The version 28 of the Nagios Plugins for Linux (“Alpine Hike”) is available for download!

The Nagios Plugins for Linux is a free and open source set of Nagios and Icinga plugins for monitoring the major system parameters of a Linux server. The source code is available at GitHub. You can find the documentation in the project main page or the associated wiki site.

What’s new in this release

Fixes

A few Clang and GCC warnings have been fixed.

Enhancements

New plugin check_pressure that reports the Linux Pressure Stall Information (PSI) exported by Linux kernels 4.20+ (in the /proc/pressure/ folder).

check_pressure --cpu  # return the cpu pressure metrics
check_pressure --io  # return the io (block layer/filesystems) pressure metrics
check_pressure --memory  # return the memory pressure metrics

Build system

Here are some notable news:

• Integrate Nagios Plugins for Linux with GitHub Workflow tests;
• Add Linux Alpine and Ubuntu to the list of supported and automatically tested Linux distributions;
• Update the list of supported platforms by adding Alpine 3.12 and Fedora 33;
• Make the packages/docker-shell-helpers folder a git submodule.

Package creation

A Linux Alpine (3.12) native package can be now created by running the command

make -C packages alpine-3.12