Shinken vs Nagios

Shinken

Flexible and scalable monitoring framework (by shinken-solutions)

Monitoring

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shinken-monitoring.org

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Nagios

Nagios Core (by NagiosEnterprises)

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Shinken		Nagios
	Project
-	Mentions	7
1,132	Stars	1,450
0.1%	Growth	1.3%
1.2	Activity	7.4
7 days ago	Latest Commit	3 days ago
Python	Language	C
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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Shinken

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Nagios

Posts with mentions or reviews of Nagios. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-27.

OpenRC is a dependency-based init system for Unix-like systems
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jun 2023

I've used this opportunity to look at some recent init files.
Here's one of the first I stumbled upon.
https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/blob/master/...
It's 288 lines long; the LSB dependency nonsense is 8 lines of that.
Then I looked up one for Postgres;
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Lsb_conforming_init_script
This one is a whooping 356 lines long, LSB is again about 10 lines long, depending whether you count the header or not.
I don't think the "LSB dependency" argument holds water.
Can't get Nagios to work on Ubuntu 22.04
6 projects | /r/nagios | 30 May 2023

wget -O nagioscore.tar.gz https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/archive/nagios-4.4.12.tar.gz
Upgrading Core to 4.4.7
1 project | /r/nagios | 10 May 2022

Might be this bug? https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/issues/861
Is Nagios Core still alive? Last commit on 18 Jul 2020 😳
3 projects | /r/nagios | 27 Jan 2022
Nagios Inconsistencies
2 projects | /r/nagios | 19 Jan 2021

As far as i know there is no option to log all executed service checks except the debug log. Probably you are looking for log_service_retries=1 ?

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Shinken and Nagios you can also consider the following projects:

Zabbix - Real-time monitoring of IT components and services, such as networks, servers, VMs, applications and the cloud.

LibreNMS - Community-based GPL-licensed network monitoring system

Icinga2

Naemon - Networks, Applications and Event Monitor

Centreon - Centreon is a network, system and application monitoring tool. Centreon is the only AIOps Platform Providing Holistic Visibility to Complex IT Workflows from Cloud to Edge.

Netdata - The open-source observability platform everyone needs

Sensu

Thruk - Thruk is a multibackend monitoring webinterface for Naemon, Nagios, Icinga and Shinken using the Livestatus API.

Monit

uptime-kuma - A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool