Nagios is one seriously awesome monitoring tool that has achieved extensive market penetration since its initial release in 1999. Despite being underfunded, Nagios has exploded onto the scene of enterprise-class network management tools and challenged well-established and well-funded competitors. This David-vs-.Goliath success story has been made possible through the grass-roots efforts of the Nagios Community members and their word-of-mouth-advocacy.
At Nagios Enterprises, we’ve been working overtime and behind the scenes to prepare for the launch of a new era in Nagios history. Look to 2009 as the year in which Nagios will rise to the top of the competition and rightfully claim its spot as undisputed King of Monitoring.
Oh, and our unofficial company theme song during these chaotic days is “Eye of the Tiger”. We think it sums our work up perfectly.
Don’t miss the chance to attend the upcoming Nagios Nordic Meet 08 in Stockholm, Sweden June 3-4.
Come and meet key individuals from the open source community and discuss the future of their OSS Projects, technical news, market trends and listen to case studies focusing on business value. There will be open discussions on development and technology challenges.
Speakers include:
Ethan Galstad, founder of Nagios
Tobias Oetiker, founder of RRD Tools
Balazs Scheidler, founder of SysLog-NG
Andreas Ericsson, developer and member of Nagios enterprise advisory bord
There has been some discussion about having a Nagios conference in Latin America. In order to determine whether or not there is enough interest in such a conference, we need to hear from you. So vote in these two polls and tell us what you’d like! Continue reading ‘Poll: Nagios conference in Latin America?’
I’m surprised that it didn’t happen sooner, but the hidden message in the Nagios/NSA t-shirt. was successfully decoded at the NETWAYS Nagios Konferenz yesterday.
Gerd Mueller from NETWAYS saw Sandro Vaz from OpServices with the t-shirt, snapped a photo of the barcode on his mobile phone, and decoded the image. I won’t disclose the hidden message here, so you can try and figure it out for yourself. Congrats to Gerd for his quick thinking and fast work!
Hernando Castelli will be giving a presentation on Nagios (”Nagios, Monitorización y Seguridad de la Red”) at CafeConf 2007 (www.cafeconf.org.) in Buenos Aires, Argentina this coming weekend. If you’re heading to the conference, be sure to check it out.
There are still six weeks left to be nominated as the Sysadmin of the Year 2007. So far over 2100 nominations have been received and over 1220 entries have been completed. If you haven’t done so already, have someone nominate you and complete the required entry forms and you’ll get a free tshirt. More details at http://www.sysadminoftheyear.com/.
You voted for Nagios in the SourceForge 2007 Community Choice Awards and now its my turn to vote for you. The Sysadmin of the Year (SAOTY) 2007 contest is now open and accepting nominations. Get someone to nominate you and tell the world about how exactly you manufacture and wield the elusive pixie dust that keeps things running smoothly.
Prizes will be awarded at five levels:
Grand Prize - One winner will receive a Gibson Explorer guitar, an Apple MacBook Pro, a trip to the LISA Conference in Dallas (November 11-16, 2007), and a Splunk Enterprise license
Runners-Up - Three individuals will receive an Apple iPhone
Honorable Mentions - Ten individuals will receive a case of Red Bull Energy Drink
Nominees - The first 2500 nominees will receive a free SysAdmin of the Year t-shirt
More information the SAOTY contest (as well as profiles of last year’s winners) can be found at http://www.sysadminoftheyear.com/. Good luck!
Nagios is one of the 2007 SourceForge Community Choice Awards finalists in the ‘Best Tool or Utility for SysAdmins‘ cateogy! Thanks to everyone who nominated it as one of their favorite apps.
Now that the nomination process is complete, the voting begins to determine the Community Choice Award winners in each category. Vote for Nagios and your other favorite OSS apps by visiting http://sourceforge.net/awards/cca/vote.php.
eWeek just included Nagios as one of the most important Open Source applications of all time. Awesome!
From eWeek: “System and network monitoring was jolted by Nagios, pushing high-end commercial products to innovate while making monitoring a possibility for small and mid-sized organizations.”
Thanks to everyone in the Nagios community who made this possible! You can see the list here.
William Hurley wrote an interesting blog article for TalkBMC titled Welcome to Opensville, Population Zero. In it, he talks about how Open Source projects like Nagios are increasingly coming under fire from the pirate mentality found in many commercial offerings. A very interesting, quick read that I thought many of you would be interested in.
Many Open Source projects suffer (directly and indirectly) from the pillaging that often occurs due to overzealous corporate ambitions. There are companies that do contribute back to the projects they derive benefit from, and that’s fantastic. Those business are a part of the Open Source community, just like the project developers, contributors, and users. I take issue, however, with companies that seek to align and associate themselves with a project solely for their own benefit…
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