Did Icinga drop support for Rocky Linux?

Rocky Linux Help & Support
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Hi,

I’ve been monitoring all my servers using Icinga. The server and the agents have been provided via the official Icinga repository.

It looks like the guys dropped support for RHEL and clones. Or now you have to have a paid Icinga subscription:

https://icinga.com/docs/icinga-2/latest/doc/02-installation/06-RHEL/

Any suggestions ? Free alternatives ?

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I’m not sure if I’m missing something, but in those docs it does say about installing agents for RHEL8 and later. That would suggest it’s supported still.

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There’s no free version available. The documentation explicitly says this:

A paid repository subscription is required for RHEL repositories. Get more information on icinga.com/subscription

Don’t forget to fill in the username and password section with your credentials in the local .repo file.

So it looks like I have to look for an alternative.

  • Zabbix ?
  • Nagios ?
  • Something else ?
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I personally use CheckMK, but depending on what you want in terms of monitoring, another free option is Sensu. I looked at Sensu when I was also reading about Icinga, etc. I don’t think the free one includes the web interface, but I did manage to find a free one that was basically the same as the paid one anyway and it was OK.

CheckMK is pretty good, and Nagios plugins will work with it, if CheckMK is lacking some plugins that you require, but they generally have the majority of stuff covered. Personally I’m not a fan of Zabbix, I’ve tried it a few times, and I just don’t like it. But I know a lot of people do like and use it.

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In my old $day_job, we were using this when I left back in January, 2021. In the past we had used Nagios and other tools for monitoring.

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Is Nagios still developed. Or is it some sort of zombie software like OpenOffice that’s still out there but effectively unmaintained ?

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HI microlinux,

Last year we have moved our monitoring system from Icinga to Promethues.

Monitroing Server Stack : ( Promethues + Grafana )

Agents : Tons of agents (exporter) are available for Promethues.

We are mainly using Node expoert for Linux and Windows Exporter for Windows agents.

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Here’s a little blog article that explains the situation Icinga vs. Rocky Linux: