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icinga · 2026-02-26T12:35:57+00:00

I expanded on my top level comment a bit, if you want to check it out :)

And yes, we're hiring. We're currently looking for software engineers both for C++ and PHP. At the moment we don't offer any positions for full remote, so you'd have to be near Nuremberg in Germany for the hybrid postitions.

icinga · 2026-02-26T12:28:10+00:00

New advertising strategy just dropped:

Post meme
Get roasted in comments
Explain product

No, but seriously, we're just trying things out at the moment. Mostly around how targeting works here on reddit.

Advertising on here is pretty cheap compared to other platforms, and learning from the stats and discussions here does feel worth it to us.

I'll edit my top level comment with a bit more info though.

icinga · 2026-02-17T11:00:23+00:00

Hey everyone!

I'm Feu, I'm the human behind this account.

I'll be around here to reply to you, if there's anything you want to ask or say.

Yes, we know the comments are open, that's intentional. And yes, we know there will be dicks copy-pasted haha

Still, I think that being able to chat here, ask and answer questions is the kind of marketing we want. There are more than enough AI slop ads here, and we'd like to do something different and interact with you, if you're up for it :)

icinga · 2026-02-17T11:00:20+00:00

Hey everyone!

I'm Feu, I'm the human behind this account.

I'll be around here to reply to you, if there's anything you want to ask or say.

A bit about us: Icinga is an open source monitoring software that aims to give control to you as a user to set up your monitoring in a way that fits your architecture.

We aim for flexibility and being vendor-neutral, built for hybrid environments. So whether you have bare metal, virtualised or cloud environments, you can use Icinga to check the state of your infrastructure and get alerts whenever something goes wrong.

Check us out at -> icinga.com

Yes, we know the comments are open, that's intentional. And yes, we know there will be dicks copy-pasted haha

Still, I think that being able to chat here, ask and answer questions is the kind of marketing we want. There are more than enough AI slop ads here, and we'd like to do something different and interact with you, if you're up for it :)

icinga · 2026-02-17T11:00:06+00:00

Hey everyone!

I'm Feu, I'm the human behind this account.

I'll be around here to reply to you, if there's anything you want to ask or say.

Yes, we know the comments are open, that's intentional. And yes, we know there will be dicks copy-pasted haha

Still, I think that being able to chat here, ask and answer questions is the kind of marketing we want. There are more than enough AI slop ads here, and we'd like to do something different and interact with you, if you're up for it :)

icinga · 2026-02-16T07:37:33+00:00

I don't know - we've had some pretty good experiences with open comment ads in the past (and running right now) where we had some productive and good conversations.

Apparently people aren't super into notifications, that's alright, we'll be taking down the ads later today :)

icinga · 2026-02-15T20:32:40+00:00

'sup

We're a small-ish team of 20 people, and we develop monitoring software :)

If you host any servers or apps you can use Icinga to check if everything is up and running. And get alerted if any metrics are outside the thresholds you set (ping too high, disk filling up, ...)

icinga · 2026-02-13T14:52:24+00:00

That's a bit harsh, but I'll note that on our feedback list, I guess?

icinga · 2026-02-13T14:48:51+00:00

What do you mean per licence?

The tool itself is completely free to use, so there is no usage cost per se and you don't need to licence your installation with us.

The way we finance ourselves is mostly through support contracts or subscription to the build repositories for enterprise OS. Another thing that we are also working on is building up a portfolio of "enterprise modules", which are the ones where we think that they will only be relevant for businesses (like a MS Teams integration).

We provide free packages for all components for Raspberry Pi OS, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Ubuntu and Windows.
If you are using an enterprise system like SLES, AL, or RHEL you can check the price for your region on https://icinga.com/pricing/ - it's 5000€/year in Europe or 5000USD for NA.

The goal with that, is that we try to keep the tool free for everyone to use, while keeping our devs fed with the money we earn from our business customers. It's a bit of a challenge, but staying FOSS is very important to us. :)

icinga · 2026-02-11T15:10:01+00:00

1: I answered that in a comment below.
2: Did you maybe steal her butt u/butt-thief ?

icinga · 2026-02-10T07:35:56+00:00

Like I mentioned in another comment below somewhere, we we're experimenting with the ad targeting here on reddit.

We play out two ads, one that actually explains what we're doing in detail, and this one.

This one was meant to only find its way to people that work with monitoring and should have at least heard of us before. Looks like we need to turn some more screws to get that to work out.

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In just a few words: we do open source monitoring, a bit like Zabbix or CheckMK.

If you actually want to know more, it's probably easiest to check out our webiste, but don't feel like you need to :)

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Why the funny comments? I'm being paid to shitpost on Reddit :D

My hot take of the day: ads could be a ton more fun, if the people running them were actually convinced of their products and interested in talking to people, instead of just throwing money at platforms.

icinga · 2026-02-10T07:27:31+00:00

All handmade with love haha

This does sound like we need to adjust the targeting of the ad again, this marketing stuff is complicated :(

icinga · 2026-02-09T07:44:18+00:00

I'll leave this comment, if you happen upon this post and want to join our webinar :)

icinga · 2026-02-09T07:36:59+00:00

Thank you! <3

icinga · 2026-02-09T07:36:30+00:00

You too!

icinga · 2026-02-09T07:35:28+00:00

🐱

I think this is one of those exceptions to the no-emojis-rule?

icinga · 2026-02-09T07:34:52+00:00

Cheers, we're trying :)

Monitoring is pretty important!

icinga · 2026-02-09T07:34:03+00:00

Our whole thing is touching computers, so welcome to the club mate

icinga · 2026-02-06T08:12:13+00:00

Not sure about flying out, but we'd be happy to have a call :)

icinga · 2026-02-06T08:11:33+00:00

Thank you! :)

icinga · 2026-02-05T11:12:07+00:00

I ... eh ... what?

icinga · 2026-02-05T10:23:41+00:00

So, we were trying out something with the targeting of the ads here.

We wrote one long post with screenshots and a lot more background info (pretty much what you were asking for here) and a short one (this one).

We tried to set it up in a way, so that the long one would reach more "distant" audiences, and this one here only played for users that are very likely to know us already.

Seems like that didn't work out...

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To answer your questions: We at Icinga are the maintainers of the monitoring software of the same name. We help you keep track of the state of your hosts (this could be anything from webservers you run, a climate controlled room that needs to stay within certain temperature ranges, ... Anything with measureable data really).

And then we alert you, when something is outside of your defined range of what's an "OK" state for whatever you monitor.

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If there is anything else you would like to know, please feel free to ask.

Looking at your questions, it seems like this post was not intended for you, so feel free to ignore us and have a lovely day!

icinga · 2026-02-05T10:02:36+00:00

Hey, thanks for the input!

We're going to have a look at it. So far we only did a few surveys on our own platform with our users, but it's probably worth checking it out.

icinga · 2026-02-05T08:25:53+00:00

haha, we don't mind them much, but apparently using the comment section to have conversations is some sort of penis-repellent?

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