Latest Monitorix News

3.16.0 version released

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 12:00 +0100

This Monitorix version comes with small changes and just a few fixes. The mature of this tool and mainly my lack of spare time to include new features resulted in a short list of changes. [...]

3.15.0 version released

Wed, 07 Dec 2022 12:00 +0100

This new version introduces two new modules: intelrapl.pm, for monitoring the power consumption of Intel-RAPL capable devices, and amdenergy.pm to monitor also AMD CPU power consumption. [...]

3.14.0 version released

Tue, 18 Jan 2022 12:00 +0100

This new version introduces three new modules: nvme.pm, which is capable of monitoring an unlimited number of NVM Express (NVMe) devices, the amdgpu.pm, to monitor also an unlimited number of AMD GPU graphic cards, and nvidiagpu.pm which can be seen as an extended version of the module nvidia.pm, as it comes with more detailed statistics. [...]

3.13.1 version released

Wed, 27 Jan 2021 12:00 +0100

Monitorix 3.13.0 allows remote attackers to bypass Basic Authentication (if enabled) in a default installation (i.e., an installation without a hosts_deny option). This issue occurred because a new access-control feature was introduced (#274) without considering that some existing installations became unsafe, upon an update to 3.13.0, unless the new feature was immediately configured. [...]

3.13.0 version released

Fri, 22 Jan 2021 10:00 +0100

This new version introduces three new modules: the long-awaited pgsql.pm capable of monitoring up to 9 databases of an unlimited number of PostgreSQL servers, the redis.pm and tinyproxy.pm which are both also capable of monitoring an unlimited number of Redis and Tinyproxy servers respectively. [...]

3.12.0 version released

Fri, 21 Feb 2020 12:00 +0100

This new version introduces two new modules: the phpfpm.pm and the unbound.pm. The first one will allow to collect PHP-FPM statistics and monitor unlimited number of sites, while the unbound.pm module will collect a lot of statistics of the Unbound running in your local server. There is not possibility to collect Unbound statistics from remote servers. In all, both modules come with a fairly complete statistic graphs. [...]

3.11.0 version released

Thu, 14 Mar 2019 15:00 +0100

This new version introduces two new graphs and improves clearly an old one: the System graph. After a notable people demand, I've included a new graph to monitor IPMI sensors (temperatures, fans and voltages). The second new graph monitors an unlimited number of MongoDB servers (either local or remote). As said, the System graph has been improved and now it includes two new subgraphs: one that shows the system's entropy and another that shows the uptime of the system. The memory graph has also been enhanced including the values of memory active and inactive. [...]

3.10.1 version released

Thu, 15 Mar 2018 10:00 +0100

Prior Monitorix versions are vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS), caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the monitorix.cgi file. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using some of the arguments provided (graph= or when=) in a specially-crafted URL to execute script in a victim's Web browser within the security context of the hosting Web site, once the URL is clicked. An attacker could use this vulnerability to steal the victim's cookie-based authentication credentials. [...]

3.10.0 version released

Mon, 25 Sep 2017 17:00 +0100

3.9.0 version released

Fri, 14 Oct 2016 13:00 +0100

This new version introduces three more graphs and, as always, it also introduces new features and fixes some interesting bugs. The first new graph offers the possibility to monitor the network queue disciplines (qdiscs) associated to a network interface (also called Linux Traffic Control). The second graph monitors chrony,the new NTP daemon that comes with some newer Linux distributions. Finally the third new graph monitors these temperature and CPU frequency sensors that appear (depending on your motherboard) in the /sys/devices/ filesystem tree. [...]

3.8.1 version released

Fri, 13 Nov 2015 16:00 +0100

This is a maintenance release that mainly fixes a Document Object Model (DOM)-based cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the monitorix.cgi file. Such vulnerability is by injection a JS code in the 'when=' parameter of the URL shown after generating the graphs. Additionally, a potential denial of service (DoS) issue was discovered in the same 'when=' parameter of the URL which could lead in the creation of an enormous amount of '.png' files in the 'imgs' directory of the server. [...]

