Developing your own plugins

This page lists GitHub resources for learning about centreon-plugins and building connectors on top of the Perl framework - or independently of it.

The recommended path is the following:

• Basics & main guidelines - Understand the major concepts and features you need to know before developing any plugins.
• Advanced plugins development concepts - Find ressources for more advanced plugins features.
• How to develop a plugin to monitor a REST API - Tutorial to develop an API plugin.
• How to develop a plugin to monitor a device supporting SNMP - Tutorial to develop a SNMP plugin.
• How to have my contribution accepted faster - Tips to produce a code that complies with our standards.

Need some help? Unanswered questions? Smoggy concepts? Just reach out to us on our community platform The Watch. Feel free to submit an idea if you would like to see a specific topic covered within this section.

And if you are facing an issue that you know how to reproduce, you are welcome to open an issue with the debug information.