1 # <a id="addons-plugins"></a> Icinga 2 Addons and Plugins
3 ## <a id="addons"></a> Addons
5 ### <a id="addons-graphing-reporting"></a> Graphing Addons
7 #### <a id="addons-graphing-pnp"></a> PNP
9 PNP (http://www.pnp4nagios.org) must be configured using the "bulk mode with npcd and npcdmod"
10 hence Icinga 2's [PerfdataWriter](#performance-data) acts as npcdmod. NPCD will collect
11 the rotated performance data files.
13 #### <a id="addons-graphing-pnp"></a> inGraph
15 inGraph (https://www.netways.org/projects/ingraph/wiki) requires the ingraph-collector addon
16 to be configured to point at the perfdata files. Icinga 2's [PerfdataWriter](#performance-data) will
17 write to the performance data spool directory.
19 #### <a id="addons-graphing-pnp"></a> Graphite
21 There are Graphite addons available for collecting the performance data files as well. But
22 natively you can use the [GraphiteWriter](#graphite-carbon-cache-writer) feature.
24 #### <a id="addons-reporting"></a> Icinga Reporting
26 By enabling the DB IDO feature you can use the Icinga Reporting package.
29 ### <a id="addons-visualization"></a> Visualization
31 #### <a id="addons-visualization-nagvis"></a> NagVis
33 By using either Livestatus or DB IDO as a backend you can create your own network maps
34 based on your monitoring configuration and status data using NagVis (http://www.nagvis.org).
36 ### <a id="addons-web-interfaces"></a> Web Interfaces
38 As well as the Icinga supported web interfaces (Classic UI 1.x, Web 1.x, Web 2) there are a
39 number of community provided web interfaces too:
41 * Thruk (http://www.thruk.org) based on the [Livestatus](#livestatus) feature
44 ## <a id="plugins"></a> Plugins
46 You can find plugins (additional to the ones at [Monitoring Plugins](https://www.monitoring-plugins.org)) over at
47 [Monitoring Exchange](#https://www.monitoringexchange.org)
49 More details on the plugins can also be found on the Icinga Wiki at https://wiki.icinga.org
51 ## <a id="plugin-api"></a> Plugin API
53 Currently Icinga 2 supports the native plugin API specification from the `Monitoring Plugins`
56 The `Monitoring Plugin API` is defined in the [Monitoring Plugins Development Guidelines](https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/doc/guidelines.html).