3.8.0 version released

Wed, 16 Sep 2015 21:00 +0100

This new version introduces four new graphs and a number of new features, (of course, lots of bugs were also fixed). The first new graph shows the directory usage (based on the output of the du command) from a list defined in the configuration file. This is really useful when you want to keep an eye on the size of some specific directories. The second one is a ZFS statistics graph, which is specially useful for these people using such special file system in their servers. It can monitor an unlimited number of pools. [...]

3.7.0 version released

Thu, 12 Mar 2015 10:00 +0100

Another new version that introduces two new graphs; the first one is a new Varnish cache statistics graph which hopefully covers all the most important values. It was created using the Varnish version 3.0.6, so I hope it will be also compatible with the new 4.0 version. The second graph covers the Verlihub statistics and was developed and provided by an external user. [...]

HOWTO install Monitorix on Slackware

Sat, 06 Dec 2014 10:00 +0100

There is a new HOWTO detailing the installation of Monitorix 3.6.0 on Slackware 12. Thanks Czezz for this contribution!

Work-around for a bug in the new Makefile

Thu, 21 Aug 2014 11:00 +0100

The previous version introduced the new Makefile which was affected by some bugs that caused a bad installation of the Monitorix modules. This new file is intended to provide more flexibility to packagers. It also helps to standarize the installation for users that don't have a packaged version for their systems. [...]

3.6.0 version released

Wed, 20 Aug 2014 11:00 +0100

This new version introduces two new graphs; one that is Linux specific to monitor an unlimited number of user processes (including CPU usage, memory usage, disk usage, network usage, opened files, number of threads, number of voluntary and involuntary context switches and number of instances of the same process). The other new graph is to monitor also an unlimited number of virtual machines (using the libvirt manager) and also covers CPU, memory, disk and network usages. [...]

3.5.1 version released

Tue, 06 May 2014 11:00 +0100

This is a maintenance release that mainly fixes a pair of bugs. The first one was already announced and it included a work-around. The second one was recently reported by some users and affected directly the Email Reports graph, which was sending emails with no graphs. [...]

Work-around for the 'ERROR: line 1237: expected /row> element but found v>' bug

Thu, 03 Apr 2014 22:30 +0100

I've noticed that some people (depending of the RRDtool version installed) while updating to 3.5.0 from older versions have experienced a problem when starting the new 3.5.0 version. There is a bug in the conversion of the fs.rrd file that prevents to complete it successfully with the message ERROR: line 1237: expected /row> element but found v>. [...]

3.5.0 version released

Mon, 24 Mar 2014 20:30 +0100

This new version introduces a lot of changes, lots of new features and of course, lots of bugs fixed. First things first, there are two new graphs; one to monitor an unlimited number of APC UPS devices (using the apcupsd daemon), and the other to monitor the details of the current network connections (IPv4 and IPv6) including protocol-specific statistics using the netstat command. [...]

3.4.0 version released

Mon, 02 Dec 2013 11:00 +0100

This version introduces some interesting new features. A complete new graph to monitor an unlimited number of Memcached installations, a new option called max_historic_years to be able to configure how many years of historical data will be kept (up to 5 years), two new alerts in the disk graph to control the disks health, etc. [...]

3.3.1 version released

Thu, 21 Nov 2013 11:00 +0100

This is a maintenance release that fixes a serious bug in the built-in HTTP server. It was discovered that the handle_request() routine did not properly perform input sanitization which led into a number of security vulnerabilities. [...]

3.3.0 version released

Mon, 12 Aug 2013 10:00 +0100

This version introduces mainly two new graphs; one to monitor an unlimited number of Wowza Media Servers and another to monitor an unlimited number of Alternative PHP Cache installations either in local or remote web servers. The Wowza graph is able to monitor up to 9 applications per server and it shows the current number of connections, the messages bytes rate, connections accepted/refused and number of sessions of the streams. The following is an example of the new Wowza graph: [...]

