The document summarizes the current state of Icinga, an open source enterprise monitoring system. Key updates include a 100% growth in unique visitors to the Icinga website, an upcoming Icinga Camp conference in Berlin in March 2016, and new features for Icinga 2 such as an enhanced configuration language and API. Icinga 2 version 2.5 and Icinga Web 2 version 2.2 are planned for the first quarter of 2016. The presentation concludes with a call for users to provide feedback to help improve future versions of Icinga.

1. www.icinga.org
#OSMC – Nuremberg – 11/17/2015
CURRENT STATE OF ICINGA

2. • Bernd Erk
• Icinga co-founder
• Project organizer
• @gethash

4. ICINGA - INTRODUCTION

5. Quick Poll

6. Open Source Enterprise Monitoring
Icinga is a scalable and extensible monitoring system which
checks the availability of your resources, notifies users of
outages and provides extensive BI data.

7. Icinga Web 2
Icinga 2
Icinga
Icinga Quality, Testing and Community Support
Icinga.org, dev.icinga.org, social media channels
Icinga Reports Icinga Doc
3rd Party Tools
Icinga Web
Icinga Classic (CGI)

8. ICINGA - NEWS

9. ICINGA - NEWS - EXCHANGE

11. 90.000 Unique visitors
100% User growth

12. ICINGA - NEWS - COMMUNITY

14. You?

15. Release in Q1 2016

16. Icinga Camp – Berlin 2016
March 1st
https://www.icinga.org/community/events/icinga-camp-berlin/
20% Discount Code OSMC

17. ICINGA - NEWS - SHOP

19. ICINGA2 - NEWS

20. Checker
Notify
Gelf
Perfdata Graphite
IDO
Compat
Livestatus
• Multithreaded
• Modular Features
• Zone support
• Secure Agent

21. ICINGA2 - NEWS - GRAPHITE

22. New Graphite Schema
icinga2.$host.name$.host.$host.check_command$
icinga2.$host.name$.services.$service.name$.$service.check_command$

23. Threshold metrics
enable_send_thresholds
<prefix>.perfdata.<perfdata-label>.min
<prefix>.perfdata.<perfdata-label>.max
<prefix>.perfdata.<perfdata-label>.warn
<prefix>.perfdata.<perfdata-label>.crit

24. Metadata metrics
enable_send_metadata
<prefix>.metadata.current_attempt
<prefix>.metadata.downtime_depth
<prefix>.metadata.execution_time
<prefix>.metadata.latency
<prefix>.metadata.max_check_attempts
<prefix>.metadata.reachable
<prefix>.metadata.state
<prefix>.metadata.state_type

25. Demo

26. ICINGA2 - NEWS - CONFIGURATION

28. Enhanced configuration language
assign where match("*mysql*", host.name) &&
apply Notification "notify-customer" to Service { …
apply Service "ssh” { …
apply Service for (identifier => oid in host.vars.oids) { …
if (get_time_period(“9to5”).is_inside) { …

29. # icinga2 daemon –X

30. Icinga Studio

31. ICINGA2 - NEWS - API

32. We had “APIs”

33. • HTTP with RESTful Url Schema
• ApiUser config object
• X.509 and/or Basic Auth

34. ApiUser Object
# vim /etc/icinga2/conf.d/api-users.conf
object ApiUser "root" {
password = "icinga”
permissions = [ "*" ]
}

35. ApiUser Permissions
permissions = [
{
permission = "objects/query/Host"
filter = {{ regex("^Linux", host.vars.os) }}
},
{
permission = "objects/query/Service"
filter = {{ regex("^Linux", service.vars.os) }}
}
]

36. • create, modify and delete objects
• retrieve information and run actions
• subscribe to events
• manage configuration packages

37. • Configuration management
• New standard config API
• Support for Packages and Stages
• Support for Zones

38. • Event Streams
• Based on Types and Filters
CheckResult, StateChange, Notification, AcknowledgementSet,
AcknowledgementCleared, CommentAdded, CommentRemoved,
DowntimeAdded, DowntimeRemoved, DowntimeTriggered
• Example
/v1/events?queue=osmc&types=CheckResult

39. • Status, Objects, Actions and Events
• Simple filter
• services?service=localhost!ping6
• Advanced filter
• type=Service&filter=service.name==%22ping6%22

40. Demo

42. ICINGA WEB 2

43. • Easy to extend and embed
• JSON and CSV export
• Support for MySQL and PostgreSQL
• Responsive layout

44. • Developed in PHP 5.3
• Multiple authentication methods
• Active Directory, LDAP and DB
• Via Webserver, e.g. Kerberos
• May be chained

45. Web 2
Monitoring Docs
BP NagVis PNP

46. Demo

47. ICINGA ROADMAP – WHAT’S
NEXT?

48. Improving the product based on your
feedback

49. We are thinking about a new historical
datastore for Icinga 2 (not in 2.5)

50. We plan to release more modules for Icinga
Web 2 in the next months

51. We’ll release a web based configuration
module for Icinga Web 2
Tomorrow!

52. Icinga Director
Join Thomas‘ talk tomorrow!
(Room Elisabeth 2:15pm)

53. • Icinga 2.5 is planned for Q1 2016
• Icinga Web 2.2 is planned for Q1 2016

54. OUR VISION

56. CONCLUSION

57. • Download Icinga 2 and Icinga Web 2
• Or play with the Vagrant boxes
• Rethink your configuration
• Give us feedback

58. Enjoy the party!

59. THANK YOU!
www.icinga.org
dev.icinga.org
git.icinga.org
@icinga
/icinga
+icinga