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Matthias Fleschütz
Teamlead IT at NanoTemper Technologies · | 2 upvotes · 141.6K views
- free open source
- modern interface and architecture
- large community
- extendable I knew Nagios for decades but it was really outdated (by its architecture) at some point. That's why Icinga started first as a fork, not with Icinga2 it is completely built from scratch but backward-compatible with Nagios plugins. Now it has reached a state with which I am confident.
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- It just works53
- The standard28
- Customizable12
- The Most flexible monitoring system8
- Huge stack of free checks/plugins to choose from1
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- Error tracking8
- Monitoring7
- Easy setup7
- Log management7
- Real-time application health6
- Alerting6
- Application performance6
- exception tracking5
- Application Performance management2
- Good for .NET and Windows Server1
- Great APM with integrated log & exception management1
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What is Nagios?
Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring program written in C and
released under the GNU General Public License.
What is Shinken?
Shinken's main goal is to give users a flexible architecture for their monitoring system that is designed to scale to large environments. Shinken is backwards-compatible with the Nagios configuration standard and plugins. It works on any operating system and architecture that supports Python, which includes Windows, GNU/Linux and FreeBSD.
What is Stackify?
Stackify offers the only developers-friendly innovative cloud based solution that fully integrates application performance management (APM) with error and log. Allowing them to easily monitor, detect and resolve application issues faster
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