Rebuilt the Debian/Ubuntu package

Tue, 30 Jul 2013 00:30 +0100

Andreas Itzchak Rehberg (Izzy) recently rebuilt the current 3.2.1 version of the Debian/Ubuntu package which fixes a wrong default group name in the group option of the built-in HTTP server. Such bug prevented from starting the HTTP server with the following error message:

3.2.1 version released

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 10:00 +0100

This is an enhancement release but also includes a fix for the stupid bug, included in the latest version, which prevented from seeing the Core temperatures in the LM-Sensors graph. The improvements in this version are mainly in the built-in HTTP server, which from now on includes the ability to use the Basic access authentication mechanism to access the web server. It also includes the ability to deny and/or allow IP addresses with the new host_deny and host_allow options. [...]

Monitorix is now in the official Fedora repositories

Tue, 28 May 2013 23:00 +0100

Great news! Thanks to the effort of Christopher Meng Monitorix is now included in the official Fedora repositories. Users of Fedora 18 (and soon 19) and EPEL 6 can now easily install Monitorix using the standard repositories and tools. [...]

Work-around for bug in the LM-Sensors graph

Wed, 15 May 2013 18:00 +0100

The previous version introduced a bug that prevents seeing the Core temperatures. Fortunately the zoomed graph is not affected by this bug, so you can still see the Core temperatures if you click on the main graph. [...]

3.2.0 version released

Mon, 13 May 2013 12:00 +0100

This version introduces a new major feature, a new graph to monitor the sensors of a Raspberry Pi card, which includes its clock frequencies, temperature and voltages. This graph requires to have installed the command vcgencmd that should come with the Raspberry Pi firmware. [...]

Updated the Debian/Ubuntu package

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:00 +0100

Andreas Itzchak Rehberg (Izzy) recently upgraded to 3.1.0 version the Debian/Ubuntu package. Many thanks!

3.1.0 version released

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 09:00 +0100

This is mainly a bug fixing version which also includes a new FTP statistics graph. This new graph supports either ProFTPD and vsftpd log file formats, and although it covers the most basic aspects of an FTP server it should be very useful for daily monitoring. [...]

3.0.0 version released

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:00 +0100

Finally the 3.0.0 is out! With the release of the 3.0.0 version Monitorix suffered another large rewrite which became into a complete modular code structure reducing in some cases its memory footprint. That new version also includes a number of new features, cleaned up all the code, fixed a lot of bugs and has a safest code as it uses 'strict' and 'warnings' in all its modules. [...]

3.0.0beta2 version released

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:00 +0100

This new beta release includes a number of improvements in the MySQL graph thanks to Luca Ferrario who continuously sends feedback for improving such graph. This new version also includes a new feature in the Network Port traffic accounting to support either incoming and outgoing connections. Unfortunately this forced to change the internal structure of the port.rrd file, so a new one will be rebuilt in the next restart losing all the historical data. [...]

3.0.0beta1 version released

Sat, 12 Jan 2013 18:30 +0100

This is the first release of the new 3.0 branch. In this new 3.0.0beta1 version Monitorix has suffered a massive rewrite and now it has a modular code structure reducing, in some cases, its memory footprint and offering the ability to package every graph independently, making it more suitable for embedded systems. [...]

Source code moved to GitHub

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:30 +0100

I'm pleased to announce that I've finally moved the source code of Monitorix to GitHub. GitHub is clearly a better environment for open source projects. I think that this move will make much easier for users to contribute, making the project even better. Fork the git repository at https://github.com/mikaku/Monitorix!

2.6.0 version released

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:30 +0100

This version introduces several new major features. The first one refers to a new graph to monitor an unlimited number of BIND name servers, which includes a complete and overall state of a BIND server. Its seven nested graphs cover the most important and relevant status information which should help System Administrators to monitor it easily. [...]

2.5.2 version released

Mon, 21 May 2012 21:30 +0100

This is another maintenance release which mainly fixes a stupid bug introduced in the latest version. Such bug prevented the creation of the mysql.rrd file in fresh installations. [...]

Work-around for bug in the MySQL graph

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:00 +0100

The previous version introduced a bug that affects the creation of the mysql.rrd file in new Monitorix installations. The following error message would appear in the /var/log/monitorix file: [...]

2.5.1 version released

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:00 +0100

This is mainly a maintenance version with some bugs fixed, being the most important, a bug that prevented monitoring multiple MySQL servers. This new version also includes some improvements like the support to use the socket file for the connection to the MySQL server and the new option IMAP_DATE_LOG_FORMAT to help to match with the Dovecot date log format. [...]

