Best Practice: How many systems should a master monitor?

This is something that is difficult to answer, because it mostly depends on how resource hungry the checks are and how often they run.

You can take a look here: Icinga2 at large scale

In general I would recommend running the database on a separate node, in case of the IDO db.
With the new IcingaDB (Redis+Mysql/Pgsql) the load due to db queries should decrease.

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