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About Icinga 2

What is Icinga 2?

Icinga 2 is an open source monitoring system which checks the availability of your network resources, notifies users of outages and generates performance data for reporting.

Scalable and extensible, Icinga 2 can monitor complex, large environments across multiple 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 source 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].

Contribute

There are many ways to contribute to Icinga - be it by sending patches, testing and reporting bugs, reviewing and updating the documentation. Every contribution is appreciated!

Please get in touch with the Icinga team at [https://www.icinga.org/ecosystem/].

What's new

What's New in Version 0.0.10

  • Make Host and Service checkable. #5919
  • Support new lines in addition to commas to separate object attributes. #5901
  • Add group membership assign rules. #5910
  • Support nested groups. #5858
  • Add apply target type. #5924
  • Add relative object names. #5925
  • Merge macros and custom into 'vars' dictionary. Changed runtime macros and environment variable export. #5855
  • Add support for modified attributes for custom attributes. #5956
  • Allow to assign var values to existing vars evaluted on runtime. #5959
  • Rename/shorten attribute names and filter variables. #5857
  • Remove the 'Icinga' prefix for global constants. #5960
  • Global option to enable/disable host/service checks. #5975
  • Add legacy attributes to host, service and group objects: address{,6}', notes, notes_url, action_url, icon_image, icon_image_alt. #5856
  • Support "#" hash comments. #5994
  • Cluster: Spanning Tree like communication. #5467
  • Properly implement the Process class for Windows. #3684

Changes

Note

Configuration updates required!

  • Configuration Changes. For a detailed list of changes check out #5909
  • DB IDO schema upgrade required.

Archive

Please check the ChangeLog file.