Icinga and Checkmk are the two open-source monitoring tools that turn up most often on the same shortlist. Both monitor IT infrastructure, and on a feature list they look close to interchangeable....
Icinga vs Checkmk: Setup, Cost, Flexibility and Support
Icinga and Checkmk are the two open-source monitoring tools that turn up most often on the same shortlist. Both monitor IT infrastructure, and on a feature list they look close to interchangeable....
Using writable bind mounts with Icinga 2 in rootless Podman
Running Icinga 2 in a rootless Podman container is pretty straightforward, it works just the same as on Docker, so all the examples on our Docker Hub page work as expected. For example this one to generate certificates and initialize the master configuration: podman...
Icinga Web SSO walkthrough
The ability to log into all corporate applications with one username and password is pretty convenient, even compared to a password manager. As a benefit, the IT department can centrally enforce one desired two-factor auth mechanism. Now we, Icinga, also provide a...
Consulting on Site: An Icinga Engagement near Basel
Not all monitoring work happens remotely. Some of it means packing a bag, taking the train across three countries, and sitting down with the customer's team. This is a report from a week-long Icinga consulting engagement for a customer near Basel, covering the journey...
Opsgenie End of Life: Where Open-Source Alerting Stands in 2026
Atlassian stops supporting Opsgenie on April 5, 2027. New sales ended on June 4, 2025, and data left in the platform after the support date gets deleted. If Icinga pushes alerts into Opsgenie today, that route has an expiry date, and so does every on-call rotation and...
Releasing Icinga 2 v2.16.5 and v2.15.6
Today, we are announcing the availability of Icinga 2 v2.16.5 and v2.15.6. These releases contains some security enhancements that fix a couple of minor vulnerabilities. The release for v2.16.5 also contains a bugfix for a regression in the IcingaDB feature that was...
Icinga Director: Targeted Health Checks and Sync Rule/Import Source Deletes from CLI
Icinga Director's CLI commands have supported import sources and sync rules for a long time, which includes listing, checking and running them. Before Icinga Director v1.11.6 two things you couldn't do from the CLI, though, were narrowing a health check down to a...
Integrating Icinga and Prometheus
Guest post by Markus Opolka, Senior Consultant at NETWAYS. Originally published on the NETWAYS blog as "Icinga und Prometheus integrieren" and "Alertmanager-Icinga-Bridge - Ein Signalilo Fork", combined and adapted for the Icinga blog with permission. ____ Icinga and...
Specifics in Packaging Icinga Go Applications
Today's post provides insights into packaging Icinga Go applications and explains why there are seven Icinga DB version 1.5.1 packages. # apt-cache show icingadb | grep 'Version: 1.5.1' Version: 1.5.1-7+debian13 Version: 1.5.1-6+debian13 Version: 1.5.1-5+debian13...
Password Policies in Icinga Web
Icinga Web 2 now ships a PasswordPolicyHook that gives administrators and module developers full control over what constitutes a valid password. Instead of hard-coding a single rule set for every deployment, the hook makes password validation an extension point: any...
Building a Shared Icon and Font Library for Icinga Web
If you've copied the same icon font or the same LESS helper into two or three Icinga Web modules, you've hit the problem libraries exist to solve. This guide builds one from scratch: a small, self-contained icon and font pack that any number of modules can share, with...
Icinga TOTP Web 1.0.0 Release
We are releasing Icinga TOTP Web v1.0.0, which adds Time-based One-Time Password (TOTP) two-factor authentication to Icinga Web. What Is Icinga TOTP Web? Icinga Web's authentication system supports multiple backends, but until now it lacked a built-in second factor....
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