March 2026 performance summary for centreon/centreon-plugins. Delivered a robust enhancement to HTTP collection mode with nested JSON path support, added comprehensive tests, and fixed a critical edge-case to improve reliability of data collection from complex APIs. The work enhances monitoring accuracy and reduces the need for manual work when parsing complex JSON responses. Collaboration included co-authored fixes and alignment with CTOR-865.

February 2026 monthly summary for centreon/centreon highlighting security hardening across core workflows, focused bug fixes, and clear business value delivered. The work emphasizes reliability, security, and performance improvements with robust code practices.

Month: 2026-01. Focused on stabilizing the Cloud Notification workflow in the centreon/centreon repository. The primary deliverable was a critical bug fix addressing unset variable handling in the Cloud Notification Module. This fix ensures email commands are constructed correctly and temporary files are created without errors, reducing runtime failures and improving the reliability of cloud notifications across deployments. The work is linked to commit 864520cc77ce562249cf3f4ee20ef35248c36f15 with message "fix(centreon-cloud-notification): Fix use of unset variable (#9250)". Overall impact includes higher reliability of notification delivery, lower incident rates in cloud-based alerting, and a more robust code path for the cloud notification flow.

Monthly summary for 2025-11 focusing on backup configuration reliability and flexible MySQL path in centreon/centreon. Delivered a critical fix to backup configuration path detection and made the default MySQL config path empty to enable flexible, environment-aware configurations, improving reliability and deployability.

Month: 2025-10. This monthly summary highlights the key features delivered, major bugs fixed, and the overall impact across Centreon repositories. It emphasizes security hardening, access-control accuracy, user-experience improvements, and release governance, with concrete changes implemented in centreon/centreon and centreon/centreon-collect.

September 2025 performance highlights: Delivered high-impact features and fixes across centreon/centreon and centreon/centreon-collect, focusing on user clarity, security, data reliability, and packaging correctness. Key outcomes include improved README readability for users and contributors, XSS protections and HTML escaping in listings, more robust statistics collection, correct DSM packaging of SQL files, and safer poller export/config validation, reducing PHP warnings and improving error messaging.

July 2025 monthly summary for centreon/centreon focused on reducing operator friction in the CLI by addressing an unnecessary warning when the CLI is run without a username. The change updates CentreonUtils::setUserName to accept an empty string as the default username, enabling use without -u while preserving backward compatibility. The work is tracked by a single commit, ensuring minimal risk and clear traceability.

June 2025 monthly summary for Centreon platform focused on stability, reliability, and user-facing correctness. Key deliveries include hardening the Gorgone module with fail-fast behavior on unreadable configurations and a refactor of database transaction management, plus cleanup of deprecated module references and translation polish. All changes include unit tests to verify behavior, reinforcing production readiness. These contributions reduce runtime failures, prevent misconfig loads, improve deployment stability, and enhance UI quality for French-speaking users.

Monthly summary for 2025-05: Focused delivery across two repositories to improve reliability, reduce noise, and enhance user experience. Key features shipped, critical bugs fixed, and measurable business value demonstrated through clearer installation flows, improved error handling, and quieter DB schema checks. The work drives lower support load, faster issue diagnosis, and more predictable system behavior.

April 2025: Delivered stability and UX improvements in centreon-collect with a focus on packaging reliability and CLI clarity. Implemented critical packaging fixes for gorgone on AlmaLinux 9 and updated CentreonBIETL CLI help to reflect current capabilities. These changes reduce install/run-time issues and user confusion, enabling smoother deployments and faster incident resolution across enterprise environments.

Month: 2025-01 — Centreon-Collect (repo: centreon/centreon-collect). Focus this month was on reliability, data correctness, and authentication robustness. No new user-facing features were delivered; the work concentrated on critical bug fixes with clear business value that improve stability and security of BI metrics and authentication flows. Key bugs fixed: - MySQL 8 GROUP BY Compliance in BI Metrics and Availability Calculations: Fixed queries to include all necessary columns in GROUP BY to comply with MySQL 8's strict GROUP BY behavior, preventing errors where columns in SELECT aren't aggregated or grouped. Commits: 0fd367d06013a576d21ff5fade2904e66b90ea93 (fix(mbi): fix group by statement for mysql 8 (#1995)). - UTF-8 Decoding for Non-ASCII Credentials in gorgone HTTP Server Authentication: Ensured username and password are decoded as UTF-8 before comparison so authentication works with special/non-ASCII characters. Commits: b86ff0a32e456296d6504e3bc08e4f95d5293ce8 (fix(gorgone): Fix httpserver to correctly handle authentication with non-ascii characters (#1581)). Overall impact and accomplishments: - Improved BI metric reliability by aligning queries with MySQL 8 GROUP BY requirements, reducing runtime query errors and ensuring accurate metric calculations. - Hardened authentication handling by supporting non-ASCII credentials, reducing login failures for users with special characters and improving user experience. - The work enhances data correctness, stability, and security in production BI and authentication flows, aligning with the product’s reliability objectives for 2025. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - MySQL 8 GROUP BY semantics and SQL query refactoring for strict mode compatibility. - UTF-8 handling and robust authentication flow in a distributed server (gorgone HTTP server). - Evidence-based debugging, targeted commits, and clear change descriptions to facilitate future maintenance and audits.

Month: 2024-11 — Delivered two high-impact fixes across centreon/centreon and centreon/centreon-collect, focusing on reliability, accuracy, and observability. In centreon/centreon, fixed the sudoers syntax to correctly define NOPASSWD entries for the VMware service unit, enabling reliable start/stop/reload/restart via sudo and eliminating admin issues caused by missing or incorrect command paths. In centreon/centreon-collect, corrected the performance data label parsing to properly handle brackets, ensuring accurate data extraction and added tests for bracketed label formats. These changes reduce operational friction, improve data quality, and strengthen release readiness. Technologies demonstrated: Linux permissions hardening, robust parsing logic, test automation, packaging discipline, and Git-based collaboration.