We performed a comparison between Icinga and Microsoft System Center based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Icinga has multiple automation and integration features. There is an API for everything and a web UI for configurations. The APIs enable you to automate tasks in Icinga. We can also use plugins to talk to the API. The Icinga Director talks to a database in the background, and you can import settings from the CMDB to all systems in Icinga."
"The drafts are easy but what I like about Icinga is that there are many add-ons that you can download."
"There's a module called Icinga Director, which helps us configure the product using an intuitive interface through clicks instead of creating a text configuration. It's very helpful for us."
"Macros and the ability to connect it to Google Maps are valuable features."
"The apply rules feature saves a lot of time."
"The best thing about the solution is how it highlights errors, the issues, and what needs my attention. The solution directs me to areas that I should look for first."
"We have found the solution to be stable."
"Icinga does the job and is fairly stable."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the ease of configuration and the easy discovery of the environment."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft System Center is its GUI (graphical user interface)."
"The deployment and asset management features are the most valuable. These are the product's main features."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it helps us manage our company's application pool, license pool, application update pool, and OS updates."
"Step-by-step documentation that clarifies the implementation procedure."
"Good for managing and administering the infrastructure."
"I like the automated features of it that let you schedule those updates and the ability of the product to focus on the specific updates, specific platforms, and products that we're interested in keeping up to date."
"Many processes could be implemented out-of-the-box, and this helped to adopt processes in areas which we lacked."
"We have found some problems with Nagios, and support isn't very responsive."
"At this time, the layout of the website is a bit difficult. It should be more user-friendly for changing the background and logos."
"It needs Trap SNMP. I saw the documentation for Zabbix, that it has its own built-in product which handles SNMP traps, and there's nothing similar in Icinga or Nagios. I think this feature is most important for me."
"The solution lacks many features important to higher-level IT management and network support."
"One thing that Icinga lacks is the capability to create advanced and customized dashboards within the tool itself."
"The tool currently fails to provide notifications to users."
"The installation and configuration are very complex."
"I think the software is quite good, but we have had problems with getting it to recognize certain areas and amend certain checks, where we needed so we would have to create backend scripts for those checks. Though, being open source, it has the support to create backend scripts, it would be better to have these scripts in-built."
"Less server consumption would help, as would better, more flexible reports."
"For me, the tool's UI seems to be too old."
"Something super important that we need is this integration via Intune Configuration Manager."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"The platform performance and responsiveness need improvement. It still demands high computing resources."
"The solution's dashboard needs improvement."
"The multi-tenancy support needs to be improved. We need to have the ability to manage several different environments from one central point of administration."
"Implementation and integration in the case of multi-tenant environments needs improvement."
Icinga is ranked 19th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 16 reviews while Microsoft System Center is ranked 29th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 18 reviews. Icinga is rated 7.6, while Microsoft System Center is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Icinga writes "A stable, scalable and cost-effective solution that helps with inbuilt scripts for easy modification". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft System Center writes "Makes user management and application management easy for users". Icinga is most compared with Zabbix, Checkmk, Nagios Core, Nagios XI and Centreon, whereas Microsoft System Center is most compared with Oracle SOA Suite. See our Icinga vs. Microsoft System Center report.
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