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  • "The product is inexpensive compared to other DBM products."
  • "This is an open-source solution with paid support."
  • "It's an open-source solution."
  • "We're using the free version of Icinga."
  • "Even though Icinga's financial cost is low, it is an expensive product regarding the resources required to maintain and operate it."
  • "The solution is free to use."
  • "The solution is cheap."
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    Top Answer: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.
    Top Answer:I wasn't involved with the finance side of the product. I just tested the product and gave feedback to the IT team in our company.
    Top Answer:I didn't have a problem with Icinga since I just use it for monitoring purposes. I haven't faced any issues with Icinga to date, and I think that it is a good solution. Right now, in my company… more »
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    Ranking
    9th
    out of 42 in Server Monitoring
    Views
    2,180
    Comparisons
    1,920
    Reviews
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    7.9
    23rd
    out of 42 in Server Monitoring
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    380
    Comparisons
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    Also Known As
    Icinga Cloud Monitoring
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    Overview
    Icinga monitors infrastructures of all sizes with the integrated cluster system secured by SSL, Integrates with DevOps tools and uses an object based configuration or provision on users' monitoring code through the REST API. Icinga has a lightweight and extensible web interface to keep an eye on your environment and provides modules that extend the functionality of Icinga Web 2. Additionally, it offers a fully preconfigured monitoring stack or just add an external perspective.

    Monitor your servers, containers, and applications, in high-resolution and in real-time.

    Netdata collects metrics per second and presents them in beautiful low-latency dashboards. It is designed to run on all of your physical and virtual servers, cloud deployments, Kubernetes clusters, and edge/IoT devices, to monitor your systems, containers, and applications.

    It scales nicely from just a single server to thousands of servers, even in complex multi/mixed/hybrid cloud environments, and given enough disk space it can keep your metrics for years.

    KEY FEATURES:

    • 💥 Collects metrics from 800+ integrations
      Operating system metrics, container metrics, virtual machines, hardware sensors, applications metrics, OpenMetrics exporters, StatsD, and logs.

    • 💪 Real-Time, Low-Latency, High-Resolution
      All metrics are collected per second and are on the dashboard immediately after data collection. Netdata is designed to be fast.

    • 😶‍🌫️ Unsupervised Anomaly Detection
      Trains multiple Machine-Learning (ML) models for each metric collected and detects anomalies based on the past behavior of each metric individually.

    • 🔥 Powerful Visualization
      Clear and precise visualization that allows you to quickly understand any dataset, but also to filter, slice and dice the data directly on the dashboard, without the need to learn any query language.

    • 🔔 Out of box Alerts
      Comes with hundreds of alerts out of the box to detect common issues and pitfalls, revealing issues that can easily go unnoticed. It supports several notification methods to let you know when your attention is needed.

    • 📖 systemd Journal Logs Explorer (beta, in the nightly release channel)
      Provides a systemd journal logs explorer, to view, filter and analyze system and applications logs by directly accessing systemd journal files on individual hosts and infrastructure-wide logs centralization servers.

    • 😎 Low Maintenance
      Fully automated in every aspect: automated dashboards, out-of-the-box alerts, auto-detection and auto-discovery of metrics, zero-touch machine-learning, easy scalability and high availability, and CI/CD friendly.

    • Open and Extensible
      Netdata is a modular platform that can be extended in all possible ways and it also integrates nicely with other monitoring solutions.


    Sample Customers
    Puppet Labs, Audi, Spacex, Debian, Snapdeal, McGill, RIPE Network Coordination Centre
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    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm29%
    Computer Software Company29%
    Educational Organization14%
    University14%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company19%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Comms Service Provider8%
    Government7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company34%
    Comms Service Provider14%
    Government11%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business47%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise37%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise60%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business44%
    Midsize Enterprise24%
    Large Enterprise31%
    Buyer's Guide
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    Icinga is ranked 9th in Server Monitoring with 16 reviews while Netdata is ranked 23rd in Server Monitoring. Icinga is rated 7.6, while Netdata is rated 0.0. 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, Icinga is most compared with Zabbix, Checkmk, Nagios Core, Nagios XI and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, whereas Netdata is most compared with Zabbix, Checkmk, New Relic and InfluxDB.

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