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Almond Monitor 26.1.2 released, September 2026.

Almond Monitor is updated to a new version, 26.1.2.

The main new feature is an alerting module that creates alerts as SMS or messages to Slack.
Optionally you can send alerts through third party alerting systems as PagerDuty, ilert and Opsgenie.

The feature is availabe both for Almond and HowRU (when used as a proxy).

Download Almond 26.1.2

Almond Monitor 26.1.0 released, August 2026.

Almond Monitor finally reached 1.0, a milestone for the project.

The product changes from 0.9.30 are minimal, with only some small buggfixes, but it was finally time to move above the 0.x versions.

We opted for a new versioning standard where the release year, release and version is included: 26.1.0.

Almond Monitor 26.1.0 is available with packages for RedHat and Ubuntu and as source code. API, OTEL, Kafka-integration and Prometheus exporter from Nagios plugins.

Almond Monitor 0.9.30 build 2 released, July 2026.

Almond Monitor 0.9.30 released in June with new collector module and labels.

In July build 2 was released with some updated templates and a new HowRU API for labels.

This might be the last release in the 0.9 series, as developement is moving to 1.0.

ARCHIEVED NEWS

Almond Monitor 0.9.28 released on April 21, 2026.

Almond Monitor 0.9.28 now released with enhanced IAM and roles support.

A modernised look and feel for the admin page now is also part of the release.

A short video showing login option introduced in the previous release can be found below.

WATCH: Almond Monitor 0.9.27 login options video

Almond Monitor 0.9.26 released on March 24, 2026.

The new version features a new push function in Almond with a responding receiver in the HowRU proxy functionality. In stead of relying on shared storage, Almond running in containers or as side cars could now push monitoring data and metrics directly to a HowRU endpoint.

A new feature in 0.9.26 is OTEL compability with endpoints and exporter available in HowRU.
The release also includes minor buggfixes from prior releases.

This release is considered stable and recommended to all users of Almond.

About Almond Monitor

Almond Monitor is a free GPL3 monitoring project with its base in Sweden.
The project is mainly built in C and Python and both coders and other contributers are welcome to join.

Almond Monitor is a modern monitoring solution that uses Nagios plugins to collect data and publishes the data collection is various ways.

Almond is an autonomous service that monitor a unit (server, hypervised server, docker container etc) where it is installed. It publish the data
collected in various ways, such as HTML, a prom-file, json, topics and through APIs.

Almond monitoring consists of two services, almond which uses Nagios plugins to collect monitoring data and howru that help publish the data.

The almond service has it´s own scheduler and various functions and can be used standalone. It can also produce all monitoring data to a Kafka topic.

The howru service produce HTML and prometheus metrics and can be used as a proxy for data from several almond services.

Both services has API:s that return data as json.

If you currently use Nagios or its derivates, it might be time to move to Almond. Almond is a little bit like nrpe on steroids, and you can indeed use it as a direct replacement for nrpe or NCPA.
However, Almond is not directly linked to Nagios and can be used to integrate with other monitoring platforms. At the same time, if wished.

Core Features

Almond Monitor is an autonomous service running on units collecting monitoring data from Nagios plugins.

It does not provide a server GUI as most other monitoring systems, rather it aims at allowing integrations through its API.

The unit running Almond Monitor will be able to show the results of the monitoring plugins through HTML, Json, metrics and in Kafka topics.
Through a proxy function it can also display the data from several units in a single source.

Use Cases

There is almost no limit of usecases where Almond should not be regarded as interesting.

Whether you want to evaluate a new and modern monitoring tool for your business or improving your well established monitoring solution,
Almond should be an interesting option to look at.

If you are experienced with Nagios or its deriviates Almond would be a natural addition to your toolbox.
It can function as an alternative to nrpe, but adding additional options as API requests and metrics.

You can also use Almond as a Prometheus exporter for applications where no good Prometheus exporters are found.
You can use Almond to extract the metrics you really use from an exporter (maybe pack it with the metrics provided by Nagios plugins),
and let OpenTelemetry collect this data only, instead of a bunch of exporter metrics you do not use.

Through the API:s you can create your own customed monitoring scripts or integrate with other monitoring solutions.

Sending all monitoring data to Kafka topics can help you with future prediction or make nice data plots.
It also opens up to have different consumers reacting to your monitoring data.

Your options will be plenty using Almond Monitor, and at the top of it - Almond is free of charge.

Live Demo

Using the container from Docker hub you can check the product out by yourself and the demo from our GitHub will show a micro-service
running together with integrations with Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios Core, Kafka (Redpanda) and Zabbix.

We are also willing to demonstrate the capabilities of the product for you in a live demo as well as we are willing to help you getting
started working with the product.

Download

You can clone the entire Almond Monitor repo from GitHub or just grab the packages or source code from there to install Almond.

If you need any assistance getting started, feel free to contact us.

Contact

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