Gerhard Lausser
Team Lead Of Business Unit Monitoring at ConSol* Software GmbH
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolGerhard Lausser is a seasoned monitoring expert and team lead with over 21 years designing, implementing, and operating large-scale monitoring landscapes for enterprises such as BMW, the City of Munich, and Lidl/Kaufland. As head of ConSol’s Monitoring business unit he helped create the OMD Labs Edition used by enterprise customers, and he’s an active open-source maintainer and plugin author (including many widely used Nagios/Icinga/Prometheus checks and Monitoring::GLPlugin). His deep backend contributions to projects like monitoring-plugins and Shinken show pragmatic C and Python fixes that improve perfdata handling, robustness, and event processing. Author of a German Nagios practice book, he combines operator instincts with developer rigor and a famously blunt inbox policy—he really does ask for an IP and credentials first. Based in Munich, he brings rare institutional knowledge of monitoring at scale and a track record of turning complex operational requirements into reliable tooling.
21 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl-Inform. (FH), Informatik / Computer Science, Dipl-Inform. (FH), Informatik / Computer Science at Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg
English, French, Latin, oberpfälzisch
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Github Skills (19)
monitoring10
icinga10
monitor10
python10
nagios10
configuration-management10
c1110
perl10
system-monitoring10
c1710
sys10
error-handling9
shell8
sh8
script8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
shinken-solutions/shinken
Jan 2010 - Dec 2012
Flexible and scalable monitoring framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:497 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Gerhard contributed primarily to the core logic of the Shinken monitoring framework. Their work involved implementing features and fixing bugs within Python-based components, including handling service and host events, working on code related to downtime management, and enhancing macro resolving for improved functionality. The commits demonstrate expertise in areas such as configuration parsing, check result processing, and the integration of external commands. The contributions improved the overall robustness and features of the Shinken system.
scalablemonitoring-frameworkmetricsmonitoringflexible
monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins
Apr 2015 - Feb 2017
A suite of Monitoring Plugins (formerly known as nagios-plugins)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 8 PRs, 2 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Gerhard primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the monitoring plugins project, focusing on improving existing functionality. They implemented a new `sperfdata` function to handle threshold ranges, enhancing data reporting capabilities. The user also added entry counting features to `check_ldap` and corrected a typo in the help message. Additionally, they updated `check_http.c` to handle nul characters in web pages and fixed a bug in `check_snmp.c` related to perfdata.
monitoringmonitoring-pluginspluginautoconfc
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