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Icinga addresses host and service monitoring. Icinga is a good fit for operations teams that prefer explicit monitoring checks and notification logic. Its plugin ecosystem makes it adaptable to unusual infrastructure. Flexibility comes with configuration overhead. New administrators may find its object and deployment model less immediate than turnkey SaaS monitoring.

Zabbix addresses infrastructure monitoring. Zabbix remains useful for teams needing broad infrastructure monitoring without licensing each individual metric. Templates and triggers can cover servers, networks and services in one system. Trigger tuning and template maintenance can become a project of their own. A large deployment also needs thoughtful database and proxy sizing.