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Matthias Fleschütz
Teamlead IT at NanoTemper Technologies · | 2 upvotes · 134K 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  • extendable I knew Nagios for decades but it was really outdated (by its architecture) at some point.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 works
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    The standard
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    Customizable
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    The Most flexible monitoring system
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    Huge stack of free checks/plugins to choose from
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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 Observium?

It is a low-maintenance auto-discovering network monitoring platform supporting a wide range of device types, platforms and operating systems

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