The People Behind Icinga

To ensure the continuous development of the popular monitoring software Nagios, a group of active, long standing Nagios community supporters have decided to fork Nagios and open its development to a broader base. Do you want to be part of Icinga? Great, just contact us!

Jump to team: Core | Core + Packaging | Web + Reporting | QA + Docs | VM | Community

TEAM CORE: Icinga Core, Classic UI & IDOUtils development. (Lead by Michael Friedrich)
	MICHAEL FRIEDRICH (+ PACKAGING) | "dnsmichi" Lead Developer of Icinga Core and IDOUtils MySQL/Postgresql/Oracle. Michael works as DNS Admin and Monitoring Developer and focuses on coding Icinga & DNS Tools in C and Perl. In charge of: Icinga Core & IDOUtils as well as Packaging. On the team since May 2009.
	RICARDO BARTELS | "Ricardo" Icinga user who now contributes to Icinga Core and the CGIs (or Classic UI), Ricardo looks after monitoring and server administration of >500 servers at one of Deutsche Telekom’s many departments. Ricardo has over 10 years of monitoring experience. On the team since August 2010.
	THOMAS DRESSLER | "Tommi" Thomas is a DBA with 20 years experience and specialises in IDOUtils and Oracle. Working at Vodafone Germany, he manages their Oracle databases and monitoring on various platforms. On the team since March 2011.
	MIKE DUPONT | " h4ck3rm1k3" Mike is founder of a free software community in Kosovo FLOSSK and now helps Icinga in various areas - debugging, docs, enhanced tests and development. He has been programming in C and C++ and Perl for more than 12 years now. On the team since February 2011.
	MATTHEW BROOKS (+ COMMUNITY) | "mjbrooks" IT consultant and Icinga user/developer in Northern California who does C, Perl, Python and shell programming. He focuses on the Classic UI/CGI and was behind the new Tactical Header introduced in r1.4. Currently the Group Contact (GC) for #icinga on the IRC Freenode network and on the team since May 2011.
	GUNNAR BEUTNER | "gunnarbeutner" Core developer, Gunnar specializes on the SLA monitoring component of Icinga. He is a contributor to various graphing tools and works in C/C++, PHP with a love of databases. On the team since June 2011.
	MASSIMO FORNI | "elagon" Icinga user and developer of the Icinga core. An IT administrator in Italy for a software house, Massimo loves C/Perl/Python. On the team since May 2010.
TEAM PACKAGING: Icinga release building & packaging. (Lead by Michael Friedrich)
	ALEXANDER WIRT | "formorer" Alexander maintains the official Debian packages for Icinga alongside Nagios, in support of the Icinga core team. On the team since March 2010.
	MATTHEW THODE | "mthode" A sys admin at an ITSP in USA, Matthew uses Icinga to monitor VoIP infrastructure. Matthew contributes to Icinga Core helping out where he knows best - packaging Icinga for Gentoo. On the team since August 2010.
	LARS ENGELS | "LarsEngels" Lars runs Icinga on Oracle Solaris and FreeBSD so his main goal is to keep Icinga portable and usable on non-Linux platforms. In this way he supports the Core team. On the team since October 2010.
	CARL R. FRIEND (+ QUALITY ASSURANCE) | "crfriend" On board since May 2012, Carl contributes to Core, Packaging and QA, particularly with his Solaris knowledge. A sys admin and Icinga user with 30 years experience in IT on everything from hardware to application programming, Carl specialises in cross-platform interoperability and has used Nagios since the mid-2000s.
	MARKUS FROSCH | "lazyfrosch" Icinga and Nagios user/sys admin for several years now, Markus is currently an Icinga and open source consultant. He maintains the Icinga Web packages for Debian, and contributes to other open source projects. You might find him on Icinga's IRC channel pondering on user problems. On board since August 2012.
TEAM WEB + REPORTING: Icinga Web, Icinga Reporting & Icinga Mobile development. (Lead by Marius Hein - Web & Michael Lübben - Reporting)
	MARIUS HEIN | "mhein" Developer of NETWAYS Portal, Grapher V2 and various Plugins and Addons for Icinga/Nagios. Lead Developer of Icinga Web and "Cronk" creator. On the team since May 2009.
	JANNIS MOSSHAMMER | "jmosshammer" Jannis specialises in Icinga Web and the module loader architecture. He developed the first Icinga Module named Heatmap for Icinga. Jannis has experience with modern web architecture and underlying frameworks such as Agavi and Doctrine. Users of Icinga Mobile can thank also Jannis. On the team since April 2010.
	ERIC LIPPMANN | "lippser" Eric is a member of the Icinga Web team and a long time PHP and Javascript developer. He is main developer of inGraph and responsible for many cronk concepts and ideas. On the team since summer 2011.
	MICHAEL LÜBBEN (+ REPORTING) | "mluebben" Developer of NagVis, the Nagios visualization addon and NagTrap. Creator of icinga/nagios-portal.org Former member of Nagios Community Advisory Board. Michael develops Icinga Web and Reporting. Founder of the Icinga Project.
	BERND ERK (REPORTING + COMMUNITY) | "berk" Former member of Nagios Community Advisory Board, Managing Director at NETWAYS, creator of MonitoringExchange (formerly NagiosExchange). Bernd contributes to Icinga project management and public presentations. Founder of the Icinga Project.
TEAM QUALITY ASSURANCE + DOCS: Icinga quality, release testing & bug reporting, as well as Icinga documentation writing & translation. (Lead by Rune Darrud - QA & Wolfgang Nieder - Docs)
	RUNE DARRUD | "TheFlyingCorpse" Rune is responsible for Icinga quality, release testing and bug reporting. Rune is a member of the Q&A and Core teams. On the team since July 2010.
	LARA BERDELSMANN (+ ICINGA DOCS) | "croft" Active member of Icinga/Nagios community and in real life IT administrator with a running Icinga setup in a large enviroment. In charge of: Icinga Documentation, Icinga Usability, Quality & Testing. On the team since May 2009.
	WOLFGANG NIEDER (+ ICINGA DOCS) | "Wolfgang" Active member of Icinga/Nagios Community, Translator of the German Nagios documentation, member of NagVis Team, the Nagios visualisation addon. In charge of: Icinga Documentation. On the team since May 2009.
	FRANZ HOLZER | "Frankstar" Franz is on the QA team, testing Icinga, supporting users on community channels and improving our dev tracker processes. Responsible for monitoring iTaurus IT Dienstleistungs and customers' systems in their cloud, Franz has plenty of on the job Icinga experience, writing plugins and the like. On the team since April 2012.
	SVEN BAUKNECHT | "tuxifier" Sven helps to test Icinga and expand Icinga Wiki. A Linux enthusiast of 16+ years, he started monitoring in the late 90s with Big Brother, Netsaint and Nagios both professionally and privately. At work he helps design and implement monitoring solutions - exclusively with Icinga as of 2009. On the team since November 2012.
TEAM VM: Icinga virtual machines. (Lead by David Gerbec)
	DAVID GERBEC | "davidg" A Linux system admin who first started using Linux in 1995, David's day job has him involved in all stages of system integration (mixed envs., visualization, monitoring, ...) and support. He also contributes to Icinga QA. On the team since Dec 2011.
	ASSAF FLATTO I "Assaf" Starting in 2001 with Netsaint (now Nagios) Assaf has since built NMS structures for data centres on 3 continents, combining Nagios with tools such as MRTG, Snort, Asterisk and Cacti. In Icinga, Assaf contributes to IDOUtils, NRPE QA and VM creation. On the team since December 2011.
TEAM COMMUNITY: Icinga announcements, events & community support. (Lead by Karolina Hein)
	KAROLINA HEIN | "khein" Host of the Open Source Monitoring Conference. She keeps you up to date via Twitter & Facebook and Icinga Blog. In charge of: marketing and graphic design (aka. the logo machine). Founder of the Icinga Project.
	AMANDA MAILER | "amanda.mailer" Amanda is a happy little vegemite who helps to keep the website/blog lively and social networks buzzing. You may know her from a few Icinga webcasts on YouTube too. She’s the go-to for media enquiries and event opportunities. Officially on the team since May 2011.

