The thought of deploying Icinga with Chef is an exciting prospect. You get all the benefits of the flexible monitoring Icinga provides with all the reliability and scalability of Chef’s configuration management. So, when I heard that Icinga had ditched…
Freudenberg IT, FIT, was looking for a monitoring tool that met industry standards, had ongoing support, and could scale at a global level. Read on to learn why they chose Icinga and why they chose Shadow-Soft’s Icinga Support.
Monitoring 100% of your IT systems and infrastructure can be quite a challenge. In this article, Nick explains why an enterprise monitoring strategy offers the best approach for managing a complex IT environment and delivering a great customer experience.
Icinga Director is a module for Icinga Web 2, designed to make Icinga 2 configuration handling faster and easier.
Icinga supports a variety of third-party configuration management systems and open source tools. Here are five powerful integrations to supercharge your Icinga deployment.
As a partner that sells and provides exclusive Icinga support in the US, we have learned through experience that Icinga 2 isn’t a fit for all organizations. In this article, we share seven examples where we would not recommend Icinga…
It’s no secret that most organizations use 10+ products to monitor everything from servers and devices to networks, traffic, applications and databases. Not all monitoring tools are the same; some are stronger in certain areas than others. In this article our resident Icinga technician, Jeff Williams, will highlight the areas where Icinga’s open source monitoring tool is strong.
Why Select Icinga as an Alternative to Nagios? When it comes to Open Source network and IT monitoring solutions, we see a real benefit in choosing Icinga over Nagios. As you may know, in 2009, a group of Nagios community…
Every business is at a different place with their monitoring systems. A surprising number of companies have no monitoring at all, while a second group has a monitoring system that they are generally unhappy with. A third group has a…
It may not initially be obvious why your Puppet configuration management and your Icinga monitoring should be coordinated since they are products in such different disciplines. After a bit of thought and examination it should become more and more clear…