Case Study: Sun Chemical standardizes and automates monitoring with Icinga

Sun Chemical standardizes monitoring across 3,000 hosts with Icinga

Sun Chemical, a global supplier to the graphic arts industry and a subsidiary of DIC, faced a challenge with its outdated and unsupported Icinga 1 monitoring system. The company needed a cost-effective and updated monitoring application to support its constantly changing global infrastructure and to standardize checks across its numerous servers and business units.

The solution was an upgrade to Icinga 2, implemented by Icinga. This provided a high-availability setup across multiple data centers and cloud regions, automated server discovery and monitoring through apply rules and API scripts, and integration with ServiceNow for ticketing. The results included a simplified and standardized monitoring process, enhanced security, and significant scaling from 1,000 to over 3,000 monitored hosts, including Windows servers, networking devices, and virtual machines.

Sun Chemical