Updated the Debian package

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:30 +0100

Andreas Itzchak Rehberg recently updated the 2.5.0 Debian package which addresses the installation problems mainly in "unstable" and "testing" systems:

2.5.0 version released

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:30 +0100

This version introduces two new graphs to monitor unlimited number of Lighttpd web servers and Fail2ban jails. Also the MTA statistics graph has been enhanced convering much more information and including full support for Postfix. As always, all graphs have been created following the classical Monitorix style, while at the same time, attempting to be as much complete as possible. [...]

Updated the Gentoo package

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:00 +0100

Matthew Connelly recently upgraded to 2.4.1 version the Gentoo package. Many thanks!

2.4.1 version released

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:00 +0100

This version comes with a lot of interesting changes like the support for Dovecot 1.2 log format, the support for Polish language in monthly reports, and a lot of new support and changes in the System Services Demand graph which includes the CommuniGate log format and the Fail2ban monitoring. [...]

2.4.0 version released

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:00 +0100

This version introduces three new graphs to monitor the Squid Proxy Web Cache, the NTP server and the Icecast Streaming Media Server. All graphs have been created following the classical Monitorix layout while, at the same time, attempting to be as much complete as possible. [...]

Updated the Debian package

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 19:00 +0100

Łukasz Kędra recently updated to 2.3.0 the Debian package. Many thanks!

2.3.0 version released

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 12:00 +0100

This version introduces two new interesting graphs to monitor NFS server and client statistics supporting NFS versions 2, 3 and 4. These new graphs are pretty complete covering almost all the values shown in the '/proc/net/rpc/nfsd' and '/proc/net/rpc/nfs' files respectively, and also include the ability to configure the list of NFS requests to be shown. [...]

Updated the Debian package

Thu, 26 Jul 2011 22:00 +0100

Jörg Alpers recently sent an upgrade of the Debian package to support the change in the 'update-rc' function in Debian 6. [...]

Introducing the Debian package

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:00 +0100

Thanks to the special contribution of Jörg Alpers there is now a Debian package for the version 2.2.0, you'll find the link in the downloads page. [...]

2.2.0 version released

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:00 +0100

This version introduces two new major features. The first one refers to a new MySQL statistics multigraph which includes a complete and an overall state of the current performance of a MySQL server. The six nested graphs cover the most important and relevant status information which should help System Administrators to optimize their MySQL server accordingly. [...]

2.1.2 version released

Tue, 04 May 2011 12:00 +0100

This version comes with some interesting changes. One of the most important is a new command line parameter to save the PID (process ID) into the specified file. This is mainly done to make the life easier to the 'rc' scripts. [...]

2.1.1 version released

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:00 +0100

This is mainly a bug fixing version which also includes a pair of improvements. The most noticeable is the support for the new 'Idrop' column in the output of the 'netstat' command appeared in FreeBSD 8.0 and newer versions. [...]

2.1.0 version released

Tue, 09 Mar 2011 18:00 +0100

This version introduces some features that weren't completed in time for the release of 2.0.0 version. The most important improvement is the completion of the PC LAN monthly traffic reports, which includes the same language support that existed in the 1.5.x branch (Català, English, Deutsch and Italiano). [...]

2.0.0 version released

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 10:00 +0100

Finally the 2.0.0 is out! With this new version Monitorix has suffered a complete rewrite, including new features and graphs, added more support, cleaned up all the code, updated and enhanced a number of aspects in some graphs, and fixed a lot of bugs. The most important change is that it no longer requires crond to work, instead Monitorix is now a complete standalone Perl daemon being started and stopped like any other system service. [...]

Latest news about Monitorix 2.0

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:00 +0100

After more time working, I show here the latest development status of the Monitorix 2.0, and this concludes the news about its graphs: [...]

More news about Monitorix 2.0

Thu, 21 Dec 2010 15:00 +0100

After some time working, I wanted to show what are the latest news of the current development of Monitorix 2.0: [...]

