
Sébastien Duret contributed to the Centreon and centreon-plugins repositories by engineering robust monitoring, reporting, and access control features while resolving complex bugs across backend and plugin layers. He improved reliability and data integrity by refining SQL queries, optimizing database monitoring, and aligning UI constraints with schema requirements. Using PHP, Perl, and SQL, Sébastien enhanced LDAP integration, automated token cleanup, and hardened configuration management. His work included targeted fixes for SNMP and API integrations, as well as UI/UX improvements for dashboards and widgets. The depth of his contributions is reflected in careful code reviews, cross-team collaboration, and a focus on maintainability.
February 2026 monthly summary for the Centreon project (repository: centreon/centreon). The focus was on improving observability and reliability in the MIB upload workflow through a targeted log visibility fix. Delivered a concise, low-risk patch that clarifies SNMP trap logs during MIB uploads, enabling faster diagnosis and support.
February 2026 monthly summary for the Centreon project (repository: centreon/centreon). The focus was on improving observability and reliability in the MIB upload workflow through a targeted log visibility fix. Delivered a concise, low-risk patch that clarifies SNMP trap logs during MIB uploads, enabling faster diagnosis and support.
January 2026 focused on improving monitoring usability and precision by delivering a targeted Downtime Service Filtering feature for centreon/centreon. This enhancement narrows downtime visibility to a specified service, enabling faster service-specific troubleshooting and reducing noise for better operational focus. Demonstrated strong collaboration and code quality through a co-authored commit and careful integration into the existing downtime workflow. Technologies/skills demonstrated include UI and backend filtering, version-control discipline, and peer collaboration.
January 2026 focused on improving monitoring usability and precision by delivering a targeted Downtime Service Filtering feature for centreon/centreon. This enhancement narrows downtime visibility to a specified service, enabling faster service-specific troubleshooting and reducing noise for better operational focus. Demonstrated strong collaboration and code quality through a co-authored commit and careful integration into the existing downtime workflow. Technologies/skills demonstrated include UI and backend filtering, version-control discipline, and peer collaboration.
Dec 2025 monthly summary for centreon/centreon focused on reliability and data accuracy of dashboards. No new features shipped this month; a critical bug fix was implemented in the Open Tickets widget to correct subquery filtering for host categories, ensuring data retrieval aligns with user preferences. This patch improves widget reliability and user trust in custom views.
Dec 2025 monthly summary for centreon/centreon focused on reliability and data accuracy of dashboards. No new features shipped this month; a critical bug fix was implemented in the Open Tickets widget to correct subquery filtering for host categories, ensuring data retrieval aligns with user preferences. This patch improves widget reliability and user trust in custom views.
November 2025 monthly summary for centreon/centreon focusing on LDAP authentication reliability. Delivered a bug fix to ensure LDAP-derived user DNs are kept in sync with LDAP changes, reducing login failures and aligning Centreon DN handling with updated LDAP behavior.
November 2025 monthly summary for centreon/centreon focusing on LDAP authentication reliability. Delivered a bug fix to ensure LDAP-derived user DNs are kept in sync with LDAP changes, reducing login failures and aligning Centreon DN handling with updated LDAP behavior.
October 2025 – Centreon Plugins (centreon/centreon-plugins): Delivered targeted bug fixes that improve accuracy and reliability of monitoring across MSSQL and Dell iDRAC hardware, resulting in more reliable metrics, better dashboards, and fewer false alerts. Key outcomes: - MSSQL Deadlocks/Lock Waits counters discovery bug fixed by switching query matching from exact '=' to LIKE to support partial name matching, ensuring accurate discovery and reporting of counters such as 'Number of Deadlocks/sec' and 'Lock Waits/sec' (commit 73c195e7a580bfbd40387ef6d9328d8cff6791f3). - Dell iDRAC SNMP ready pdisk state mapping bug fixed: corrected status mapping for pdisk.state: ready from WARNING to OK, providing accurate disk health reporting (commit c455c5e5a8c4cd5fd8bb27fdfe7ea40dd3a66591). Impact: - Improves monitoring reliability and accuracy, reducing false alerts and increasing trust in dashboards for MSSQL metrics and hardware health. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - SQL query pattern adjustments (LIKE vs =) to enhance metric discovery - SNMP status mapping for hardware health reporting - Collaborative development evidenced by co-authored commits CTOR-1941 and CTOR-1949
