Shinken
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The facts
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What it does
- Architecture
- Its architecture separates work across role-specific daemons, and additional daemons can be installed on other servers for load balancing.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Availability
- The project describes high availability through spare daemons.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Business rules
- Shinken supports business rules such as notifying when three of five servers are down.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Configuration imports
- Documented configuration import sources include GLPI, Amazon EC2, MySQL, MongoDB, and Canonical Landscape.checked 11 Oct 2026
- High availability
- The documentation says Shinken daemons can have spare instances for high availability.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Installation
- The documentation describes installation from PyPI with pip or from a source tarball on GNU/Linux and Unix, and manual setup.py installation on Windows.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Documented data and interface integrations include Graphite, InfluxDB, MySQL, Oracle, WebUI, Thruk, Nagvis, and PNP4Nagios.checked 11 Oct 2026
- License
- Shinken is distributed under the GNU Affero General Public License.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Monitoring coverage
- Documented plugin use cases include Unix/Linux and Windows servers, network devices, web and mail services, databases, and applications.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Monitoring packs
- Shinken packs provide prebuilt check commands, host and service templates, discovery rules, and hooks for deployment and updates.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Notable limit
- Check plugins are not distributed with Shinken and must be obtained separately or created by the user.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Product
- Shinken is an open-source, Python-based monitoring framework designed to scale to large environments.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Project history
- The project documentation says Shinken was created in 2009 and its first release was on December 1, 2009.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Protocols
- Its integrated data-acquisition modules support NRPE and SNMP, while plugins can use protocols including WMI, SSH, TCP, UDP, ICMP, and LDAP.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- It monitors hosts and network services and uses check-plugin results to determine their status and performance data.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Scalability
- The project describes adding daemons on other servers to distribute work through load balancing.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Security
- The manual has a Security Considerations section, but the opened overview does not state a security certification or compliance claim.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support
- The project directs users to its GitHub issue list to report bugs and asks them to include reproduction steps, software version, and operating system version.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Who it is for
- The project describes Shinken as a flexible monitoring framework for large environments and says realms can monitor independent environments or customers.checked 11 Oct 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2009checked 28 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Nagios compatibility
- Shinken supports the Nagios configuration standard and plugins, allowing existing Nagios configurations to be reused.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Platform support
- The project README says Shinken works on operating systems and architectures that support Python, including Windows, GNU/Linux, and FreeBSD.checked 11 Oct 2026
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