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About Icinga 2

What is Icinga 2?

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

Scalable and extensible, Icinga can monitor large, complex environments across multiple locations.

Icinga 2 is the monitoring server and requires Icinga Web 2 on top in your Icinga Stack. The configuration can be easily managed with either the Icinga Director, config management tools or plain text within the Icinga DSL.

Icinga 2 Distributed Master and Satellites with Agents

Start with Icinga

Once Icinga Server and Web are running in your distributed environment, make sure to check out the many Icinga modules for even better monitoring.

What's New

You can follow the development and release milestones on GitHub. Please follow our release announcements on icinga.com too.

Support

Check the project website at icinga.com for status updates. Join the community channels for questions or get in touch for professional support.

Contribute

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

Please continue reading in the Contributing chapter.

Security Issues

For reporting security issues please visit this page.

Icinga 2 Development

The Git repository is located on GitHub.

Icinga 2 is written in C++ and can be built on Linux/Unix and Windows. Read more about development builds in the development chapter.

License

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.