Icinga 2 is a network monitoring system and parallel development branch to Icinga 1. Written from scratch, it builds on the success of Icinga 1 and deals with shortcomings inherited from Nagios as a fork. Icinga 2 is: - Easy to install with soft link activation of functions and packages - Multithreaded and very fast: Capable of thousands of checks per second - Intuitive to configure, using new object-based, template-driven format - Easy to extend with native support for Livestatus and Graphite - Cluster-enabled for distributed monitoring out of the box WWW: http://www.icinga.org/icinga2/