# Did Icinga drop support for Rocky Linux? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\ **Created:** [February 9, 2025, 7:51am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/did-icinga-drop-support-for-rocky-linux/17484 "2025-02-09T07:51:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![microlinux](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/microlinux/32/1244_2.png) [@microlinux](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/microlinux)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 7:51am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/did-icinga-drop-support-for-rocky-linux/17484/1 "2025-02-09T07:51:44Z")
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/](https://icinga.com/docs/icinga-2/latest/doc/02-installation/06-RHEL/) Any suggestions ? Free alternatives ? ---
**Author:** ![iwalker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/iwalker/32/2599_2.png) [@iwalker](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/iwalker)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 9:06am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/did-icinga-drop-support-for-rocky-linux/17484/2 "2025-02-09T09:06:12Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![microlinux](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/microlinux/32/1244_2.png) [@microlinux](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/microlinux)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 10:02am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/did-icinga-drop-support-for-rocky-linux/17484/3 "2025-02-09T10:02:14Z")
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](https://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 ? ---
**Author:** ![iwalker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/iwalker/32/2599_2.png) [@iwalker](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/iwalker)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 10:07am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/did-icinga-drop-support-for-rocky-linux/17484/4 "2025-02-09T10:07:02Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![sspencerwire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@sspencerwire](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/sspencerwire)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 2:50pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/did-icinga-drop-support-for-rocky-linux/17484/5 "2025-02-09T14:50:37Z")
In my old $day\_job, we were using [this when I left back in January, 2021](https://docs.rockylinux.org/guides/network/librenms_monitoring_server/). In the past we had used Nagios and other tools for monitoring. ---
**Author:** ![microlinux](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/microlinux/32/1244_2.png) [@microlinux](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/microlinux)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 3:22pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/did-icinga-drop-support-for-rocky-linux/17484/6 "2025-02-09T15:22:56Z")
Is Nagios still developed. Or is it some sort of zombie software like OpenOffice that’s still out there but effectively unmaintained ? ---
**Author:** ![linuxlover](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/linuxlover/32/2227_2.png) [@linuxlover](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/linuxlover)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 5:26pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/did-icinga-drop-support-for-rocky-linux/17484/7 "2025-02-09T17:26:00Z")
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. > **[Exporters and integrations | Prometheus](https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/exporters/)** > > An open-source monitoring system with a dimensional data model, flexible query language, efficient time series database and modern alerting approach. We are mainly using Node expoert for Linux and Windows Exporter for Windows agents. ---
**Author:** ![microlinux](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/microlinux/32/1244_2.png) [@microlinux](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/microlinux)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2025, 4:14pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/did-icinga-drop-support-for-rocky-linux/17484/8 "2025-02-12T16:14:02Z")
Here’s a little blog article that explains the situation Icinga vs. Rocky Linux: > **[Icinga : Racket et discrimination ? – Le blog technique de Microlinux](https://blog.microlinux.fr/icinga-racket/)** ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/rockylinux/original/1X/91b7219eec10e30013422e4df76c1d898711a5d5.svg) [@system](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2025, 4:14pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/did-icinga-drop-support-for-rocky-linux/17484/9 "2025-04-13T16:14:04Z")
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