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

[Steven D. Morrey]

DNX is designed to address pretty much what you're asking for there.
Being the current lead developer on DNX, I am seeing it handle 3000+ hosts and 30,000+ services, all using just 3 boxes and we haven't even begun to saturate CPU or memory so we know we can go a lot further.
You should give it a shot, if you have any questions feel free to ask us on the dnx list dnx-users at sourceforge.net (to prevent spam, sign up is required before posting).

Enjoy!

Sincerely,
Steve

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From: Mathieu Gagné [mgagne at iweb.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 12:33 PM
To: Nagios Developers List
Subject: [Nagios-devel] Future of Nagios (was Nagios is dead! Long live Icinga!)

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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