The Netways Nagios Conference 2008 in Nürnberg (DE) was opened today by Ethan Galstad, creator of Nagios. He gave an overview of how Nagios evolved and the steady growth of the monthly downloads, now reaching 16k!
The Nagios 3.0 overview was quite nice. Apparently lots of effort was put in optimizing it for bigger setups, like doing host checks in parallel and changing internal structures not using linked lists.
Great was also to hear that the web interface is being revamped, as well as the Embedded Perl becoming some kind of plugin, called Event Broker Modules. This is however for the next experimental versions (v3.
MySQL was mentioned when the NDOUtils were discussed. The reliance on MySQL will disappear eventually, which makes more sense so giving people more choice. There seemed to be also problems with the performance in NDOUtils, but apparently it’s about the huge quantity of data that could go into the DBMS. During my talk, somebody of the audience actually said that some indexes would help. But as I pointed out, that would help greatly for reading data, but will make writing again slower. This is something I’ll have to check out..
(Ah, and I said I was going to look into making a Nagios plugin, but it would conflict a bit with the stuff Sun/MySQL offers.)