Icinga Project Supporters & Sponsors

We’d like to thank the following organisations for their ongoing contributions to the Icinga project in operation.

• Aiki Linux Consulting
• Bærum Municipality
• NETWAYS GmbH
• Sonoma Technology Partners, Inc

There are many helping hands and bright minds who help this project in one way or another. We would like to say a cordial “thank you” to

• The Monitoring-Portal.org community and team that keeps the forum running, for helping all Icinga users who seek advice there
• Atlassian Confluence & RefinedWiki for granting us free open source project licenses to use their great software
• Christian Döbler for helping in Icinga´s development of the API
• Hiren Patel for his contribution to the Icinga Core team
• Christoph Maser for his help in creating RPMs on RepoForge and Icinga Virtual Appliance
• Mike Becker for his work on NRPE for Icinga
• Scott Evans for Q&A help, blogging and tweeting to create awareness for Icinga on social media
• Erez Zarum for his contribution to Icinga quality and testing
• Norbert Klein for his ideas regarding idoutils and PostgreSQL
• Marco Berdelsmann for converting the xml-Doku into a handy .pdf format
• Vitali Voroth for a huge improvement for Icinga core: escalation conditions
• Bill McGonigle for a great patch “changing the default state from CRITICAL to UNKNOWN”
• Edgar Salazar for bringing the spanish translations on the way
• Matthias Flacke for his community support and advices
• Ronny Fauth for being a part of the Icinga Team

Your contributions are immensely appreciated.