.. _deprecated/whatsnew: =============================================== Feature comparison between Shinken and Nagios =============================================== Shinken is not just a fork of Nagios. It has been rewritten completely as a modern distributed application while maintaining compatibility with the Nagios configuration, LiveStatus API and check plugins. The major differences are listed below : .. TODO: Update this OLD table ================================================================== ========= ======= ================== =============================================================================================================================================================================================================================================== Feature Nagios Shinken In Shinken roadmap Notes Host/Service monitoring with HARD/SOFT status management Yes Yes NA Active monitoring with plugins Yes Yes NA Passive monitoring Yes Yes NA Compatible with RRDtool based data graphing addons Yes Yes NA Shinken also supports forwarding performance data to Graphite and has native Graphite template based graphs in the WebUI. Network host hierarchy Yes Yes NA Hosts and services dependencies Yes Yes NA Proactive problem resolution Yes Yes NA User-defined notifications Yes Yes NA Notifications escalation Yes Yes NA Syslog logging Yes Yes NA Flap detection Yes Yes NA Obessive compulsive commands Yes Yes NA Itâs not useful in the Shinken architecture but it makes the switch to Shinken easier. State freshness check Yes Yes NA Event broker modules: Livestatus API, ndo, pnp, sqlite etc.. Yes Yes NA Shinken includes a host of native Python modules to make it easy to extend and support. Other supported integration modules : Graphite time-series database, GLPI, MongoDB, memcached, redis and more. Load modules for any daemon. (Poller, Scheduler, Receiver, etc.) No Yes NA Modules can be loaded for any daemon. This makes supporting, extending and scaling Shinken very easy. Graphite integration in the WebUI No Yes NA Graphite is a next-generation time-series database and visualisation web application/API. It stores non interpolated data in a distributed and scalable manner. The current standard RRD interpolates all data limiting its applicability. Notifications escalation is not a pain in the ass to configure No Yes NA You can call an escalation from any host or service. Thatâs way easier to use! Distributed monitoring Hard Yes NA Nagios can do DNX, but itâs not as easy to manage than Shinken architecture, and not as efficient.You think âeasy as in cloudâ?Thatâs Shinken. High availability Hard Yes NA With Nagios, high availability implies a huge performance hit. Distributed AND high availability Hard Yes NA With Nagios, high availability implies a huge performance hit, and it is harder to get working and to maintain. Integrated business rules Hard Yes NA With Nagios itâs an addon, so itâs not easily manageable in a distributed configuration. Problem/impacts Hard Yes NA With Nagios it is only available in the notification part, but with Shinken itâs also available in the real time monitoring views! Easy DMZ monitoring No Yes NA Shinken has poller_tag that allow the user to put a poller in a DMZ and do all DMZhosts/services with it. It make less Firewall holes. UTF-8 support No Yes NA Thank you Python. Now %µ~@^-nöel is supported as a host name. Good performances. No Yes NA Need performance and scalability ? Try that with Nagios⦠Runs on Windows No Yes NA Thank you Python again. Flexible monitoring : direct WMI or Powershell queries! Configure flap history No Yes NA Nagios handles flapping for the 20 latest states only. Itâs hard-coded. In Shinken itâs a configuration option. Impact management No Yes NA For Nagios itâs as important when an incident impacts a qualification application or a production one. Shinken computes dynamically the business impact of the root problem based on criticality! Modern language and program design No Yes NA Python is a forward looking and easy to program language. Shinken was developed using a TDD approach and makes use of modules with all the daemons to make it easy to extend and stability oriented. Modern Web Interface built on twitter bootstart and jquery. No Yes NA Shinken 1.2 introduces a rebuilt WebUI interface which exposes the unique features of the underlying monitoring system. MongoDB distributed DB No Yes NA Shinken 1.0 introduces mongoDB support for Livestatus and as the configuration database for the skonf preview. Configuration pre-cache support Yes No No Pre-cache was useful for host circular relation check. I corrected it in Nagios and in Shinken as well. Pre-cache is no longer a required feature. Limit external command slots Yes No No Shinken does not need to limit the number of external command in queue. Advanced retain options Yes No No No one uses this. Inter check sleep time Yes No No This is a historical Nagios option. Shinken has a real scheduler. Configure reaper time Yes No No Reaping? That is one reason which makes Nagios so slow. Shinken does everything in memory. Auto rescheduling option Hard No Yes In Nagios, itâs still experimental and not documented. This feature is in the roadmap. It can be useful to âsmoothâ the scheduling load. Embedded Perl Yes Hard NA Shinken is in Python. Perl checks can be loaded using persistent perl, which is a near equivalent to embedded perl, it requires changing the first line of each check. So you do this for the most used perl scripts. Embedded Python No Yes NA Shinken is in Python. Checks can be executed as poller or receiver modules for maximum scalability. Regular expression matching Yes No No We believe this is a dangerous feature for the configuration and that most administrators avoid using it. Binary Event broker compatibility Yes No No Shinken does not load binary modules like the ndomod.o file. It has its own loadable modules written in python : ndo, pnp, graphite, mongodb, sqlite, Livestatus API, NSCA, NRPE, TSCA, syslog, merlin and others ================================================================== ========= ======= ================== =============================================================================================================================================================================================================================================== Change Log =========== The **Changelog** file is included in the source root directory of the source code distribution.
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