Icinga Monitoring
From Realm Business Systems Ltd
Icinga takes open source monitoring to the next level.
- Icinga is an open source monitoring software project that began as a fork of Nagios.
- The Icinga Project maintains two branches in parallel: Icinga 1 and Icinga 2.
- Icinga 1 and Icinga 2 are enterprise-grade open source monitoring systems that keep watch over a network and any conceivable network resource, notify users of errors and recoveries, and generate performance data for reporting.
- Though both are scalable and extensible, Icinga 2 is designed to monitor complex, large environments across dispersed locations out-of-the-box.
- All software written by the Icinga Project is licensed under GPL V2 – free to use, distribute and modify.
Monitoring
- Monitoring of network services (SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, ping, etc.)
- Monitoring of host resources (CPU load, disk usage, etc.)
- Monitoring of server components (switches, routers, temperature and humidity sensors, etc.)
- Monitoring of network connectivity and performance
- Simple plug-in design that allows users to easily develop their own service checks
- Parallelized service checks
- Ability to define network host hierarchy using “parent” hosts, allowing detection of and distinction between hosts that are down and those that are unreachable
- Ability to define event handlers to be run during service or host events for proactive problem resolution
Notification
- Notification of contact persons when service or host problems occur and get resolved (via email, pager, or user-defined method)
- Escalation of alerts to other users or communication channels
- Mobile phone App and Desktop plugins
Visualisation & Reporting
- Two optional user interfaces (Icinga Classic UI and Icinga Web) for visualization of host and service status, network maps, reports, logs, etc.
- Icinga Reporting module based on open source Jasper Reports for both Icinga Classic and Icinga Web user interfaces
- Template based reports (e.g. Top 10 problematic hosts or services, synopsis of complete monitoring environment, availability reports, etc.)
- Report repository with varying access levels and automated report generation and distribution
- Optional extension for SLA reporting that distinguishes between critical events from planned and unplanned downtimes and acknowledgement periods
- Capacity utilization reporting
- Performance graphing via add-ons such as PNP4Nagios, NagiosGrapher and InGraph
- Nagstamon linux desktop open source monitoring app.
- ANag Android mobile phone open source monitoring app.
Icinga is free and open source – there are no limitations and you can inspect, integrate, extend and modify however you want.