October 2025 – Centreon Plugins (centreon/centreon-plugins): Delivered targeted bug fixes that improve accuracy and reliability of monitoring across MSSQL and Dell iDRAC hardware, resulting in more reliable metrics, better dashboards, and fewer false alerts. Key outcomes: - MSSQL Deadlocks/Lock Waits counters discovery bug fixed by switching query matching from exact '=' to LIKE to support partial name matching, ensuring accurate discovery and reporting of counters such as 'Number of Deadlocks/sec' and 'Lock Waits/sec' (commit 73c195e7a580bfbd40387ef6d9328d8cff6791f3). - Dell iDRAC SNMP ready pdisk state mapping bug fixed: corrected status mapping for pdisk.state: ready from WARNING to OK, providing accurate disk health reporting (commit c455c5e5a8c4cd5fd8bb27fdfe7ea40dd3a66591). Impact: - Improves monitoring reliability and accuracy, reducing false alerts and increasing trust in dashboards for MSSQL metrics and hardware health. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - SQL query pattern adjustments (LIKE vs =) to enhance metric discovery - SNMP status mapping for hardware health reporting - Collaborative development evidenced by co-authored commits CTOR-1941 and CTOR-1949
August 2025 monthly summary: Delivered targeted feature improvements and critical bug fixes across centreon/centreon and centreon/centreon-plugins, enhancing reporting accuracy, monitoring reliability, and developer experience. Key outcomes include precise widget usage reporting, streamlined LDAP filter validation, and more robust Kubernetes DaemonSet monitoring with updated documentation. These changes deliver measurable business value through improved data integrity, fewer false positives, and faster maintenance.
August 2025 monthly summary: Delivered targeted feature improvements and critical bug fixes across centreon/centreon and centreon/centreon-plugins, enhancing reporting accuracy, monitoring reliability, and developer experience. Key outcomes include precise widget usage reporting, streamlined LDAP filter validation, and more robust Kubernetes DaemonSet monitoring with updated documentation. These changes deliver measurable business value through improved data integrity, fewer false positives, and faster maintenance.
July 2025 monthly summary for centreon/centreon-plugins focusing on a targeted bug fix in the HP iLO REST API plugin monitoring. Excluded Enclosure chassis types to prevent unnecessary processing and improve monitoring data accuracy (CTOR-1798). Commit: 420edcf3c4a0e9e82189d15f64dbb5b51daf3d5e. This work reinforces reliability and efficiency in enterprise monitoring across affected environments.
July 2025 monthly summary for centreon/centreon-plugins focusing on a targeted bug fix in the HP iLO REST API plugin monitoring. Excluded Enclosure chassis types to prevent unnecessary processing and improve monitoring data accuracy (CTOR-1798). Commit: 420edcf3c4a0e9e82189d15f64dbb5b51daf3d5e. This work reinforces reliability and efficiency in enterprise monitoring across affected environments.
June 2025 performance summary for centreon/centreon. Delivered three primary outcomes: Automated Token Cleanup Cron Job, Remote Configuration Class Name Formatting Fix, and UI/UX improvements to Global Health and Top 10 widgets. Key commits illustrating these changes: c5e9f7f42f1bb179941bbdc0c52ae3ce15476b5a updated 10-centreon-ha.yaml to integrate token removal (#6219); 6ee452a0cce62c1b0dc33ffa7b09ba94a236dafa fixed class name computation in remote config generation (#7543); 797a9a7d8e00eb8f609cffa17c17151020c552ac enhanced visibility of values in Global Health and Top 10 widgets (#6256). Overall impact: security posture improved via automated token cleanup, reliability and correctness of remote configuration, and clearer, more actionable monitoring data. Skills demonstrated: HA cron integration, YAML/infra configuration, string formatting correctness, UI/UX tuning, and data aggregation/query enhancement.
June 2025 performance summary for centreon/centreon. Delivered three primary outcomes: Automated Token Cleanup Cron Job, Remote Configuration Class Name Formatting Fix, and UI/UX improvements to Global Health and Top 10 widgets. Key commits illustrating these changes: c5e9f7f42f1bb179941bbdc0c52ae3ce15476b5a updated 10-centreon-ha.yaml to integrate token removal (#6219); 6ee452a0cce62c1b0dc33ffa7b09ba94a236dafa fixed class name computation in remote config generation (#7543); 797a9a7d8e00eb8f609cffa17c17151020c552ac enhanced visibility of values in Global Health and Top 10 widgets (#6256). Overall impact: security posture improved via automated token cleanup, reliability and correctness of remote configuration, and clearer, more actionable monitoring data. Skills demonstrated: HA cron integration, YAML/infra configuration, string formatting correctness, UI/UX tuning, and data aggregation/query enhancement.
