Over 3 days, coffee and pizza, they nutted out some cool new developments, to name just 3 of about 25 new ideas:

- an integrated module for existing graphing solutions

- detailed plans of the upcoming core architecture

- roadmap for 2011

All these and more will be packed into the new release coming on 6 October, to be presented in person at the 5th Open Source Monitoring Conference. In Nuremberg from 6 -7 October, the team will run a 2 hour workshop full of surprises.

Pretty exciting, as Icinga will be there alongside a heap of open source monitoring greats the likes of Michael Medin (Creator of NSClient++), Jörg Möllenkamp (Solaris Developer) and Wolfgang Barth (Author of the first Nagios handbook). We hope to see you there and we will keep you posted about all the cool new developments on the Icinga project!

We think this is a great success for our young project and also an indication for a growing community. Thanks to everybody using and supporting Icinga.

50,000…. We are coming!

We’ve tried it in words, we’ve tried it on YouTube and now we’ve tabled it! Thanks to a clever suggestion made by an Icinga user – kudos to Dorian Gray!

Check out the Feature Comparison Table, which puts the latest Icinga 1.0.3, Nagios 3.2.1 and Nagios XI side by side. But as always, the best way to compare is to try it for yourself- download it and let us know what you think.

Rune Darrud- Icinga testing and contributor
Rune contributes to the Icinga core and helps us in reporting bugs and feature requests.

Ricardo Bartels – An Icinga user, in charge of monitoring at a Deutsche Telekom department who has come along to improve Icinga Core and the CGIs with his programming experience.

Erez Zarum – A big supporter from his base in Israel, who has Icinga running at work as IT Manager for Tracx. Erez brings his ideas to help Icinga Quality and Testing.

Matthew Thode – A Sys-Admin at an ITSP, supporting us from across the Atlantic with packaging for Gentoo to make Icinga Core open to more.

Cheers to the 4 new Icingies, who have decided to get their hands dirty and make Icinga the best open source monitoring system available. We welcome you and anyone else who’d like to join with open arms!

It’s good to see that there’s a lot of interest in Icinga and we got a lot of positive and constructive feedback from all different kinds of users, developers and administrators. Sometimes people even had to stay in line to ask their questions.

It’s particularly exciting to see the reactions on the new web interface, which will be released as stable in October. It seems that we really met the communities expectations of a modern monitoring solution. But also the improved made to the classic-interface (sending multiple commands, for example) got a lot of positive reactions by long term Nagios® users. Most visitors decided to switch to Icinga (or at least try it out) after they saw the advantages.

Today we’re still at the FrOSCon the whole day. Why don’t you come over and visit us?
There are also a lot of other interesting free and open source projects, just take a look at the exhibitor list.

While Icinga Core unifies the Classic UI, IDOUtils and API in 1.0.3, Icinga Web steps from 1.0.1 directly to 1.0.3 unstable, preparing for a unified release version in October.

Several new config options have been added to Icinga Core, next to reworking check execution with execvp. We’ve also fixed several bugs, e.g. wrong service alerts in the logs and persistent comments disappearing after restart.

Icinga IDOUtils now provide extended syslog output while fixing major NULL binding errors in Oracle and enhancing column length for MySQL/Postgresql/Oracle.

We have also been working on an outstanding new feature for the Classic UI: Multiple Host/Service selection in the status views, sending commands to the Core.
Next to that, we have added a pause/continue page update button, the possibility to show only HARD states in the tactical overview and optional long_output in the status pages.

Icinga API now provides unit tests and its own debug log, next to our own oci8 implementation instead of pdo_oci. Bugs and more Queries have been added too.

Icinga Web features a new tactical overview including an underlaying template engine. Sending commands is now possible to specific instances only or doing a broadcast. A session expiry watchdog has been added such as http basic auth.
Several IE and other bugs have been fixed, code quality has been improved and configure now allows you to set the API credentials e.g. for IDOUtils DB directly. Watch out for our cool Icinga throbber after login!

Checkout Changelog or What’s New section in the docs for more information!

Please report feedback and/or bugs to our development tracker, the mailinglists and the Icinga Portal! :-)

Enjoy Icinga 1.0.3 and stay tuned for more to come! =)

In its 5th year running, FrOSCon promises to be massive- with 5 tracks of speeches and workshops, LPI and Typo3 examinations, a sub-conference OpenSQLCamp, project stands, developer rooms and even a kids track. For a 5 Euro entrance fee, it’s a pretty good deal.

So if you haven’t got anything planned for the weekend, pop by our project booth upstairs and say hello to the team. We hope to see you there!

Day job:

What do you enjoy about working on the project?
The whole team and the idea that we too, propel Nagios forward and strengthen the community. Not to mention, developing features much faster and closer to the core is a pretty rewarding feeling in itself.

What was one memorable moment while on the Icinga team?
Showing the first previews of Icinga Web to the other team members and seeing their reactions was great- and definitely memorable.

Outside of Icinga, what are some of your other pet projects?
Hmm, I try to get my household in order somehow :-)

What would you bet to be the next big thing in the open source or IT world?
I think something like HTML5 and WebSockets, which glue all the new technologies together and provide a much simpler and faster web to people.

How do you like to spend your time away from the keyboard and monitor?
Mountaineering is one favourite, climbing in the rocks of the Frankenjura or in the Alps. Also spending time with my friends to have some drinks together would be another.

What’s your two cents on Icinga?
No particular opinion, but I’m excited to see when we release Icinga Web 1.0.3 and put everything together, what comes of that and what will come next.

To make this happen, we would like you to send (info at icinga.org) us your story. Tell us about your reasons and experiences using Icinga and what you are doing with it.

If possible please include the following information:

• Your Name
• Your Company
• Some words on you experience
• Your Logo if possible

At the moment we are working hard on the next release, so stay tuned!

Firstly this is only available for the Google Chrome & Chromium browser!

Get a copy of this extension here

Once you have it installed the configuration is fairly straight forward…

Configuration

Simply add a valid Username & Password, and then the full URL to the status.cgi (https://your.domain/icinga/cgi-bin/status.cgi) then once you have entered this information you will be updated on the current health of your Icinga service. See below for the different views available…

Overview

Gives you a quick visual on where you may be having some trouble.

Hosts

Gives you a visual on the health of your hosts.

Services

Gives a visual on the health of your services.

About

A little about the author.

This is a great addition to your Google Chrome/Chromium browser and we thank kepicz for his efforts thus far!