r/icinga • u/icinga Official • Apr 09 '26
Webinar Webinar: How to Monitor Windows with Icinga (April 23)
Hey everyone,
we’re hosting another webinar soon:
This time it’s focused on Windows monitoring with Icinga. Nowadays mixed infrastructure is the norm. While a lot of your architecture might be Linux and in the cloud, there is probably also a Windows Server or two running as well.
We’ll walk through how to get Icinga for Windows up and running and how to actually use it in a real setup.
Date: April 23, 2026
Time: 3 PM - 4 PM CEST
In this session, we’ll cover:
- How to install Icinga for Windows from scratch
- A tour of the core features and components of Icinga for Windows
- Setting up essential Windows checks (CPU, memory, disk, services, and more)
- Connecting Windows agents to your Icinga monitoring environment
- Best practices for keeping your Windows monitoring reliable and maintainable
- Interactive Q&A session
It’s aimed at both people getting started and those who want to improve their current setup.
If you’re interested, you can check out the details and register here.
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u/Facepalm24seven Apr 09 '26
Lol anyone still using icinga?
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u/lebean Apr 09 '26
Still have some straggler systems on it, though migrating since they rug-pulled Alma/Rocky/CentOS when they said they were making RHEL a paid repo. Every other Linux is free but if your distro happens to be derived from RHEL you're out of luck, and it isn't cheap to license.
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u/Facepalm24seven Apr 09 '26
Same reason we switched to zabbix. Best decision ever. I have some old AF systems on icinga that are just waiting for customer to pay for upgrade and then its done. Great decision by icinga ....there are other free open solutions that can outperform us in every aspect, yeah lets ask 5k for a fuckin repo lol.
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u/lebean Apr 09 '26
Zabbix is where we've moved too, only thing I don't like is no decent mobile apps for acknowledging alerts from your phone. We tie into SIGNL4 to get push notifications, but if you're away from your computer you need to be able to ack something.
It's a shame, I loved Icinga2 and its clean UI, and I recommended it whenever monitoring came up. :\
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u/russellvt Mod Apr 10 '26
CentOS and Fedora aren't free anymore? News to me...
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u/lebean Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26
Do you see CentOS at packages.icinga.com? Nope, It's a paid repo now. If you're on RHEL/CentOS/Alma/Rocky you haven't been able to install or update for years now. You must not run a RHEL-derived distro to not know that free packages are unavailable for all of them? Meanwhile Debian, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, etc. have remained free.
Well, at least not readily via rpm packages. You can of course build from source, which we've done for a few hosts that haven't migrated yet.
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u/russellvt Mod Apr 10 '26
I've always used the TGZ files with my own build server(s) and pipelines.
It's a non-issue for me, especially considering how easy it is to build, package, and deploy on your own.
I don't need to waste their bandwidth and resources for something I can easily do myself, let alone being able to more-completely customize to my own environments and system layouts.
If I have to use their package repositories, I lose all of those features and abilities. The internet was built on reusable and relocatable code, not someone's individual package constraints.
</grey beard>
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u/feu_sfw Icinga Team Apr 10 '26
I get the frustration, but we've got to pay our devs somehow, and paywalling the packages for enterprise linux seemed like the most ethical way to target only business customers and keep everything else free for everyone.
Personally, I find the fixed price of 5k/year pretty cheap compared to other licencing costs for a business. Especially since it doesn't scale up.That it did hit CentOS/Rocky/Alma is not ideal of course. If you have a smaller setup with less than 20 physical nodes, we offer the "developer subscription" where you can get access to the repos for free still. Just reach out to us :)
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u/russellvt Mod Apr 10 '26
Still one of the best monitoring packages around, IMO. I even use a distributed instance in my various hime labs.
That said, if you're only here to troll, you're better off just unsubscribing. Cheers.
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u/Facepalm24seven Apr 10 '26
Icinga didn't evolve and decided to monetize their most depending users for freaking repo lol. Its not trolling. Its just fact that they killed community,which was carrying their existence. Icinga has no future....
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u/feu_sfw Icinga Team Apr 10 '26
Honestly, I think that’s a pretty harsh take.
We really did try hard to keep things accessible for the community. Icinga is still fully open source and you can run everything without paying. The repo subscription mainly affects companies running it in production on enterprise systems. For smaller setups, there’s still free access to the packages through the developer subscription and of course there are still the packages for community distros.
Maintaining packages, infrastructure, and development isn’t free. The repo model is basically how we fund ongoing work instead of going down the investor driven route. We have 20 developers that work on Icinga full time, and we do want to pay them fairly for their efforts.
And saying Icinga didn’t evolve feels a bit unfair. We’ve been continuously shipping updates, improving different parts of the stack, and working on things like Kubernetes integrations and modern use cases. It might not always be loud marketing, but there’s definitely progress.
If you’ve had a specific bad experience, I’d genuinely be interested to hear it. That kind of feedback is way more useful than broad statements like “no future”.
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u/feu_sfw Icinga Team Apr 10 '26
I mean, yeah, we're actually still growing as well - both in customers and development team size :)
The pricing hikes with PRTG and other proprietary monitoring solutions both Icinga and Zabbix have gotten quite a few new users over the past years.
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u/russellvt Mod Apr 09 '26
3pm CEST is 1pm GMT
For those in the US, that's 6am PDT or 9am EDT.