May 2025 focused on stability, security, and data integrity across two Centreon repositories. No new features were released; the month delivered critical bug fixes and hardening that improve monitoring reliability, data accuracy, and administrative security across the Centreon stack.
May 2025 focused on stability, security, and data integrity across two Centreon repositories. No new features were released; the month delivered critical bug fixes and hardening that improve monitoring reliability, data accuracy, and administrative security across the Centreon stack.
April 2025 — Centreon/centreon: Focused on data integrity and reliability in the Time Periods module. No new features were released this month; the primary deliverable was a targeted bug fix to align the Time Period Configuration input length with the database column, preventing truncation and preserving user input. The change reduces risk of data loss and support tickets, and improves user trust in configuration workflows.
April 2025 — Centreon/centreon: Focused on data integrity and reliability in the Time Periods module. No new features were released this month; the primary deliverable was a targeted bug fix to align the Time Period Configuration input length with the database column, preventing truncation and preserving user input. The change reduces risk of data loss and support tickets, and improves user trust in configuration workflows.
March 2025 focused on security and data integrity improvements for the Centreon grid-map widget. Delivered a bug fix that parameterizes queries and strengthens ACL handling for service descriptions, addressing potential SQL concatenation risks and ensuring data visibility aligns with user permissions and selected service filters. Commit 0ec5cad358ae625827c73b8bc10544873a3fc753 closes the issue (#4883).
March 2025 focused on security and data integrity improvements for the Centreon grid-map widget. Delivered a bug fix that parameterizes queries and strengthens ACL handling for service descriptions, addressing potential SQL concatenation risks and ensuring data visibility aligns with user permissions and selected service filters. Commit 0ec5cad358ae625827c73b8bc10544873a3fc753 closes the issue (#4883).
February 2025 performance summary for centreon/centreon: Delivered targeted reliability and security improvements that add business value and strengthen user trust. Key changes include refining uptime calculations to exclude days with zero scheduled duration and correcting ACL query handling to properly retrieve and pass service group and access group IDs, resulting in more accurate uptime metrics and access checks. These improvements reduce misreporting, enhance decision-making, and demonstrate solid backend engineering, data handling, and security skills.
February 2025 performance summary for centreon/centreon: Delivered targeted reliability and security improvements that add business value and strengthen user trust. Key changes include refining uptime calculations to exclude days with zero scheduled duration and correcting ACL query handling to properly retrieve and pass service group and access group IDs, resulting in more accurate uptime metrics and access checks. These improvements reduce misreporting, enhance decision-making, and demonstrate solid backend engineering, data handling, and security skills.
November 2024 (centreon/centreon-collect) delivered a targeted bug fix that substantially improves data integrity and reliability. The key achievement was correcting the SQL deletion path for host group memberships by using the correct table hosts_hostgroups, preventing incorrect deletions and potential data inconsistencies across environments. This work reinforces monitoring automation reliability and reduces downstream correction work for operators.
November 2024 (centreon/centreon-collect) delivered a targeted bug fix that substantially improves data integrity and reliability. The key achievement was correcting the SQL deletion path for host group memberships by using the correct table hosts_hostgroups, preventing incorrect deletions and potential data inconsistencies across environments. This work reinforces monitoring automation reliability and reduces downstream correction work for operators.
In October 2024, the centreon-plugins repository focused on packaging hygiene and monitoring reliability to reduce deployment risk and improve customer-facing metrics. Key work included removing the speedtest-cli dependency from the Speedtest plugin in favor of the official speedtest binary, which simplifies packaging and prevents version conflicts; and fixing the PostgreSQL monitoring plugins exclude option so it correctly excludes specified databases instead of omitting them, improving accuracy for hitratio and backends modes. These changes reduce build complexity and runtime issues, while increasing monitoring reliability for critical environments. Commits: 92800376601e167cb3436c7d4e4d1ce202826421; 39d6d4bbf96c9b99c229896e9b98e8c19b2704ed.
In October 2024, the centreon-plugins repository focused on packaging hygiene and monitoring reliability to reduce deployment risk and improve customer-facing metrics. Key work included removing the speedtest-cli dependency from the Speedtest plugin in favor of the official speedtest binary, which simplifies packaging and prevents version conflicts; and fixing the PostgreSQL monitoring plugins exclude option so it correctly excludes specified databases instead of omitting them, improving accuracy for hitratio and backends modes. These changes reduce build complexity and runtime issues, while increasing monitoring reliability for critical environments. Commits: 92800376601e167cb3436c7d4e4d1ce202826421; 39d6d4bbf96c9b99c229896e9b98e8c19b2704ed.

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