Future of Nagios (was Nagios is dead! Long live Icinga!)

[Mathieu Gagné]

Hi Ethan,

First, thank you very much for Nagios.

Our enterprise relies heavily on it and Nagios has been a great 
monitoring tools for us for so many years. Up to now, nothing has 
surpassed its simplicity of use and we will continue to use it in the 
foreseeable future.

On 5/6/09 11:56 AM, Ethan Galstad wrote:
> 4. Big things are coming around the bend for Nagios.  Big things take
> time.  Be patient for a bit longer and you'll see the results.

As an enterprise looking to scale Nagios to tens of thousands monitored 
hosts and services, what could be our expectations of the future 
regarding scalability?

We are using NDOutils to centralize host/service status.

One of our main challenge will be to optimize the configuration and 
patch Nagios/NDOutils to make reloads as fast as possible since addition 
and removable of monitored hosts have a high turnover rate. (I don't 
know if it's the correct way to say it in English)

Reloading Nagios so it can pickup the new configuration is viewed as a 
"flaw" by our developers team because there's no monitoring done during 
that time.

If we reload Nagios too often, it would simply pass the majority of its 
time exporting configuration/status to NDOutils and scheduling checks 
without doing any real work at all. Too seldom and new monitoring would 
take too much time before being scheduled.

Any future plan regarding this aspect?

Also, have you ever heard of DNX? http://dnx.sourceforge.net/
Any future plan about a similar feature within Nagios?

Thanks for your time.

--
Mathieu

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