Using The Icingastats Utility
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## Using The Icingastats Utility

Introduction

A utility called icingastats is included in the Icinga distribution. It is compiled and installed along with the main Icinga daemon. The icingastats utility allows you to obtain various information about a running Icinga process that can be very helpful in tuning performance. You can obtain information either in human-readable or performance data compatible format.

Usage Information

You can run the icingastats utility with the --help option to get usage information.

Human-Readable Output

To obtain human-readable information on the performance of a running Icinga process, run the icingastats utility with the -c command line argument to specify your main configuration file location like such:

    [icinga@monitoring ~]# /usr/local/icinga/bin/icingastats -c /usr/local/icinga/etc/icinga.cfg

    Icinga Stats 1.7
    Copyright (c) 2009 Nagios Core Development Team and Community Contributors
    Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Ethan Galstad
    Last Modified: 02-16-2011
    License: GPL

    CURRENT STATUS DATA
    ------------------------------------------------------
    Status File:                            /usr/local/icinga/var/status.dat
    Status File Age:                        0d 0h 0m 27s
    Status File Version:                    1.3.0

    Program Running Time:                   0d 14h 28m 16s
    Icinga PID:                             21182
    Used/High/Total Command Buffers:        0 / 3 / 4096

    Total Services:                         1001
    Services Checked:                       945
    Services Scheduled:                     950
    Services Actively Checked:              1000
    Services Passively Checked:             1
    Total Service State Change:             0.000 / 100.000 / 1.881 %
    Active Service Latency:                 0.000 / 285.165 / 25.045 sec
    Active Service Execution Time:          0.000 / 304.925 / 0.834 sec
    Active Service State Change:            0.000 / 100.000 / 1.883 %
    Active Services Last 1/5/15/60 min:     20 / 191 / 471 / 926
    Passive Service Latency:                0.862 / 0.862 / 0.862 sec
    Passive Service State Change:           0.000 / 0.000 / 0.000 %
    Passive Services Last 1/5/15/60 min:    1 / 1 / 1 / 1
    Services Ok/Warn/Unk/Crit:              816 / 56 / 51 / 78
    Services Flapping:                      39
    Services In Downtime:                   0

    Total Hosts:                            111
    Hosts Checked:                          104
    Hosts Scheduled:                        104
    Hosts Actively Checked:                 111
    Host Passively Checked:                 0
    Total Host State Change:                0.000 / 100.000 / 10.574 %
    Active Host Latency:                    0.000 / 279.257 / 21.700 sec
    Active Host Execution Time:             0.000 / 6.405 / 0.432 sec
    Active Host State Change:               0.000 / 100.000 / 10.574 %
    Active Hosts Last 1/5/15/60 min:        17 / 50 / 74 / 104
    Passive Host Latency:                   0.000 / 0.000 / 0.000 sec
    Passive Host State Change:              0.000 / 0.000 / 0.000 %
    Passive Hosts Last 1/5/15/60 min:       0 / 0 / 0 / 0
    Hosts Up/Down/Unreach:                  89 / 7 / 15
    Hosts Flapping:                         22
    Hosts In Downtime:                      0

    Active Host Checks Last 1/5/15 min:     73 / 97 / 246
       Scheduled:                           13 / 21 / 50
       On-demand:                           60 / 76 / 196
       Parallel:                            45 / 63 / 171
       Serial:                              0 / 0 / 0
       Cached:                              28 / 34 / 75
    Passive Host Checks Last 1/5/15 min:    0 / 0 / 0
    Active Service Checks Last 1/5/15 min:  142 / 192 / 501
       Scheduled:                           142 / 192 / 500
       On-demand:                           0 / 0 / 1
       Cached:                              0 / 0 / 0
    Passive Service Checks Last 1/5/15 min: 6 / 6 / 15

    External Commands Last 1/5/15 min:      6 / 6 / 15

    [icinga@monitoring ~]#

As you can see, the utility displays a number of different metrics pertaining to the Icinga process. Metrics which have multiple values are (unless otherwise specified) min, max and average values for that particular metric.

PNP4Nagios Integration

You can use the icingastats utility to display various Icinga metrics using PNP4Nagios (or other compatible programmes). To do so, run the icingastats utility using the --mrtg and --data arguments. The --data argument is used to specify what statistics should be graphed. Possible values for the --data argument can be found by running the icingastats utility with the --help option.

| Note
Information on using the icingastats utility to generate PNP4Nagios graphs for Icinga performance statistics can be found here.

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