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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Upgrade your monitoring from Nagios to Icinga

We try to be compatible with the configuration files of the current Nagios 3.x versions so there should be very little you have to do to upgrade from Nagios 3.x to Icinga 1.2. Assuming you’ve already installed Nagios from source code as described in the Nagios quickstart guide, you can install Icinga quite easily.

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Icinga vs. Nagios –Tabled

It’s coming to a year since our first RC 1.0, and we’re still getting much interest in Icinga. Of course, the age old question arises time again–“What’s the difference?”

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 – [...]

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Icinga Core – More Enhancements

First of all – many thanks to Vitali Voroth and DECOIT GmbH and also Bill McGonigle for providing such great stuff and improving Icinga.

So what it’s all about?

As you might know, we are “monitoring” the Nagios world too and recently on the developer mailing list, an interesting patch popped up:

Currently the Icinga [...]

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Dual Head Development

Maybe you’ve already heard the news and are wondering what’s going on.

The development of Nagios NDOUtils was re-activated a few weeks ago and I now will work to support both Nagios in NDOUtils as well as the Icinga Core.

As Icinga benefits through active Nagios development, Nagios will profit through database related development from [...]

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Nagios is forked: Icinga is unleashed

A group of leading Nagios protagonists including members of the Nagios Community Advisory board and creators of multiple Nagios Addons have launched Icinga – a fork of Nagios, the prevalent open source monitoring system. This independent project strives to be more responsive to user requests and faster in software development through the support of a [...]

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