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Posts in 2024
  • Die Anmeldung für den Monitoring-Workshop 2024 ist geöffnet

    Thursday, March 07, 2024 in Releases

    Es ist soweit! Wir haben jetzt eine Registrierungsseite für den Workshop: Open-Source-Monitoring-Workshop 2024. Haut in die Tasten! Mittlerweile sind auch einige tolle Vorträge zusammengekommen: Telemetriedatenerfassung und Überwachung von Schwimmbädern - Michael Kraus Application Performance Monitoring - Sascha Brechmann SNClient - Sven Nierlein Coshsh - Gerhard Laußer SPACE - “End-2-End-Webseiten-Monitoring” bei der Schwarz Gruppe - Frank Aigner STACKIT Argus, wie wir einen Cloud-Monitoring-Service gebaut haben - H. Bogner, S. Rauh, O. Gnapp Einsatz von OMD Labs als Monitoring Lösung für die Schwarz Gruppe - Tobias Kempf Weitere Referenten sind natürlich willkommen. Schlagt eure Präsentation im Channel #vorträge des monitoring-portal Discord Servers vor. Halbe Stunde, zehn Minuten, egal. …

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  • SNClient 0.19 was released

    Wednesday, February 28, 2024 in Releases

    A new version of SNClient was released. Breaking Changes none Features add check_os_updates Changed write startup errors to default logfile check_drivesize: add freespace-ignore-reserved option Bugfixes fix wrapped scripts not found fix check_drivesize using random volume for sub path fix check_drivesize using root folder when checking non-existing path fix perf-config when using REST API fix timeout handling (fixes #96) fix check_files skipping folder to early fix check_eventlog using event id Download https://github.com/ConSol-Monitoring/snclient/releases/tag/v0.19

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  • SNClient 0.17 was released

    Thursday, February 01, 2024 in Releases

    A new version of SNClient was released. Breaking Changes none Features support += operator in config files Changed create logfile folder unless it exists update windows exporter to 0.25.1 Bugfixes fix check_process username being empty sometimes fix check_cpu_utilization calculation fix automatic log rotation on windows Download https://github.com/ConSol-Monitoring/snclient/releases/tag/v0.17

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  • OMD 5.30 was released

    Monday, January 29, 2024 in Releases

    A new version of OMD was released. Changelog Thruk: update to 3.12 LMD: update to 2.1.9 Monitoring-Plugins: update to 2.3.5 Gearman: Mod-Gearman module: update to 5.1.3 Mod-gearman-worker-go: update to 1.3.8 VictoriaMetrics: update to 1.93.1 (LTS) Prometheus: Prometheus: 2.45.2 Alertmanager: 0.26.0 Pushgateway: 1.6.0 Grafana: Grafana: 10.2.3 Thruk datasource: update to 2.0.4 Enable wal for internal sqlite db Histou: update to 0.5.1 Go builds: update to 1.21.6 Download https://omd.consol.de/docs/omd/#download

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  • SNClient 0.16 was released

    Wednesday, January 10, 2024 in Releases

    A new release of SNClient was released. Breaking Changes none Features add check_ntp_offset add check_mailq add check_connections add check_process cpu metrics add reload support for systemd service add metrics to check_os_version add metrics to check_snclient_version Changed improve check_process output improve check_service linux performance use state from metric checks for final result check_service: adjust default warn/crit condition if service argument is used (#72) Bugfixes fix using arguments in aliased checks (#69) fix metrics order when using check_nsc_web fix wrong path in logrotation on linux fix check_drivesize using percent thresholds Download https://github.com/ConSol-Monitoring/snclient/releases/tag/v0.16

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Posts in 2023
  • SNClient 0.15 was released

    Saturday, December 16, 2023 in Releases

    A new release of SNClient was released. Breaking Changes none Features Changed improve counter memory consumption change internal wmi library Bugfixes fix check_temperature default thresholds fix check_kernel_stats listing processes and threads fix wmi based checks memory usage fix check_eventlog memory usage Download https://github.com/ConSol-Monitoring/snclient/releases/tag/v0.15

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  • SNClient 0.14 was released

    Tuesday, December 12, 2023 in Releases

    A new release of SNClient was released. Breaking Changes none Features add cli inventory mode add duration / age / date / human number macro post processors add support for %{} macros and $() as well add timeout to check_drivesize for hanging mounts add check_cpu_utilization add check_mount add check_temperature add check_kernel_stats add fmt macro operator to formt numbers add automatic retries to wmi querys add /api/v1/admin/reload rest endpoint to initialize config changes add /api/v1/admin/certs/replace rest endpoint to replace certificates Changed check_service (linux): add rss/vms/cpu/task metric and remove generic mem metric check_service: add more metrics support different allowed hosts settings for each web handler Bugfixes fix cpu check on osx not returning metrics Download …

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  • Monitoring-Workshop 2024 ist hiermit angekündigt

    Tuesday, December 05, 2023 in Releases

    So, Herrschaften, es geht wieder los! Die Tradition des jährlichen Monitoring-Workshops der deutschsprachigen Community (ja, ja, ich weiß, der Satz ist feinstes Denglish) wird wiederbelebt. 2019 fand das letzte Treffen statt und seitdem hat sich eine Menge getan. Wer Monitoring-Software schreibt ist hier genauso richtig wie jemand, der sich Rat zum Betrieb seiner Landschaft holen will. Breaking Changes: Nix, es wird so toll wie eh und je. Features Vorträge über neue Entwicklungen Vorstellung bestehender Installationen Fachsimpeln Praxis und Hilfestellung Wirtshausbesuch Für die konkreten Themen und dem Termin bitte dem Download-Link folgen. Dort wird sich nach und nach eine Agenda formen. Und damit was vorangeht, ist jeder zum Mitmachen aufgefordert. Bitte anmelden, sich kurz vorstellen …

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  • check_nwc_health 11.2.2 was released

    Thursday, November 30, 2023 in Releases

    A new version of check_nwc_health was released. Breaking Changes: Features The --mode interface-errdisabled will show you if an interface was forcibly disabled (Cisco and Arista only) Errdisable is a feature of most switches running IOS. When a port is in err-disabled state, it is shut down and traffic can no longer pass thru. Reasons for this are numerous, it will be shown in the plugin output. The same feature was also implemented by Arista. You might find it under different names like “ErrDisabled”, “Error Disabled”, “Errdisable State” and so on… ... --mode interface-errdisabled CRITICAL - GigabitEthernet5/0/28 (alias IP Phone)/vlan 0 is disabled, reason: stormControl, GigabitEthernet4/0/45 (alias User Port)/vlan 0 is disabled, reason: bpduGuard ... --mode interface-errdisabled --name …

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  • SNClient 0.13 was released

    Thursday, November 23, 2023 in Releases

    A new release of SNClient was released. Breaking Changes: Features Add node exporter to osx packages Add check_load plugin Add folder size support to check_files (#38) Add basic promethes metrics check_eventlog: finish implementing Changed Drop privileges when running node exporter Update node exporter to 1.7.0 Improve docs and help pages Bugfixes Fix reading empty config files (#58) Fix packaging for debian <= 12 Download https://github.com/ConSol-Monitoring/snclient/releases/tag/v0.13

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