Hello Watchers, the holiday season is behind us.
We took some rest and chose to group Monitoring Packs features and enhancements from August and September in a single release.
A lot of thrilling features and ideas have been implemented during this period. All the centreon-plugins team hopes you’ll enjoy it. We also got exciting contributions from the community, and we love it! Shortly, some dedicated posts will appear on your favorite community platform to focus on some of this release’s highlights.
Continue reading to get a quick overview of what you can expect from this release, and indeed if you want to deep dive into all the technical details, make sure to check the release note.
New Monitoring Packs available
Cloud Monitoring
From major players like AWS or Azure to a more specific one like Informatica and its data integration service, discover new Packs to deploy a complete, intelligent and cost-controlled cloud monitoring as efficiently as possible. You can find all monitorable assets from an AWS region in minutes!
Flexible IT-Monitoring
Node Exporter Windows Metrics & Fortinet Fortigate Rest API brings new capabilities to monitor your Windows systems and network devices. Check out these new Packs assets on the documentation to know how to use them to enhance your existing monitoring setup.
Hardware and appliances
We released some new Packs for various hardware, including network devices (Netgear S-Series), appliances (Cisco Umbrella), and HCI (Dell EMC VxRail Manager).
Enhancements
Discovery
Tag management with VMWare Discovery rules, SNMP Discovery customization, Prometheus Targets, EC2 platform details discovery … A bunch of enhancements to make your life easier and reduce the time-to-monitoring.
Up-to-date monitoring
We’ve updated a lot of probes to make them compliant with the latest firmwares and APIs versions.
We also added some new modes and metrics to many of them. Check out the release note to know everything (don’t stay like Jon Snow)!
Enhancements impacting current configurations
Heads-up! We reworked all legacy Azure Packs. It requires you to be careful in your upgrade operation to ensure that both Pack and Plugin use the same version. Have a doubt? Take advantage of the ‘Automatic plugin installation’ feature!
Bugfixes
If you use one of the Packs above, you should consider upgrading. Fixed bugs might have more or less impact depending on how you use these Packs. If you want to know if you’re in a situation requiring a quick upgrade, the simple thing is to check the release note.