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Icinga - a Re-architected Nagios fork

45 points by vimalg2 15y ago

kenny_r 15y ago
I've had the opportunity to work with Icinga during my internship last year. Nagios development has stagnated somewhat but Icinga is thriving. It is 100% compatible with all Nagios plugins and most of the configuration tools. Most notably, NConf works very well with Icinga. They reworked the old Nagios interface and offer entirely new web and mobile interfaces. I must say it's a pleasure to use.
- MPSimmons 15y ago
  Is it capable of adding new monitoring checks on the fly yet, or storing its configuration in a database? Those are things that I really want.
  - TiZon 15y ago
    Not 'on the fly' but very close. Add them, then click the recompile button and it will rewrite the configs and restart the deamon in a matter of seconds.
- seiji 15y ago
  Nagios development has stagnated somewhat Understatement of forever. Nagios is stuck in 1995 and refuses to advance. Cacti is stuck in 1996 and refuses to advance. We need a unified monitoring/trending/graphing/alerting/prediction platform for everything from servers to application level metrics. No single product or service exists enabling you to actually understand your platform performance.
wladimir 15y ago
When I needed an open source monitoring solution some time ago I eventually went with Zenoss. Nagios felt a bit clunky. Zenoss had a (IMO) better structured web interface and also more options for log-filtering/monitoring. Also it's based on Python so easier for me to extend. The only drawback of Zenoss is that it is a bit of a memory hog, which eventually became a problem as it was running on a cheap VPS... Icanga does sound promising, as it looks like it redesigned Nagios from a bag of old perl scripts to a better-integrated solution.
- sandGorgon 15y ago
  There is Shinken as well (http://www.shinken-monitoring.org/features/ http://www.shinken-monitoring.org/features/) which promises 100% compatibility with Nagios plugins... plus is written in python (https://github.com/naparuba/shinken https://github.com/naparuba/shinken). Not sure about performance comparisons
simoncpu 15y ago
Agavi FTW!
JoachimSchipper 15y ago
This has said "Error establishing a database connection" for a few minutes now. Quite ironic.
- vimalg2 15y ago
  I'm guessing this is their first HN slam. I submitted it because i found very few mentions of it via HN-search.
EgeBamyasi 15y ago
We are using Icinga to monitor stuff around our office. Its nice and robust, but sometimes you have to work around the architecture to do what you want. Like, maybe you don´t want icinga to poll data, you would rather send data to it. Anyways, Ive forked the Greplin-Nagios-Utils to address this issue and added some stuff to read from Memcache, now your super importatnt services can supply data to Memcache, Icinga will then do some haxx and poll the data when it pleases, so you will end up with the data in your frontend. Its in an early stage.. But hopefully I will have the time to make it better, faster, stronger. https://github.com/simonjohansson/greplin-nagios-utils/tree/master/checkserver_memcached https://github.com/simonjohansson/greplin-nagios-utils/tree/...
- laymil 15y ago
  You should be able to send data using passive checks. As far as I know, that has always been the model in Nagios.
  - EgeBamyasi 15y ago
    In that case I should read the documentation a bit better. Thanks.

45 points by vimalg2 15y ago

I've had the opportunity to work with Icinga during my internship last year. Nagios development has stagnated somewhat but Icinga is thriving. It is 100% compatible with all Nagios plugins and most of the configuration tools. Most notably, NConf works very well with Icinga. They reworked the old Nagios interface and offer entirely new web and mobile interfaces. I must say it's a pleasure to use.

MPSimmons 15y ago
Is it capable of adding new monitoring checks on the fly yet, or storing its configuration in a database? Those are things that I really want.
- TiZon 15y ago
  Not 'on the fly' but very close. Add them, then click the recompile button and it will rewrite the configs and restart the deamon in a matter of seconds.
seiji 15y ago
Nagios development has stagnated somewhat Understatement of forever. Nagios is stuck in 1995 and refuses to advance. Cacti is stuck in 1996 and refuses to advance. We need a unified monitoring/trending/graphing/alerting/prediction platform for everything from servers to application level metrics. No single product or service exists enabling you to actually understand your platform performance.

wladimir 15y ago

When I needed an open source monitoring solution some time ago I eventually went with Zenoss. Nagios felt a bit clunky. Zenoss had a (IMO) better structured web interface and also more options for log-filtering/monitoring. Also it's based on Python so easier for me to extend. The only drawback of Zenoss is that it is a bit of a memory hog, which eventually became a problem as it was running on a cheap VPS... Icanga does sound promising, as it looks like it redesigned Nagios from a bag of old perl scripts to a better-integrated solution.

sandGorgon 15y ago
There is Shinken as well (http://www.shinken-monitoring.org/features/ http://www.shinken-monitoring.org/features/) which promises 100% compatibility with Nagios plugins... plus is written in python (https://github.com/naparuba/shinken https://github.com/naparuba/shinken). Not sure about performance comparisons

simoncpu 15y ago

Agavi FTW!

JoachimSchipper 15y ago

This has said "Error establishing a database connection" for a few minutes now. Quite ironic.

vimalg2 15y ago
I'm guessing this is their first HN slam. I submitted it because i found very few mentions of it via HN-search.

EgeBamyasi 15y ago

We are using Icinga to monitor stuff around our office. Its nice and robust, but sometimes you have to work around the architecture to do what you want. Like, maybe you don´t want icinga to poll data, you would rather send data to it. Anyways, Ive forked the Greplin-Nagios-Utils to address this issue and added some stuff to read from Memcache, now your super importatnt services can supply data to Memcache, Icinga will then do some haxx and poll the data when it pleases, so you will end up with the data in your frontend. Its in an early stage.. But hopefully I will have the time to make it better, faster, stronger. https://github.com/simonjohansson/greplin-nagios-utils/tree/master/checkserver_memcached https://github.com/simonjohansson/greplin-nagios-utils/tree/...

laymil 15y ago
You should be able to send data using passive checks. As far as I know, that has always been the model in Nagios.
- EgeBamyasi 15y ago
  In that case I should read the documentation a bit better. Thanks.