If you run a managed service provider, your RMM software is the backbone of daily operations. Remote management, patch cycles, ticketing workflows - it handles the essentials. But if you're...
Open-Source MSP Monitoring Software: Why IT Service Providers Add Icinga to Their RMM Stack
If you run a managed service provider, your RMM software is the backbone of daily operations. Remote management, patch cycles, ticketing workflows - it handles the essentials. But if you're...
Four Modern PHP Features That Show How Far the Language Has Come
PHP has evolved over the years and has become a lot reliable, faster and refined. And with the release of PHP 8, which contained many features (named arguments, union types, attributes, constructor property promotion, match expressions, the null safe operator (?->)...
Icinga Web v2.13 and IPL: PHP 8.5 Support & Module Updates Release
This is not just a version bump. Raising the PHP floor allowed us to modernize the IPL codebase in ways that were not possible before: strict type declarations throughout, and a cleaner, more predictable API surface. We are also introducing two new packages:...
Mirroring Icinga Packages in Air-Gapped and Restricted Environments
When hosting in a secure or corporate environment, Internet access is often restricted or blocked completely. While this makes sense from a security point of view, this introduces some challenges. For one, getting software packages. There are usually two approaches to...
How to Use Git Bisect to Pinpoint Bugs Precisely
A feature that used to work suddenly broke. The problem? There were 300 commits since the last time I knew it worked. Checking each commit manually would take forever. Fortunately, Git has a tool designed exactly for this situation: git bisect. What is Git Bisect? The...
Syncing LDAP Users & Groups with the Icinga Notifications Web API
If you're running Icinga in a mid-to-large organization, chances are your users and teams are already defined in LDAP or Active Directory. Manually re-creating contacts and contact groups in Icinga Notifications Web is tedious and error-prone, but thankfully, it...
How to undo Git reset hard?
You just finished a long interactive rebase. You hit enter. Your commit history looks… wrong. There is a bunch of things that could go wrong: messed up an interactive rebase accidentally ran git reset --hard merged the wrong branch rebased onto the wrong base You...
Icinga Partnering in Action: The Shadow-Soft Success Story
Shadow-Soft has been our key partner in North America for more than a decade. During this time, they have built a strong enterprise monitoring practice around Icinga and successfully delivered complex projects across large customer environments. In our newly published...
Icinga Director v1.11.6 Release
We are happy to announce the release of Icinga Director version 1.11.6. This release addresses several important bug fixes and introduces improvements that enhance the overall stability of Icinga Director. Database Schema Upgrade Columns storing large strings for...
Understanding Namespaces in Icinga 2 DSL
Last time, we explored the concept of variable scopes in Icinga 2, which help you manage and organize your DSL configurations effectively. As promised, today we'll dive into another, how shall I say, advanced topic: Namespaces in Icinga 2. What are Namespaces?...
How to Migrate an Icinga 2 Master in a High Availability Setup
Moving an Icinga 2 master to a new machine requires careful preparation, especially in a master-to-master high availability setup. In production environments, such migrations are often part of broader infrastructure changes, platform standardization, or long-term...
Releasing Icinga for Windows v1.14.0 – We have been cooking!
As Bernd mentioned at last year's OSMC, the Icinga for Windows team was heavy working on v1.14.0 which was going to be released in December. Well, we are off a couple of days, but we believe the wait was worth it! Security Update Let's first get the elephant...
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