More news about Monitorix 2.0

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:00 +0100

Continuing the idea started in October of showing how is going the development in Monitorix 2.0, the following is a new list of the graphs implemented since the last post and their features: [...]

1.5.2 version released

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:00 +0100

This version is if not the latest one of the latest before the release of the next branch 2.0 expected to be early next year. As a new features it includes a new alert capability based on the usage of the root filesystem. [...]

News about Monitorix 2.0

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 18:00 +0100

Two months ago I started creating the new Monitorix 2.0. I'm very excited with it and I'm working hard to offer you a nicer piece of software. It is being rewriten completely and the most important change is that it no longer depends on crond for working. [...]

Monitorix added to FreeBSD ports

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:00 +0100

Since 18 August, Monitorix is now officialy in the FreeBSD ports mainly thanks to the initial work by Michael Brune and finally to the rest of people that thankfully ended the job. See https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=146776 for an excerpt of the porting process. [...]

1.5.1 version released

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:00 +0100

This version comes with a number of changes, improvements and several bug fixes. The most noticeable change is how are represented the Network Port activity graphs since the rigid value has been relaxed, changing it from 2 to 0. This will scale the graphs automatically by default. [...]

1.5.0 version released

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:00 +0100

This new version introduces a new major feature; a complete MTA statistics graph. The internal layout of this new graph follows the standard Monitorix model with a central graph on the left and two smaller graphs on the right. [...]

1.4.2 version released

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:00 +0100

This new version doesn't comes with any big and relevant change, except by the fact that Monitorix is now able to automatically detect the amount of memory in the system. The $MEMORY option is now only used to force a specific amount of memory. The other change [...]

1.4.1 version released

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 09:00 +0100

This new version comes with some different improvements. The most noticeable is a wider mount point column in the disk usage graph in order to fit longer pathnames. On the other hand I've made some cleaning in the Monitorix logos to support transparency, [...]

New web site restyling

Tue, 30 Dec 2009 18:00 +0100

I was tempted to rewrite all this web site to use exclusively CSS styles instead of using so many 'tables', and I did it finally!. In the process I've included some restyling to give it a more modern look. [...]

SuSE packages updated to 1.4.0

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:00 +0100

Thanks to the special contribution of Oliver Kaltenecker the packages for SuSE Linux are again updated to the current Monitorix version.

1.4.0 version released

Tue, 05 Oct 2009 16:00 +0100

This new version introduces two new major features. The first one refers to a new mode of how is represented the data. Until now the only way to represent the data was using graphs, now it's possible to represent it using plain text tables. [...]

0.1.0 pyMonitorix initial version released

Tue, 11 Sep 2009 16:00 +0100

pyMonitorix is a free open source applet desktop application that acts as a frontend of Monitorix installed on a local or remote server(s). It is useful for those that want to monitorize their servers without having to keep up and running a browser for doing that.

1.3.2 version released

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:00 +0100

Good news with this release. It has been improved a lot the support for FreeBSD systems specially those since the 6.2-RELEASE. Although there are still a pair of aspects than doesn't work yet, the support is almost complete. [...]

Introducing the Gentoo ebuild package

Tue, 12 Aug 2009 16:00 +0100

Thanks to the special contribution of Markus Rennings there is now a Gentoo build for the version 1.3.1, you'll find the link in the download page.

1.3.1 version released

Tue, 05 Aug 2009 16:00 +0100

This is mainly a bug fixing version that affects all the installation process for Ubuntu and Debian systems. I would like to express my apologies to all people using Ubuntu and those that were unable to install Monitorix due to the errors in the paths of some Monitorix components, [...]

1.3.0 version released

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:00 +0100

This new version introduces the long awaited Monitorix man page with all the configuration options well documented and in a format easy to read and understand. It has been placed in the Section 5 of man pages, [...]

1.2.4 version released

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:30 +0100

This release fixes an important bug that duplicated the iptables rules created by Monitorix on every start or restart, so all users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. [...]

1.2.3 version released

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:30 +0100

This is mainly a maintenance version that fixes several issues. It has been changed the way how Monitorix creates the iptables rules that prevented one from seeing the INPUT chain activity in the defined network ports. Another change directly affected the init script where it has been removed the dependency of the command [...]