February 2026 monthly summary for centreon/centreon-collect. Focused on automation, security, and deployment reliability. Delivered a cross-platform CMA Installer with automated Linux/Windows deployment scripts, host template support, and an interactive token prompt. Implemented a fingerprint-based security option and enhanced Windows installation logging to improve security, visibility, and reliability. Updated installer tests and defaults to align with changes, including an encryption option for agent installation arguments.

January 2026 (2026-01) delivered three core improvements for centreon/centreon-collect: enhanced monitoring configuration with a flexible threshold framework, Windows installer enhancements, and a fix to suppress alert notifications for UNKNOWN services during host downtime. The updates consolidate anomaly detection, host, and service configurations and introduce a new threshold class to support full native-check syntax, backed by targeted tests. Windows installer improvements include signing support and better handling of multiple agent instances, enabling more secure and scalable deployments. A fix was implemented to suppress UNKNOWN service alerts when the host is DOWN, reducing alert noise and improving incident signal quality, with corresponding tests to ensure stability. These efforts collectively improve reliability, deployment efficiency, and customer value, while showcasing strong capabilities in configuration management, testing, and Windows packaging.

December 2025 monthly summary for centreon/centreon-collect. Security hardening and reliability improvements were delivered, including token-based authentication for non-TLS gRPC agent connections (JWT interceptors) and a configuration-file driven custom checks feature, plus lifecycle reliability fixes and crash prevention. Key changes were implemented via targeted commits: 1611c93603e8efe6365299d01a02f52fa5d669a6 (feat(grpc): add token interceptors for no TLS), 69b7788919d12ff0361e3c65b41405d27fd4fa29 (feat(agent): implement custom check file), 859c450e5aa1ee6cb4db30fd362af24685b7acf3 (Fix(engine/broker): delete relations before deleting service/host), 03ed3cdf8e7ffb43f6705e0dbaf0d280964fb288 (fix(engine): crash when macro address is not set in contact). Refs: MON-186322, MON-190240, MON-191814, MON-192591.

November 2025 performance summary: Delivered core CMA improvements across Centreon Collect, improved Windows scalability, and aligned developer docs with BBDO v3. Key fixes include preventing CMA output truncation and ensuring command_line visibility for CMA services, resulting in more reliable checks and clearer operator visibility. These changes reduce false negatives, enable scalable monitoring with multiple pollers, and improve developer onboarding and maintenance.

Month: 2025-10 | Centreon/centreon-collect: Key CMA improvements delivered to improve reliability and accuracy of monitoring. Implemented retry logic for CMA checks with configurable retry intervals and max attempts, and introduced CMA host/service freshness checks to prevent false stale states. These changes reduce transient alert noise, improve incident response, and tighten the correctness of CMA monitoring across hosts and services.

September 2025: Delivered security and deployment enhancements for centreon-collect. Key features delivered include flexible gRPC encryption configuration and packaging modernization of the CMA installer from NSIS to Inno Setup, with UI refinements. No major bugs fixed this month; however, installer warnings and certificate/key handling were improved to prevent deployment issues. Overall impact: stronger security posture, smoother deployments, and reduced maintenance for deployment tooling. Technologies/skills demonstrated: gRPC configuration parsing and schema evolution, Inno Setup packaging, installer UI/UX refinements, and release engineering.

Monthly summary for 2025-08 focusing on security hardening and configuration reliability in centreon-collect. Delivered two key feature areas: (1) token-based authentication enhancements and (2) TLS/certificate handling improvements. Implementations emphasize backward compatibility and safer defaults to reduce deployment risks and align with encryption requirements across agents.

Concise monthly summary for July 2025 (repository: centreon/centreon-collect). Focused on feature delivery, reliability improvements, and maintainability enhancements that drive monitoring coverage and platform security. Major work centered on cross-platform enhancements and test quality to support scalable monitoring deployments.

