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Icinga 2
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About
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 large, complex environments across multiple locations.
Icinga 2 as monitoring core works best with Icinga Web 2 as web interface.
More information can be found at www.icinga.com and inside the documentation.
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 COPYING file included in the source package.
Installation
Read the INSTALL.md file for more information about how to install it.
Documentation
The documentation is located in the doc/ directory. The latest documentation is also available on https://docs.icinga.com
Support
Check the project website at https://www.icinga.com for status updates. Join the community channels for questions or ask an Icinga partner for professional support.
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 INSTALL.md file.
Contributing
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!
Read the contributing section and get familiar with the code.
Pull requests on GitHub are preferred.
Testing
Basic unit test coverage is provided by running make test during package builds.
Read the INSTALL.md file for more information about development builds.
Snapshot packages from the laster development branch are available inside the package repository.
You can help test-drive the latest Icinga 2 snapshot packages inside the Icinga 2 Vagrant boxes.