Icinga vs. Nagios Core

Icinga

21 Reviews and Ratings

Nagios Core

166 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Icinga	Score7.8 out of 10	N/A	Icinga is an open source network monitoring platform. It includes automation, modularized integration packages, and prebuilt alerts and reporting capabilities.	N/A
Nagios Core	Score8.6 out of 10	N/A	Nagios provides monitoring of all mission-critical infrastructure components. Multiple APIs and community-build add-ons enable integration and monitoring with in-house and third-party applications for optimized scaling.	N/A

Pricing

Icinga

Nagios Core

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Single License: Free
Single License: Free

Pricing Offerings
Icinga	Nagios Core
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	Yes

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Icinga	Nagios Core
Considered Both Products	Icinga GmbH Andre Zielinski IT-Administrator in Information Technology at g.on experience gmbh (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Icinga PRTG was the solution that was implemented before. As Icinga is Open Source we saved the licensing fee, as we ran out of free checks. I also had knowledge in Icinga so we switched over. Nagios is inferior to Icinga in my opinion, as Icinga has the better Web UI, which I use the … Incentivized Helpful? Matthew Goodhall infastructure consultant in Information Technology at Vetasi Limited (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Icinga Installation and initial configuration is straight forward. However the system can grow in complexity very quickly, if not managed correctly. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Icinga Icinga was initially a fork of Nagios. Over time, the configuration language was replaced with something more programmatic. This configuration language is one of the big sellers of this product. It allows flexible, quick configuration of large sets of hosts and services with … Incentivized Helpful? Gabriel Ortiz Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Engineering at Agari (Computer & Network Security, 51-200 employees) Chose Icinga While Icinga holds its own against old stalwarts like Nagios and Zabbix, it simply can't compete with the new generation of SaaS service/server monitoring software in terms of ease of use, feature-completeness, integration with things like Cloudwatch, CloudHealth, New Relic, … Incentivized Helpful? Jamin Becker System Administrator in Information Technology at SPX FLOW, Inc. (Financial Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Icinga There are two main competitors of Icinga in my opinion, Nagios, and NetFlow based monitoring solutions. Both are good, Icinga, is a more refined version of Nagios with a much better API and backwards compatibility to the platform. If you are running Nagios, you can transfer … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Icinga Icinga is better than Nagios because of its nicer user interface. New Relic can monitor CPU/memory and disk usage, but it's more of a performance and application troubleshooting tool rather than monitoring. Incentivized Helpful?	Nagios Enterprises Verified User Chose Nagios Core We selected Nagios because of the size of its community. We've used some of the others in the field over the past few years, Nagios had the best features out of the box coupled with it's following made it an easy selection. Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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User Ratings
	Icinga	Nagios Core
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (7 ratings)	8.5 (44 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (1 ratings)	9.9 (3 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	4.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	7.7 (9 ratings)