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Monitor Your Entire Infrastructure

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Icinga - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Icinga overview

What is Icinga?

The Icinga 6-in-1 stack covers all aspects of monitoring your entire infrastructure.

Infrastructure Monitoring

Availability, performance and trends: Know the state of everything at all times. Be flexible when building and scaling your monitoring setup.

Monitoring Automation

Manage massive amounts of monitoring objects. Use the Director or other modules to automatically import and synchronize all kinds of data.

Cloud Monitoring

Monitor private, public, or hybrid clouds all in one monitoring system, and stay independent from your cloud provider with your monitoring.

Metrics & Logs

Our integrations allow you to collect, store, visualize and combine performance and metrics data on the way. Get alerted on patterns.

Analytics

Discover relations and patterns. Create reports with your existing data for different aspects. Filter certain servers/VMs to get dedicated insights.

Notifications

Having knowledge is the first step when solving incidents. Icinga notifies you when it makes sense through any channel you want.

Integrations

Icinga collects and sends data from and to many of your existing DevOps tools, enabling you to create a tailored monitoring solution that perfectly fits your needs.

Modules

Extend Icinga with custom views, reports, business processes and more features.

Director

Manage your monitoring configuration through the web interface and automate it.

Plugins

Search through thousands of plugins that you can use to monitor your entire infrastructure. Explore Icinga Exchange.

Key benefits of using Icinga

Across your entire infrastructure, Icinga gives you the power to watch any host and any application. It’s for detailed analysis as well as for quick actions. It’s for drawing conclusions and gaining confidence.

Connect and Observe
Connect your whole landscape with the Icinga Stack and get full visibility. Monitor your data center as well as your private, public, or hybrid clouds – all in one monitoring system.

Visualize and Understand
Collect, store and visualize metrics on the way. Create business processes and reports for different aspects to discover relations and patterns. Filter servers/VMs to get dedicated insights and build your own customized dashboards.

Get Notified
Notifications guarantee a timely recognition of critical operating states. Icinga notifies you through any channel you want. Email, Slack, PagerDuty or else: Alerts pave the way to a wholesome incident management and recovery process.

Automate
The larger the number of objects to be checked the more effort is required. Icinga is built to monitor thousands of servers and services, and masters ways to automate all areas of it.

Integrations
Icinga collects and sends data from and to many of your existing DevOps tools, enabling you to create a tailored monitoring solution that fits your needs.

Icinga for Enterprises
The Icinga Stack is an enterprise-ready monitoring solution that integrates easily. Combine high availability clusters with a distributed setup for massive amounts of data and boundless freedom.

Single Icinga
One single Icinga instance can already deal with a large amount of servers. Icinga comes with a built-in cluster mechanism that spreads the workload of your monitoring checks across multiple servers.

High Availability
Connect two Icinga nodes into one zone to increase reliability. With this high available Icinga setup you are well prepared for failures.

Workload Distribution
Manage massive amounts of monitoring objects by connecting additional nodes to distribute the load. We call them Satellites.

Large Infrastructure
Monitor thousands of machines of your large, heterogeneous and distributed environment. Collect data from specific network segments and classify your monitoring.

Icinga Agents
Use Icinga as an Agent on your machines to monitor local resources. The Icinga Agent goes easy on resources and reports results automatically.

Starting price

Free

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Icinga’s user interface

Ease of use rating:

Icinga reviews

Overall rating

4.7

/5

44

Positive reviews

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%

Rating breakdown
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend9.02/10
Rating distribution

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Pros
“My experience with Icinga has really been fantastic. It's a powerful and easy to use network monitoring tool.”
AK

Andrew K.

IT Manager

“Its powerful analytics help us discover very useful insights about our network infrastructure.”
AC

Abigail C.

Sales and Marketing Coordinator

“Great and fantastic monitoring tool with all the monitoring features.”
AK

Andrew K.

IT Manager

Cons
“There's some complexity during the installation, There's also lack of extensions to power it up and their team isn't updating it frequently.”
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Yasser A.

Chief Executive Officer

“But for some of the issues, it is very hard to find resolutions faster.”
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vijay k.

software engineer

“If you install Icinga in RHEL system you must to pay a subscription in order to access to It repository for update the software.”
SB

Stefano B.

IT Service Manager Operation and Monitoring

Who uses Icinga?

Based on 44 verified user reviews.

Company size

Small Businesses

Enterprises

Midsize Businesses

Top industries

Information Technology and Services
Telecommunications
Industrial Automation
Insurance
Others

Use cases

Network Monitoring

Icinga's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from Icinga users:

Server monitoring
Real-Time monitoring
Alerts/Notifications
Dashboard
Remote monitoring & management
Web traffic reporting

All Icinga features

Features rating:

User management
Search/Filter
Performance metrics
Multi-Location monitoring
Maintenance scheduling
IP address monitoring
Incident management
Downtime tracking
Access controls/permissions
Third-Party integrations
Network analysis
Event logs
Uptime reporting
Troubleshooting
Threshold alerts
SSL security
Simple network management protocol (snmp)
Service level agreement (sla) management
Alerts/Escalation
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & statistics
Real-Time data
Performance monitoring
API
Network resource management
Network monitoring
Application management
Audit trail
Bandwidth monitoring
Capacity management
Configuration management
Diagnostic tools
Data visualization
Customizable reports

Icinga awards

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Icinga pricing

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User opinions about Icinga price and value

Value for money rating:

To see what individual users think of Icinga's price and value, check out the review snippets below.

“My experience with Icinga has really been fantastic. It's a powerful and easy to use network monitoring tool.”
AK

Andrew K.

IT Manager

“Its powerful analytics help us discover very useful insights about our network infrastructure.”
AC

Abigail C.

Sales and Marketing Coordinator

Icinga integrations (25)

Integrations rated by users

We looked at 44 user reviews to identify which products are mentioned as Icinga integrations and how users feel about them.

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Grafana

Integration rating: 4.0 (3)

To represent data graphically for easier interpretation. Troubleshooting the network and services.

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Systems analyst

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Integration rating: 5.0 (1)

With the two products integrated, it gets easier for us to collaborate when working on our infrastructure.

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Nancy S.

Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring Supervisor

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Integration rating: 5.0 (1)

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Integration rating: 4.0 (1)

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Integration rating: 4.0 (1)

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Icinga support options

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

Email/Help Desk
FAQs/Forum
Knowledge Base
Phone Support
24/7 (Live rep)
Chat

Training options

Documentation
In Person
Live Online
Webinars
Videos

Icinga FAQs

Q. What type of pricing plans does Icinga offer?

Icinga has the following pricing plans:
Pricing model: Free, Subscription, Open Source
Free Trial: Available | (No Credit Card required)

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Q. Who are the typical users of Icinga?

Icinga has the following typical customers:
Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Non Profit, Public Administrations, Small Business


Q. What languages does Icinga support?

Icinga supports the following languages:
Catalan, English, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian


Q. Does Icinga offer an API?

Yes, Icinga has an API available for use.


Q. What other apps does Icinga integrate with?

Icinga integrates with the following applications:
Jira, BigPanda, Elastic Observability, Zenduty, Grafana, Hosted Graphite, OpsGenie, Elastic Stack, AlertOps, Puppet Enterprise, SIGNL4, PagerDuty, Graylog, ServiceNow, ilert, Terraform, Ansible Automation Platform


Q. What level of support does Icinga offer?

Icinga offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat

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