icinga2
The core of our monitoring platform with a powerful configuration language and REST API. (by Icinga)
VictoriaMetrics
VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database (by VictoriaMetrics)
| icinga2 | VictoriaMetrics | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 110 | |
| 2,105 | 14,467 | |
| 0.7% | 2.5% | |
| 9.7 | 10.0 | |
| 7 days ago | 7 days ago | |
| C++ | Go | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
icinga2
Posts with mentions or reviews of icinga2.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-28.
- Linux server monitoring suggestions
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DevOps Tools Overview: Monitoring Cloud Infrastructure with CloudWatch and OpsGenie
Icinga/Icinga2
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Network monitoring tool?
something like pfense, custom router/firewall? icinga2 if i recall could possibly do that.
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My Monitoring Infrastructure
Looks like GPL2, https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2#license
VictoriaMetrics
Posts with mentions or reviews of VictoriaMetrics.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-06-25.
- 16 Essential Tools for DevOps & SRE: Monitoring & Logging Mastery
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Your Essential Toolkit for DevOps & SRE: Mastering Monitoring and Logging
Official Website: VictoriaMetrics
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Show HN: ClickStack – open-source Datadog alternative by ClickHouse and HyperDX
Thanks! If you'll hit any issues with the integration, then please file them at https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues , so we could quickly resolve them.
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Development Environment Configuration
Time Series: Greptime, Influx, Loki, Mimir, Prometheus, Tempo, Victoria Metrics
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Building Observability with ClickHouse
Yup, there is a big room for improvements there! BTW, VictoriaLogs docs are open source too [1], so we'll be more than happy receiving pull requests with improvements for the docs!
[1] https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/tree/mast...
- VictoriaLogs v1.0.0 Release
- Show HN: VictoriaLogs v1.0.0 Release
- VictoriaMetrics: Fast, cost-effective monitoring and time series database
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14 Monitoring Tools for Full-Stack Developers
VictoriaMetrics is a monitoring tool and time series database. It is open-source and has a managed version.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing icinga2 and VictoriaMetrics you can also consider the following projects:
prometheus-cpp - Prometheus Client Library for Modern C++
Zabbix - Real-time monitoring of IT components and services, such as networks, servers, VMs, applications and the cloud.
snmpcollector - A full featured Generic SNMP data collector with Web Administration Interface for InfluxDB
loki - Like Prometheus, but for logs.
sensu-go - Simple. Scalable. Multi-cloud monitoring.
jaeger - CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform