Opsview: The Next Chapter

Back in October 2008, Opsera acquired Altinity on the strength of the Opsview product and our customer and user base. It was a great marriage as Opsera were providing IT consultancy and wanted to expand into products, of which Opsview is now added with Ops Mail Manager. And there are some really smart people working at Opsera, which is always a good thing!

Since then, we've been really busy integrating Altinity's IT systems and procedures with the rest of Opsera, taking the best practices from both companies. And with Opsera being a larger organisation, we've had more resources to handle the large number of new customers and work requests.

So it gives us great pleasure to announce the availability of Opsview 3. We've been working really hard over the last few months to get this release out.

The number one question we had towards the middle of last year was: "When will you use Nagios 3"? This was quite funny because we've been involved in getting lots of our changes into Nagios 3, as we've worked with the community on enhancing the core software. But there have been some other great changes in Nagios 3, so it's good to get back to the edge of the Nagios development cycle.

(As an aside, we used to have 39 patches that we made to Nagios 2.10, but against Nagios 3.0.6 we only have 26 patches - our aim is to have as little as possible. We've also seen one problem during our testing which we've contributed back and has been included in the main code. We've got some more patches to Nagios which are good for general use, which we'll blog about soon.)

So, Opsview 3 is here now, based on Nagios 3 and lots of other goodies. And it is all released under GPL.

You can see more about Opsview and our unique take on status views and configuration in our new Quick Start guide.