page_title: Icinga
section_title: Extended functionality
hierarchical_section_title: Icinga / Extended functionality
caption_attribution_description: English: Screenshot of Icinga Web 1.8 with integrated Business Process View add-on
context_page_description: Icinga is an open-source computer system and network monitoring application. It was originally created as a fork of the Nagios system monitoring application in 2009.
  Icinga is attempting to get past perceived shortcomings in Nagios' development process, as well as adding new features such as a modern Web 2.0 style user interface, additional database connectors, and a REST API that lets administrators integrate numerous extensions without complicated modification of the Icinga core.
  The Icinga developers also seek to reflect community needs more closely and to integrate patches more quickly. The first stable version, 1.0, was released in December 2009, and the version counter had risen every couple of months as of January 2010.
  Icinga was included by Jeffrey Hammond of Forrester Research in a list of "waxing" open source projects based on its rate of commits.
  The name Icinga is a Zulu word meaning "it looks for", "it browses" or "it examines" and is pronounced with a click consonant.
context_section_description: Icinga is compatible with all plug-ins and the majority of add-ons written for Nagios, especially for users opting for the Icinga Classic UI. Popular add-ons to extend Icinga's functionality include:
  Performance graphing (e.g. PNP4Nagios, NagiosGrapher, InGraph)
  Configuration interfaces and tools (e.g. Nconf (tool for configuring Nagios), NagiosQL, LConf)
  Business process monitoring (e.g. Business Process Addons)
  Network visualization (e.g. NagVis, Nagmap)
  Windows monitoring (e.g. NSClient++, Cygwin)
  SNMP trap monitoring (e.g. SNMPTT, NagTrap)
caption: Screenshot of Icinga Web 1.8 with integrated Business Process View add-on
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