8.6. Using The Icingastats Utility
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## 8.6. Using The Icingastats Utility

### 8.6.1. 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.

### 8.6.2. Usage Information

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

### 8.6.3. 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 1.8
    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.

### 8.6.4. 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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