Network Monitoring
Gain complete insight into your network’s performance and resource utilization with our comprehensive network monitoring solution.Understand which components operate optimally and which might be over- or underused, empowering you to take proactive measures.
Inspect different kinds of network components
Networking Monitoring Equipment
Most IT environments often incorporate network devices from multiple vendors. With Icinga you monitor many different network devices with one single tool. You see at any time the current state and utilization of every component in one web interface. Our solution offers real-time visibility into the status and resource consumption of every component through one web interface. It detects errors and anomalies instantly, ensuring you are alerted to issues before they escalate. This robust network device monitoring not only optimizes current operations but also helps you plan future capacity requirements.
Generic SNMP Monitoring
The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) remains the industry standard for monitoring network interfaces and devices. The data is provided by Object Identifiers (OID), where each OID represents one specific metric. Icinga periodically collects multiple OIDs of your choice over SNMP. The information is used to determine the state of each interface, identify errors and keep an eye on bandwidth usage of every interface.
Common monitoring checks include:
- Availability and state of network interfaces
- Inbound and outbound traffic throughput
- Errors of network interfaces
- Discards of network interfaces
- CPU load
- Memory usage
- Disk utilization
- Hardware health
By leveraging these network monitoring metrics, you gain a precise, actionable overview of your network’s performance.
Vendor-Specific SNMP Monitoring
Many network hardware vendors provide additional SNMP data beyond the standard metrics. Utilizing vendor-specific plugins, Icinga simplifies the process of monitoring your devices without the hassle of handling custom OIDs. Our extensive collection of plugins covers a wide range of vendors, ensuring that your network monitoring strategy remains both flexible and comprehensive.
Monitoring SNMP Traps with Logstash and Icinga
In addition to regular polling, network devices can proactively send alert messages via SNMP Traps—such as notifications when a machine overheats. Given the hundreds of potential events across different hardware, managing this data effectively is crucial.
Icinga integrates seamlessly with Logstash to receive and filter SNMP Traps from multiple devices. Thanks to Logstash’s powerful processing capabilities, even a high volume of events is handled with ease.
The dedicated Icinga Output Plugin for Logstash dynamically updates the status of hosts and services based on incoming alerts, and can even create new entries on demand.
Monitoring Network Interfaces
Icinga continuously monitors both physical and virtual server network interfaces to detect availability issues and potential errors. By collecting detailed network monitoring metrics – such as bandwidth usage – and storing the data in a time series database of your choice, our solution provides the essential information needed for effective capacity planning and trend analysis. This ensures that you are always prepared for future network demands.
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