June 2025 – Centreon Collect (centreon/centreon-collect): Security hardening of agent communications, reliability improvements, and enhanced observability. Delivered token-based authentication for poller-initiated agent connections, stronger gRPC server authentication, installer script enhancements for token-based flows, improved reverse-connection configuration handling, and OpenTelemetry TLS support when no tokens are configured. Added Windows Task Scheduler monitoring and associated tests. These changes strengthen security, reduce operational risk, and improve traceability across environments.

May 2025 monthly summary for centreon/centreon-collect focusing on feature delivery, technical upgrades, and impact. 1) Key features delivered - Performance Data Helper (PDH) Counter Monitoring for Windows: introduced check_counter to collect and monitor PDH counters on Windows with configurable counter names, filters, output formats, and warning/critical thresholds; supports single and multi-instance; integrated into build and main entry points; unit tests added. Commit: 42bfdfff57a6c02fb38cfd7c816229b8793ac6fe (Mon 147308 cma native checks windows counter (#2327)). - Flexible gRPC Encryption Configuration: refactored encryption config to accept string values ('full','insecure','no') instead of boolean; updates to configuration schema, parsing logic, and tests. Commit: bb36d1e5fca77a437653aeff20319faabbdd7fb0 (refactor(grpc): update encryption configuration to accept string values (#2393)). 2) Major bugs fixed - No explicit major bugs documented in this dataset. The month focused on feature delivery and refactoring. 3) Overall impact and accomplishments - Enhanced observability with Windows PDH counters, enabling more precise monitoring and alerting. - Increased security configuration flexibility and clarity by using string-based gRPC encryption modes, improving policy compliance and reduce misconfiguration risk. - Added unit tests and integration hooks, improving stability and maintainability. 4) Technologies/skills demonstrated - Windows Performance Data Helper (PDH) monitoring, multi-instance support, and test coverage. - gRPC configuration refactoring, schema parsing, and test updates. - Configuration management, code refactoring, and end-to-end testing.

Concise monthly summary for 2025-04 focusing on the Centreon project centreon/centreon-collect. Delivered secure token-based authentication for CMA connections, enabling JWT-based agent-initiated connections with server-side validation. Updated deployment and configuration artifacts to support token handling and future security hardening. Demonstrated end-to-end integration across Docker, PowerShell, and core agent components. Provides a stronger security posture for agent communications and aligns with modern authentication standards.

March 2025 performance: Strengthened security, reliability, and configuration hygiene for centreon-collect. Delivered three core items: (1) Centreon Agent: Non-TLS Connection Security Warnings and Timeout to enforce production TLS best practices and test script updates; (2) Centreon Agent: Improved error handling for invalid check commands and arguments with a new check_dummy and e_status refactor; (3) Centreon Engine/Config Cleanup: Removed deprecated auto-rescheduling options with tests verifying warning logs. These changes reduce production risk, improve diagnostics, and enhance test coverage. Technologies/skills demonstrated include TLS enforcement, robust error handling, test-driven development, and deprecation warning strategies.

January 2025 (2025-01) – Centreon Collect focused on expanding engine configuration to support nested hostgroups and servicegroups, improving the accuracy of the effective configuration and laying groundwork for scalable deployments. The changes include enhancements to the configuration expansion logic and accompanying tests to validate behavior.

November 2024 – centreon/centreon-collect: Delivered major feature work around inheritance, expanded gRPC API surface, and confirmed stability improvements. Key initiatives include adding service group inheritance across config, parser, engine, and tests; enabling contact group retrieval via gRPC with inheritance validation across startup and reloads; introducing GetTag and GetSeverity endpoints with consistent identifier handling; adding Command, Connector, and Escalation endpoints with template inheritance; and substantial code quality improvements plus a segmentation fault fix to stabilize host relationships. These changes reduce manual configuration effort, enable more reliable automation, and improve robustness of the collection engine.

Concise monthly summary for 2024-10 focusing on Centreon Centreon-collect: Key features delivered, major bugs fixed, impact, and tech skills demonstrated. Emphasis on business value and technical achievements for performance reviews.