Icinga vs Nagios - a developer's comparison

It’s been nearly 2.5 years/906 days  full of enhancements and refreshing development. Many things happen(ed) in the background which are not visible to everyone. Especially when it comes to comparing Icinga with its predecessor Nagios, it’s always hard to show Icinga in its best light and avoid bias at the same time.

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Revisited: Icinga Classic UI

You might be wondering, why Icinga has two web guis available for install

Icinga Classic UI (in icinga tarball) Icinga Web (in icinga-web tarball)

Icinga Classic UI combines the Icinga CGIs using the old data storage format, based on HTML and CGI while the new Icinga Web introduces a shiny web 2.0 framework based web [...]

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Icinga moves from GIT to CVS

We finally made our decision to step away from GIT, and get back to the origin SCM used by Nagios for a long time – CVS. It will enhance our current development capabilities and allow us to develop even faster with speed of light. The first import is still in progress, you can follow it [...]

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Icinga 1.3.1 released

Thanks to everyone using 1.3.0 and pushing feedback onto our development tracker! While working on the upcoming 1.4 branch, we decided to backport all recent bugfixes into the 1.3 tree and release Icinga 1.3.1 :-)

Core & IDOUtils

fix flexible downtime on service hard state changed doesn’t get triggered fix display_name survive reconfiguration and is [...]

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Icinga development visualized by Gource Revisited

Last year, I found gource for visualization of Icinga’s GIT repositories. One of my fellow twitter followers (@crsp) was so passionate about new Icinga Gource episodes – so here they are … including a short Icinga Mobile intro :-)

From last year’s end til now – it’s huge what happened there… Stay tuned for upcoming [...]

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Version 1.3: Halfway There

With 2 months down and 2 months to go, Team Icinga is on track for version 1.3. On top of the intermediate v.1.2.1 release which resolved many a bug, additional fixes and new features already ready for the next release include:

API: The host status filter now shows the associated hosts by specified instances correctly [...]

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Icinga 1.2 Classic UI Updates

As our new release gets closer we would like to give you a little sneak preview of our upcoming features for the Classic UI.

The most obvious changes are:

tooltips for comments in status.cgi – you don’t have to open the host/service anymore to see the comments, just move your mouse over. Nice idea Ricardo [...]

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Icinga Dev Week & OSMC 2010

Every now and again, Team Icinga comes together in the flesh. This time, it was for a week of development, planning and docs.

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News from Core, CGIs & IDOUtils – Part III

Now that you have read about IDOUtils and the CGIs, it is time for the big one :-)

Icinga Core

All changes, fixes and enhancements do not affect compatibility to Nagios ™ – you’ll just get more fixes and enhancements if you decide to move over to Icinga.

The list of fixes and code [...]

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News from Core, CGIs & IDOUtils – Part II

Part II of this series catches up on our work on the CGIs – what happened with them since 1.0.1?

Icinga CGIs

Next to the new Icinga web there was some space to fix and enhance the current classical UI (“the CGIs”).

Some minor typo fixes reported by community users have been applied, missing [...]

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