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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 0.0.9

  • new apply rules for assigning objects based on attribute conditions
  • inline object definitions removed in favor of apply rules
  • import keyword instead of inherits keyword for all objects
  • new constants.conf providing PluginDir constant instead of $plugindir$ macro
  • unknown attributes and duplicate objects generate a configuration error
  • improved configuration error output
  • create endpoint tables for legacy interfaces (status data, DB IDO, Livestatus)
  • export host check attribute in legacy interfaces (status data, DB IDO, Livestatus)
  • add documentation about cluster scenarios
  • Livestatus: add check_source attribute to services table
  • Compat: Fix host service order for Classic UI
  • Remove comments when clearing acknowledgements
  • Recovery Notifications require StateFilterOK

Changes

Note

Configuration updates required!

Archive

Please check the ChangeLog file.