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About Icinga 2

What is Icinga 2?

Icinga 2 is an enterprise-grade open source monitoring system which keeps watch over networks and any conceivable network resource, notifies the user of errors and recoveries and generates performance data for reporting. Scalable and extensible, Icinga 2 can monitor complex, large environments across dispersed locations.

Licensing

Icinga 2 and the Icinga 2 documentation are licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2, you will find a copy of this license in the LICENSE file included in the package.

Support

Support for Icinga 2 is available in a number of ways. Please have a look at the support overview page at [https://support.icinga.org].

What's new

What's New in Version 0.0.8

  • Add Dependency object for advanced host/service dependency definition
  • Add optional IcingaNodeName for cluster feature
  • Populate check_source attribute with the checker's node name
  • Cluster supports recursive config includes
  • Add Cluster health check
  • Add more performance data to the Icinga health check
  • Add IcingaStatusWriter feature writing a status json file
  • Smoother pending service checking during startup
  • Reduce virtual memory usage
  • Stack traces include file names and line numbers
  • Treat script variables as constants preventing override
  • Fix pending services are being checked with the retry interval
  • DB IDO: Fix deleted objects are not marked as is_active=0
  • DB IDO: additional fields for cluster/checker nodes

Changes

  • {host,service}_dependencies attributes have been changed to Dependency objects supporting new attributes: disable_checks, 'disable_notifications, state_filter, period. For better readability, there is parent_serviceandchild_service` for example.

Note

Update your existing configuration!

What's New in Version 0.0.7

  • DB IDO performance improvements on startup
  • Fix notification_id handling in DB IDO
  • More automated tests (based on the Vagrant VM)
  • New documentation chapters

What's New in Version 0.0.6

  • Scheduled Downtimes as configuration object (also known as "Recurring Downtimes").
  • Log command arguments
  • Performance improvements for the config compiler
  • Config validation provides stats at the end
  • icinga2-enable-feature lists already enabled features
  • Add support for latency statistics to IcingaCheckTask
  • Implement support for using custom attributes as macros
  • StatusDataWriter update interval as config attribute
  • Improve performance with fetching data for status.dat/objects.cache, DB IDO and Livestatus
  • Livestatus History Table performance improvements

Changes

  • Generated object names (host with services array) use an exclamation mark instead of a colon as separator. State file objects with downtimes, comments, etc are invalid (unknown) for that reason.
  • Script variables are set using 'var' and 'const' instead of the previous 'set' identifier
  • ITL constants are now embedded in libicinga
  • Removed the ConsoleLogger object and keep the default console log enabled until we daemonize

What's New in Version 0.0.5

  • Cluster: Implement support for CRLs
  • Implement modified attributes
  • Log messages providing more context
  • Default log is a file (rather than syslog)
  • Improve latency after start-up
  • NSCA-ng support for the Vagrant demo VM
  • Configuration: Recursively include configuration files matching a certain pattern
  • IDO: Improve performance
  • Migration: Add fallback for objects.cache instead of cfg_{dir,file}
  • Lots of bugfixes and performance improvements
  • Package fixes (Note: GPG key of packages.icinga.org has been updated)

What's New in Version 0.0.4

  • IDO: PostgreSQL support
  • IDO: implemented options to filter which kind of events are written to the database
  • Livestatus: implemented support for the log and statehist tables
  • Livestatus: implemented regex filters (~ and ~~)
  • Replaced autotools-based build system with cmake
  • Lots of bug fixes and performance improvements

What's New in Version 0.0.3

  • StatusDataWriter and ExternalCommandListener (former Compat) and CompatLogger (former CompatLog) for status.dat/objects.cache/icinga2.cmd/icinga.log for Icinga 1.x Classic UI support
  • IdoMysqlConnection and ExternalCommandListener for Icinga 1.x Web
  • IdoMysqlConnection for Icinga 1.x Reporting, NagVis
  • LivestatusListener for addons using the livestatus interface (history tables tbd)
  • PerfDataWriter for graphing addons such as PNP/inGraph/graphite (can be loaded multiple times!)
  • GraphiteWriter for sending metrics directly to graphite carbon sockets
  • CheckResultReader to collect Icinga 1.x slave checkresults (migrate your distributed setup step-by-step)
  • ClusterListener for real distributed architecture including config and runtime data (checks, comments, downtimes) sync and replay
  • SyslogLogger, FileLogger and ConsoleLogger for different types of logging
  • Domain support for distributed cluster environments
  • Config migration script supporting easier migration from Icinga 1.x configuration
  • Reviewed configuration options, additional attributes added
  • Enhanced ITL, added sample configuration
  • Enable/Disable Icinga 2 features on CLI
  • Documentation using Markdown (Getting Started, Monitoring Basics, Object Types, Icinga Template Library, Advanced Topics, Migration from Icinga 1.x, Differences between Icinga 1.x and 2, Vagrant Demo VM)
  • Vagrant Demo VM supported by Puppet modules installing RPM snapshots for Icinga 2, Icinga 1.x Classic UI and Web
  • Package snapshots available on [packages.icinga.org]