# istamon

A simple Desktop application and cli that displays the service and host states of an
[Icinga](https://icinga.com/) instance. 

Icinga is an IT monitoring system that does periodic reachability checks for hosts and health checks for services on these hosts. Istamon shows the current status of these checks.

Istamon is inspired by [nagstamon](https://nagstamon.de/). It currently has way less features than nagstamon, but it also does not require [icingaweb2](https://icinga.com/docs/icinga-web-2/latest/doc/01-About/).

## Disclaimer 

Istamon still only has a minimal set of features. The only reasons I can think of to prefer it over
[nagstamon](https://nagstamon.de/) currently would be:

- You want a graphical overview of the monitoring state without running
  [icingaweb2](https://icinga.com/docs/icinga-web-2/latest/doc/01-About/) in
  addition to the icinga core service.
- You'd rather have Qt and Kirigami installed instead of python and GTK