Since the controversial announcement in May 2009 of a fork from the prevalent monitoring system Nagios, the Icinga team of community developers has maintained a transparent roadmap, punctually releasing 30 versions across Core, API, Web and Docs within a year. “Our reliable roadmap and development trajectory have actually attracted many companies to implement Icinga for their network monitoring, as they know they can rely on Icinga’s constant upgrade and enhancement”, noted Bernd Erk, Icinga Co-Founder and Project Organiser. Currently, Icinga offers a stable Core and API 1.0.2, user-friendly Web Interface 1.0.1 and multilingual Documentation 1.0.2 in English, German and Spanish.
Most significantly, the Icinga development team has built in PostgreSQL and Oracle database support on top of the standard MySQL, making it accessible to a broader user base and enterprise applications. “Too many users were locked out of other monitoring systems simply because they relied on popular databases other than MySQL, like PostgreSQL and Oracle. Now, Icinga allows enterprise grade monitoring to be enjoyed by a much larger community, many of whom were seeking this for a very long time,” said Michael Friedrich, Icinga Core and IDOUtils Developer.
Beyond development success, the Icinga team has grown from 7 members of the German open source monitoring community to 16 active contributors from Australia, Austria, Germany and South Africa. Project supporters has grown to stretch even farther around the world, evidenced in the range of languages volunteers have joined translate the Icinga web interface. Marius Hein, Icinga Co-founder and Web/API Developer, recalled the overwhelming response: “In a matter of days of announcing translate.icinga.org, we exploded to 26 languages including Bulgarian, Chinese, Hebrew, Norwegian and Turkish.”
Icinga’s popularity in the open source community has also been matched by its growing use in the corporate realm. Genotech implemented Icinga in as early as the RC1 stage. Aside from enterprise implementations, Icinga has also been well received in conferences: CeBIT in Hannover, OpenExpo in Bern, Open Source Monitoring Conference in Nuremberg, Open Source Expo in Karlsruhe, and FLISol in Maturin, Venezuela.
The Icinga team accounts their first year success towards its large community support base, which has included over 1000 Facebook and Twitter followers, in YouTube and across the web. “In just 1 year Icinga has achieved an incredible amount of development progress and international exposure. This could not have been possible without the immense support from the open source community, to whom we pay tribute to on our first birthday,” said Michael Lübben, Icinga Co-founder and Web Developer.
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