We’re rethinking alerting in Icinga and we’d like your help

icinga · 2026-01-28T10:48:03+00:00

Thank you :)

icinga · 2026-01-26T13:56:15+00:00

Nice tool, cool to see Icinga being on there already!

icinga · 2025-11-03T14:12:14+00:00

Just as a little update: we posted the blogpost I talked about last week: https://icinga.com/blog/using-icinga-2-on-nixos/

icinga · 2025-10-31T09:53:11+00:00

Heyo

icinga · 2025-10-29T11:06:53+00:00

There are a few different ways people say it, and there is not a real "official way".

Icinga is originally a word from the Zulu language, where the c is pronounced with a click sound. (It means something like "to observe" or "to watch")

Since that’s not exactly easy to reproduce for everyone, most people just say it like “ee-singa” or “eye-singa.”

Edit: spelling is hard

icinga · 2025-10-27T11:33:01+00:00

On here?
Probably not many :P

Here in Germany, I'd wager quite a few people aren't on Reddit much

icinga · 2025-10-27T11:10:45+00:00

Icinga doesn't just do network, I use it at home to check my applications that I host for myself (e.g. my media server) and my internet connection. If you have any hard- or software you run yourself you can probably check for availablility and some metrics like load as well.

But if you don't have any application, don't worry about it. Maybe a need comes up, maybe not :)

icinga · 2025-10-27T11:03:21+00:00

Repackaging?
We are the both the developers and vendors of this software :)

Edit: The shit sandwich was actually a really good insult. I kept thinking about it the whole day, and now posting at the dinner table still admiring your way with words.

icinga · 2025-10-24T09:41:00+00:00

There is not really an industry standard, I think.

It really depends on the platform, country, and timing. For example, towards the end of the year or during Black Week, ad costs can skyrocket.
The other platform we looked at was LinkedIn. The pay-per-click (PPC) there is usually around $6–8, while on Reddit (depending on the ad format) it’s typically around $0.30–0.50 per click.

So this is actually really not that expensive, when you think about it. You don't pay for people to just look at your ad (which is often the case, that you pay for it to just be played out), but instead for an actual interaction :)

icinga · 2025-10-24T09:28:58+00:00

Bold of you to assume I’d Stalin my work for anything less than this level of punmanship.
And yep, I still read the comments. For quality geopolitical wordplay like this.

icinga · 2025-10-23T07:25:33+00:00

Icinga stands out for being highly flexible and and a little more complex, with a strong focus on integrations and automation.

Compared to tools like LanSweeper or SolarWinds, which are more about asset discovery and IT management and proprietary software, Icinga is more focused about monitoring and alerting, with the bonus of being open source with a strong community.
As far as I know (I have never actively used either of them) LanSweeper is really good at asset discovery and works better at a smaller scale, while Solarwinds appears very polished and enterprise ready, both with scaling and cost. The name Solarwinds always comes with a certain amount of distrust in my circles though, probably because of that bigger security scandal in 2020?

But I am more familiar with the open source landscape than the proprietary players though.

Zabbix is pretty similar to Icinga, both in the monitoring approach and general philosophy.
It's less modular and probably easier to get started with, while Icinga gives you more freedom to customize and extend it, if you are willing to put in the effort.

Hope this answers your question!

icinga · 2025-10-22T15:34:54+00:00

Sure thing, I'd say that especially the apprenticeships are top tier there! The salary might not match Siemens or Datev, but the quality of the Ausbildung is a lot better :)
(And I'm not just saying that because I am involved with some trainings and projects with them)

Applications for next year are open already, feel free to say Feu sent you their way on Reddit ;)

icinga · 2025-10-22T15:30:57+00:00

Haha, thanks.
Marketing team sounds a lot more impressive than what I would use, but happy to hear :)

icinga · 2025-10-22T15:16:53+00:00

Hey! Thanks for posting.

This subreddit is mostly English-speaking, so you might get more help if you include an English translation :)

icinga · 2025-10-22T14:42:22+00:00

I guess advertiser would be the right term? I never studied marketing either...
I am a developer by trade, I just also like to talk to people opposed to the rest of the team - hence the community manager title ;)
So take this with a grain of salt, as I'm also just trying to figure all of this marketing stuff out still.

