Due to the great demand of companies getting year-end orders out, we've extended our discounted pricing specials on Nagios XI through the end of December.  Purchase Nagios XI licenses through December 31st and you'll not only get a great discount, but access to our flagship monitoring product for the New Year.  Learn more about XI and discounted pricing.

Ethan Galstad - founder of Nagios - will be a guest on Episode 174 the PaulDotCom Security Podcast tonight, Thursday, November 5th. Discussions will cover Nagios and its role in organizations' security operations.  Tune in to http://pauldotcom.com/ tonight, or catch it later by visiting the PaulDotCom archives.

We're pleased to announce the upcoming availability of Nagios XI™ - a powerful new IT infrastructure monitoring solution for today's demanding organizational requirements. The result of several projects we've undertaken to meet a variety of client requirements, XI is designed to adapt to meet challenging monitoring requirements and spur the next decade of Nagios innovation. Learn more about XI.

Customers who purchase an annual Nagios support contract now through December 15th will receive an additional 3 months of support added to their normal plan free of charge. We've also introduced a 3-incident support pack for just $995 USD that gives organizations more flexibility in choosing a support package that fits there needs. More information on our support packages can be found at www.nagios.com/services/support/.

We're pleased to find that Nagios is used as the standard alerting system at RedHat - one of the front-runners in commercial Open Source.  Nick Otto gave a presentation at the RedHat Summit in Chicago earlier this month, in which he covered Nagios and other enterprise-class OSS tools that are deployed in their infrastructure.

A great new community interview with Tobi Oetiker - author of MRTG, Smokeping, and the ubiquitous rrdtool. The ad-hoc interview was done at the Nordic Meet on Nagios in Stockholm, Sweden in June. Watch the interview.

In a new installment of the "Meet The Community" interview series we interview Joerg Linge, author of pnp4nagios ? a popular performance data processing and graphing addon for Nagios. Read the interview.

Thanks to everyone who participated in our product surveys over the past few weeks.  We are happy to announce that Yury Pakhomenko, Jay Hildreth, and Susan Wilson were all winners of Amazon gift certificates.  We appreciate the feedback we received from participants, and we'll use the information you provided us to deliver the best offerings to you in the upcoming months.