Team

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!

MICHAEL LÜBBEN
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.
Marius HeinMARIUS HEIN
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.
Lara BerdelsmannLARA BERDELSMANN
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.
Michael FriedrichMICHAEL FRIEDRICH
Lead Developer of Icinga Core and IDOUtils MySQL/Postgresql/Oracle. Michael works at the University of Vienna as DNS (Monitoring) Developer and focuses on coding Icinga & DNS Tools in C and Perl. In charge of: Icinga Core & IDOUtils. On the team since May 2009.
BerndBERND ERK
Former member of Nagios Community Advisory Board, Technical Lead at NETWAYS, creator of MonitoringExchange (formerly NagiosExchange). Bernd contributes to Icinga project management and public presentations. Founder of the Icinga Project.
kheinKAROLINA HEIN
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.
Wolfgang NiederWOLFGANG NIEDER
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.
ScottEvansSCOTT EVANS
Icinga User since the first release, living in Tasmania. Scott helps Icinga with Q&A. He is also around on Icinga Blog, Twitter and Facebook. On the team since October 2009.
MATTHIAS FLACKE
Active member of Icinga/Nagios community and in real life IT administrator helping Icinga with testing. On the Team since May 2009.
massimoMASSIMO FORNI
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.
Jannis MosshammerJANNIS MOSSHAMMER
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.
awirtALEXANDER WIRT
Alexander maintains the official Debian packages for Icinga alongside Nagios, in support of the Icinga core team. On the team since March 2010.
rdarrudRUNE DARRUD
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.
RICARDO BARTELS
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.
MATTHEW THODE
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.
EREZ ZARUM
IT Manager at Tracx by day and staunch Icinga supporter by night, Erez contributes to Icinga Quality and Testing. With Icinga already running at work, Erez picks out bugs, puts in ideas and plays with plugins all the way from Israel. On the team since August 2010.
RONNY FAUTH
Ronny works at DB Systel as an Oracle/MySQL/MSSQL database administrator. He too has been working with Nagios for over 4 years and with Icinga since its first version. Ronny contributes to IDOUtils development. On the team since August 2010.
LARS ENGELS
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.
MIKE DUPONT
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.
THOMAS DRESSLER
Thomas is an Oracle DBA with 20 years experience, and since 2003 at Vodafone Germany. In this role he is not only in charge of database operations with RHEL-Linux and Solaris, but also for the internal DB monitoring and automation. He mostly works in Perl, Shell, PHP and -if it is unavoidable- also in C and Delphi. On the core team, he specialises in IDOUtils and Oracle. On the team since March 2011.
MATTHEW BROOKS
Matthew is an IT consultant and Icinga user/developer in Northern California who has been a Linux user since 1995 and does C, Perl, Python and shell programming. He submitted his first patch to Icinga in October 2009 and focuses on the Classic UI/CGI. He developed the new Tactical Header introduced in r1.4. Officially on the team since May 2011.
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.
GUNNAR BEUTNER 
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.
DAVID GERBEC
A Linux system admin who first started using Linux in 1995, David works at Agenda Open Systems. There he's involved in all stages of system integration (mixed envs., visualization, monitoring, ...) and support. On board Icinga QA, he leads in the creation and maintenance of Icinga virtual appliances. On the team since Dec 2011.
ASSAF FLATTO
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.

Icinga Project Supporters & Sponsors

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

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

  • Atlassian Confluence & RefinedWiki for granting us free open source project licenses to use their great software.
  • Hendrik Bäcker for his initial ideas of founding Icinga and contributing to the core
  • Christian Döbler for helping in Icinga´s development of the API
  • Hiren Patel for his contrbution to the Icinga Core team
  • Christopf Maser for his help in creating RPMs on RepoForge and Icinga Virtual Appliance
  • 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.

Your contributions are immensely appreciated.