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We’re putting up this post a bit ahead of time, so you can think of questions and post from whichever time zone you’re in.
We’ll start answering from 3PM CEST until we either run out of questions or we go home for the night - but you can keep posting more questions if you want, we’ll check in in the coming days as well!
A big Dankeschön to the mods for their amazing cooperation in setting all of this up together!
Hello fellow open-source enthusiasts!
A little bit about us:
We at Icinga are a team of 21 people working together on our flagships Icinga and Icinga Web, its modules and extensions, and a bunch of other projects in the open source monitoring world. You can find pretty much all we do over on our GitHub.
Icinga started out as an open source project, as a fork of Nagios, back in 2009. Since then, it’s been completely rewritten and grown into its own monitoring platform, shaped by contributions from people all over the world. Community and openness have always been at the heart of it, and that’s something we’re making sure to keep.
Our goal is straightforward: build a strong open source monitoring tool and keep improving it, so you can monitor your entire infrastructure with confidence. That means keeping up with new requirements and pushing new ideas forward.
We’ve been part of the monitoring community for many years, and we work with companies of all sizes to better understand the real-world challenges of running large and diverse environments.
In 2018 we set up Icinga GmbH to make sure there’s stable funding and proper product management behind the project. These days we’ve got a partner network, and we provide services, support and training for folks who need it. Our home base is Nuremberg, Germany, where we still see each other regularly in our offices.
Feel free to ask us anything: technical, business related, community related, fun, or completely random. We’re happy to talk monitoring, open source, company life, or whatever else comes to mind.
You can also upvote the questions you want to see answered first!
We’ll be using our shared u/icinga and note who is answering with a /Name to protect everyone’s privacy / activity on here :)