Monitoring Plugins wins BlueHats Prize for maintainers

We are happy to announce that the Monitoring Plugins team has been awarded the fourth BlueHats prize. The Monitoring Plugins project is a long lived project for keeping services running correctly. It defines an interface for writing plugins and ships with more than fifty plugins. The plugins detect problematic statuses such as offline servers, high latency, overheating hardware or faulty storage.

The team won the fourth (and final) BlueHats prize of 2024 and will receive an award of € 10.000. The prize is an initiative of the French public administration with the aim of honoring maintainers of critical Free Software and shine a light on the importance of their work. The French Free Software unit (an OSPO) has partnered with NLnet to put four notable projects in the spotlight and award them the BlueHats 2024 prizes.

Holger Weiß, team lead of Monitoring Plugins happily accepted the BlueHats prize. The team is making plans to use the prize for improving the project. Holger writes:

The Monitoring Plugins team is happy to accept the BlueHats prize and honored by the recognition by the jury. As a small corner stone of many IT monitoring solutions we are seldom as visible as big name projects, but are happy to contribute our part to support the infrastructure all of us rely on in our society. Especially as infrastructure is often boring (as it should be), it is not very often visible and usually only receives attention when it fails.

In this spirit we are particulary thankful for people and institutions who care about the small and boring little cogs of the big machinery. This is not self-evident and we appreciate the effort and hope to continue to provide reliable software to the world.

Read the praise of the jury for Monitoring Plugins and a more extensive description of their work on the dedicated Monitoring Plugins BLueHats award page. To learn about the other BlueHat prize winners check out the main BlueHats prize 2024 page.