Features
Shinken can monitor all IT from systems to end user applications. In case of a failure Shinken can alert the operation engineers so they can promptly repair it. It has the same capabilities of Nagios® and even more with advanced built-in facilities such as load balanced and high availability monitoring.
Flexible monitoring and alerting capabilities
Check all elements of your network
Shinken is able to use Nagios®’s plugins, so it can monitor diverse hundreds of types of systems :
- Classic network services (SMTP, IMAP, HTTP, etc)
- System resources (processor load, disk usage, system logs) on a majority of operating systems, including Unixes and Microsoft Windows.
- Databases (MySQL, Oracle, MsSQL, etc)
- Simple plugin design that allows users to easily develop their own service checks depending on requirements by using the language of choice (shell scripts, C++, Perl, Ruby, Python, PHP, C#, etc.)
It can raise notifications in a various ways :
- Classic email
- SMS (with a simple phone or a SMS gateway)
- Visual dashboards
- Even Twitter notifications!
- Maintenance periods
- Escalation
- Root cause isolation for notification flood prevention
- Event handlers for proactive actions
- An easy to extend design
Simple and modular discovery module
Start in a few minutes with all your IT configured!
Shinken comes with an easy to use discovery module, able to scan your whole network and systems to help you run your monitoring solution in a few minutes! It can automatically discover :
- Systems (Windows, Gnu/Linux)
- Classic network applications (HTTP, FTP, DNS, etc)
- Databases (MySQL, Oracle)
- Network equipments (Cisco, Nortel)
Prioritize your effort based on business impact
Your IT is there to help your business
You can define objects dependencies in Shinken like a server being connected to a switch, a web page being dependent of a database, or your virtual machine hosted on a VMware server. A business criticality can also be assigned to a service that will apply to any of its dependancies. It allows Shinken to only alert you about the real problems and identify the involved elements. :
- Ability to filter events to the root cause automatically
- Dynamically prioritizes business impacting problems
- Intelligent dependancy validation logic to eliminate event floods and false positives
- Contact notifications for service or host problems and resolution (via e-mail, pager, SMS, or any user-defined method through plugin system)
- Ability to define event handlers to be run during service or host events for proactive problem resolution
VMware auto dependency and VMotion support
Depencies are created automatically, and updated if need be!
You need to know if a VM problem comes from the VM or the ESX host. Shinken can connect to your vSphere server and automatically discover and create dependencies links between your hosts and your virtual machines!
If you move the VM to another host, you don’t need to restart Shinken, it detects the VMotion and update the link automatically too!
Business rules correlation
Get a unique indicator for a whole N tier application!
Today applications are complex, with N tiers architectures. You need to have a simple answer to “Is my application running fine?”. It’s what the business rules are for.
- Ability to define complex correlation rules with & (and), | (or) operators
- Ability to define 1 to N dependancies, allowing for dealing with redundant architectures and hosts.
- Apply correlation rules based on multiple hosts and services without changing their host or services definitions
- All this is done simply with built in compatibility with your current visualization tools!
Keep your Nagios® configuration and plugins !
Don’t fear to loose anything when you will switch!
Shinken is a Nagios® like tool, redesigned and rewritten from scratch to meet today’s requirements of system monitoring, but still allowing with compatibility to the Nagios® ecosystem. So just stop your Nagios daemon, start the Shinken one, and your are done!
Scale Shinken in a few minutes, run it everywhere !
A distributed and high availability architecture by design!
Shinken architecture is it’s major strength : it’s a private cloud based monitoring system!
- Easy to configure dynamic load balancing
- Simple redundancy declaration
- Multiplatform support, like GNU/Linux or Windows, and even mixed architectures!
- Multi tenant support! You can monitor all your customers with a centralized administration!
Manage complex and secure networks
Your DMZ and distant sites are now easy to monitor
Distant sites and DMZ networks are handled by design in the architecture. You can manage all network connections, and handle any connectivity restrictions between your DMZ and internal LAN.
Efficient use of your resources
Monitor a very large IT infrastructure and business services with fewer resources
Shinken allows users to have a huge configuration with lots of dependencies without any issues. It’s OK to monitor more than 10K hosts with a single server.
Large UI diversity
From simple UIs to all in one solutions
You can use the Shinken WebUI or implement Shinken as the backend for other Nagios® compatible UIs such as :