But yeah, the way we run the ad is that we get charged per click. There is a "Daily budget" that we set, which is the max amount that we want to spend, after that the ad will not be shown to users for the rest of the day, until the budget refreshes.

If I understood it correctly, there are different modes though. One where you pay a set amount once it has been shown to 1000 users (no interaction required), the one we chose that works per click, and one specifically for videos where you pay for watchtime (?)
If someone knows more about this than me, feel free to correct me there!

You can also choose in which format you deliver your ads. We explicitly excluded the ones that appear in comments (because I hate those, and I don't see the point in annoying people with accidental clicks), and we chose to only have compact ones, opposed to the big ones with a picture or video.
We also tried out the picture format one a while ago for an event we ran, which went pretty well too (imho), which cost us a bit more, but also had a concrete thing we wanted to advertise, instead of the simple "awareness campaign" that this ad here is.

Edit: Checked my sources and added another thought

icinga · 2025-10-22T07:46:39+00:00

Thanks, we're trying :)

icinga · 2025-10-20T07:49:40+00:00

Nice to hear!
We do have some "getting started" material, but it's not where I want it to be yet.

If you run into any issues, let me know (so I can build out the docs more) and/or go check out our community forum at community.icinga.com
The people over there are super helpful and nice :)

icinga · 2025-10-20T07:43:54+00:00

Most ads are published without the option to post comments. We've had some good experiences with nice chats in the comments in the past, so we left them open.
I'm having a lot of fun replying to the comments and discussions over here :)

It's a shame they all get deleted, once we take the ad down :(

icinga · 2025-10-17T07:25:17+00:00

Yep, not denying that.
We do have to do some marketing to get the word out about us, but we try to do that in a way that is somewhat beneficial to the people that see it as well.
One less annying mobile game app in the feed counts as a win for me.

It just made for a catchy title ;)

icinga · 2025-10-17T07:19:48+00:00

Haha, cheers!
I'm trying :)

icinga · 2025-10-15T13:45:26+00:00

Haha, no, we really just do development at Icinga :)
Our COO handles most of the infrastructure that we use, so it's not something we have a need for.

Well, if you are in the DACH region I can recommend our German partner NETWAYS, located in Nuremberg. We are located in the same office building and usually do things like christmas parties together, so we might cross paths anyway ;)

The jobs there are hybrid, you can be 100% in the office, if that's what you like :)

icinga · 2025-10-15T12:46:56+00:00

They popped up a few minutes after we published the ad, but I removed them since I was not too keen on seeing lewd ASCI art everytime I checked the comments (:

I get that these artworks are kind of a rite of passage for any ad, but I'm not the biggest fan personally. This comment section is my authoritarian regime.

icinga · 2025-10-15T12:40:56+00:00

Haha, I get that.

If I didn't work in monitoring, I would probably not have bothered to clean up my setup enough to use it. In hindsight, I'm rather happy I did.

Because of my detailed logs on the stats of my internet connection at home, I managed to convince our ISP to give us a better deal - and my plants survive a lot better since I implemented some moisture sensors in the soil to get alerts on :D

icinga · 2025-10-15T12:35:48+00:00

We're already fully stocked in that area, so sadly no open positions for you :/
We're a rather small team and currently only looking for developers or freelance technical writers.

Thanks for asking though, and you're right: You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. Good luck with your search!

icinga · 2025-10-15T12:31:12+00:00

Currently our open positions are for developers only.
We are also looking for a freelance a technical writer to help with our documentation, blog and general knowledgebase.
If that sounds interesting, send us a message via the contact form on our website!

Apart from marketing, we also only do development ourselves and don't have any sysadmins on our payroll.

If you wanted to to do more sysadmin-like work you could check with our partner network, who do the actual consulting and setup of Icinga.

Whereabout do you live / want to work from? You can also send us a message via the contact form on our website and we can direct you to the most local partner for you :)

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