Nagios Project News

Nagios Core 3.2.1 Released

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:00:44 -0600

Nagios Core 3.2.1 has just been released and can be downloaded from www.nagios.org/download. This latest stable release include several bug fixes, including fixes for compilation under Fedora and Solaris and incorrect check scheduling when time changes occur. Changelog is available here.

Ask Ethan - A New Interview Series With Nagios Founder

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:43:53 -0600

Ethan Galstad - Founder and "Father" of Nagios, and President of Nagios Enterprises - will share his responses to customer and community questions about all things Nagios in our monthly newsletter. Have a question you'd like to pose to the founder? Ask Ethan.

Nagios Voted Monitoring Application Of The Year

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:15:55 -0600

We received noticed from the nice folks at LinuxQuestions.org that its members voted Nagios network monitoring application of year! Nagios took more than 50% of the votes and emerged the clear leader over other OSS and commercial monitoring solutions. Thanks to everyone who voted and to all the people that help make Nagios great!

Meet The Community - Tobi Oetiker of MRTG, Smokeping, and RRDTool

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:52:16 -0600

A great new community interview with Tobi Oetiker - author of MRTG, Smokeping, and the ubiquitous rrdtool. The ad-hoc interview was done at the Nordic Meet on Nagios in Stockholm, Sweden in June. Watch the interview.

Meet the Community - Joerg Linge of pnp4nagios

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:49:15 -0500

In a new installment of the "Meet The Community" interview series we interview Joerg Linge, author of pnp4nagios ? a popular performance data processing and graphing addon for Nagios. Read the interview.

Nagios Survey Winners

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:35:30 -0500

Thanks to everyone who participated in our product surveys over the past few weeks. We are happy to announce that Yury Pakhomenko, Jay Hildreth, and Susan Wilson were all winners of Amazon gift certificates. We appreciate the feedback we received from participants, and we'll use the information you provided us to deliver the best offerings to you in the upcoming months.

Three Chances to Win a $50 Amazon Gift Certificate

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:18:18 -0500

October is survey mania month at Nagios! We're running three separate surveys to get your input on future commercial Nagios products and services. A gift certificate winner will be chosen at random from the respondents for each of the three surveys. Surveys close on October 23rd. Give us a few minutes and let us know what you'd like from Nagios in the near future:

Take the Nagios "Pro" Product Survey
Take the Nagios Cloud Monitoring Service Survey
Take the Nagios Incident Response Product Survey

Nagios Plugins 1.4.14 Released

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:00:12 -0500

The Nagios Plugin Team has recently released a new version of the official Nagios plugins. You can download a copy of the new 1.4.14 release by visiting the plugins downloads page. Kudos to the plugin team for this new release!

Nagios is RedHat's Standard Alerting System

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:45:27 -0500

We're happy to inform the Nagios Community that Nagios is used as RedHat's standard alerting system. Nick Otto gave a presentation at the RedHat Summit in Chicago earlier this month, in which he covers Nagios and other great OSS tools that are used inside one of the front-runners in commercial Open Source. Thanks to Subhendu Ghosh for letting us know about this!

Survey Says: 7 Out of 10 Geeks Prefer Nagios

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:08:21 -0500

Actually, 6.88172043 geeks out of 10 prefer Nagios, but we like to round to make it easy for the non-geeks out there. :-) The Geek Stuff (thegeekstuff.com) recently ran a survey on favorite monitoring tools. Nagios was by far the most popular tool among geeks! Probably because you can do just about anything with it. Nothing makes a true geek happier than mashing together some great applications and ideas to create the next mega-wonder. Rock on!