Thomas Gelf talking about Icinga Web 2 and additional modules at Icinga Camp 2016 in Portland.

1. www.icinga.org
Icinga Web 2 is more...
IcingaCamp - Portland – 10/10/15

2. Thomas Gelf
Web 2 Product owner
Prototyping beast
Principal Consultant
@netways

3. AGENDA

4. • Icinga Web 2 is now stable
• LOTS of modules in the pipeline
• I'll show a few of them

5. GRAPHING TIME SERIES DATA

7. • Good old times ;-)
• Web 2: generic grapher hook
• We want to support all of them
• Open Source is about working together

8. • PNP4Nagios integration
• Available on GitHub and git.icinga.org
• Very simple, based on iFrames

10. ROADMAP
Deeper integration, direct rendering
• (using/supporting legacy templates)
• Afterwards it should be tagged stable

11. MORE IDEAS (1)
• Index massive amounts of RRD files in
a database for faster lookups
• Working prototype with 200,000
datasources running in production
• Billions of datapoints on a single server

12. MORE IDEAS (2)
• A customer asked for reports like:
• Graph all (1000s) 3G/UMTS links
• "Worst ones first"
• (means order them by antenna gain, using the
daily/weekly/monthly standard deviation)
• RRD is still one of the fastest NoSQL
databases for time series data

13. DO MORE WITH GRAPHITE

15. • Not designed to replace Grafana
• Fills the gap where Grafana fails
• Multiple (many) instances of one thing
• Lots of information at first sight
• Many CPUs, hundreds of interfaces

18. ROADMAP
Allow one to configure distinct trees
(Icinga2 hosts, services, CollectD...)
• Ship nice templates for ITL checks
• Will be released very soon
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Needs Icinga 2.4

19. WHAT ELSE?
• Implementing a basic hook is easy
• We'd like to see support for more tools
• Think of Munin, Cacti, Prometheus...

20. REPORTING

21. Extensible reporting module
• configurable timeranges
• access monitored objects
• enforce restrictions
• hook for concrete implementations

25. MODEL BUSINESS PROCESSES

27. • Hundreds of nodes are not an issue
• Thousands also, but they hurt your web
browser
• It's therefore perfectly valid to define
sub-nodes referencing processes
defined elsewhere

29. • Alert based on business processes
• Generate availability reports (SLA)
• How? Define Icinga checks!
• Hint: use Puppet to generate processes

31. ROADMAP
• Publicly available since a long time
• TBD: improve the process editor
• Stable release within next weeks

32. RENDER MAPS

34. • Authentication and authorization
• Permissions and restrictions based on
Icinga Web 2 roles
• Add preferred maps to main menu

35. • Seen in the wild: Google Maps
integration

36. ROADMAP
• No concrete schedule
• Basically production-ready
• Guess we should tag and publish it ;)

37. INTEGRATE YOUR TTS

38. • Trouble tickets
• Just one more generic hook
• We (and others) did already a couple of
implementations

40. Already on GitHub: generictts

41. Request Tracker – RT. Used internally, needs cleanup, will be published.

42. Helpline. Customer-specific implementation, deeply integrated.

43. Elasticsearch / Logstash: quick access

44. ACCESS YOUR LOGS

45. Elasticsearch / Logstash: quick access

46. ROADMAP
• Implement an Elastic Search query
renderer for our powerful filters
• Will allows us to enforce ACLs
• We want to have it soon, but no
concrete schedule right now

47. MANAGE SNMP TRAPS

48. JUST ONE MESSAGE

51. IMMAGINE
THESE
TOGETHER

52. ROADMAP
• None.
• We developed working prototypes for
all required components
• Sponsorship could really help here

53. INTEGRATE Icinga Web 2

54. • Icinga 2 is multithreaded
• Load is distributed automatically
• Monitors in a second interval

57. CONFIGURATION MADE EASY

58. Target audience
• Point & click users
• Fully automated environments
• At the very same time (!!)

59. Icinga loves automation
• Perfectly fit for Puppet
• Collect exported resources or query
PDB to build Icinga config
• You basically define hosts equipped
with custom vars
• Services are mostly apply rules based
on host properties

60. Monitoring has to „just work“
• No one wants to waste time on it
• But not every system is fully automated
• e.g. „Add a new MSSQL instance“
• Environmental sensors

61. Deploying every few minutes?
• Don't want to wait for next Puppet run?
• New hosts or apps need to be actively
monitored seconds after being deployed

62. Sync...
...like a pro!

63. Demo

64. ROADMAP
• Release scheduled for November
• Needs Icinga 2.4

65. WRITE YOUR OWN MODULES

66. Demo

67. Thank You!
www.icinga.org
dev.icinga.org
git.icinga.org
@icinga
/icinga
+icinga

68. QUESTIONS?
Thomas Gelf <thomas.gelf@netways.de>

69. BEER!