Automating the monitoring process for a huge amount of servers, virtual machines, applications, services, private and public clouds is a main driver for users when they decide to use Icinga. In...
Monitoring Automation with Icinga Director
Automating the monitoring process for a huge amount of servers, virtual machines, applications, services, private and public clouds is a main driver for users when they decide to use Icinga. In...
Icinga Notifications: Custom Channel Plugins
As many of you have already seen in our previous blog posts and our early beta release, we're working on a new, independent notification module. Right now, we only offer three ready-made channels for sending notifications. Today, I want to show you how you can create...
Announcing Icinga for Kubernetes v0.2.0
We are excited to announce the release of Icinga for Kubernetes v0.2.0! This update brings a host of new features and improvements that enhance our monitoring solution for Kubernetes. It makes it easier than ever to analyze problems and understand complex Kubernetes...
Icinga Certification is out!
The Icinga certification is a topic some of you have been waiting for impatiently. Some got a glimpse at it already at the Icinga Summit. Some of you might have never heard of it before. This is your opportunity to prove your skills and take the next step in your...
What a Cloud Monitoring Architecture looks like
In today's fast-paced, digitally-driven business world, cloud computing has become the foundation of scalable and flexible IT infrastructure. As organizations transition to the cloud to gain agility, scalability, and cost savings, it becomes crucial to monitor cloud...
Icinga’s Success Stories: Showcasing Customer Achievements
It’s been three years since we began sharing the remarkable journeys of our customers through success stories, and today, we’d like to reflect on how this initiative has evolved and continues to grow. These stories, which have become a cornerstone of our communication...
Icinga Notifications: Incidents, Escalations, and Event Rules
Following the Icinga Notifications beta announcement, we already had a more general post on how to get started and one going into the details of schedules. This week's blog post is a follow up in this series and will describe incidents, escalations, and event rules in...
Multi Element Selection in Icinga DB Web
From time to time we want to bring not so widely known features of Icinga into spotlight. In this effort it’s a not so obvious feature, that was available in the monitoring module of Icinga Web 2 at some point already. It has also been available in Icinga DB Web since...
Releasing Icinga for Windows v1.13.0-Beta1
Today we are very happy to announce the first beta release of Icinga for Windows with with version 1.13.0.0! This new release provides a huge number of improvements and changes to the Framework as well as the default Windows Plugins, which we will talk about later on....
Icinga Director: Cloning dictionary row entries for objects from import sources
Over use of dictionaries in monitoring leads to complex and ugly configurations. This in turn makes monitoring complicated. Hence, it is advisable to use it, only if it is needed or in special cases. Even in these cases it is worthwhile to keep it simple. On that...
Icinga Package Repository Key Rotation, 2024
Icinga uses it's own repositories to distribute installation packages for the Icinga software. Today, we're announcing the rotation of the GPG key used to sign our repositories and packages. Currently, our repository is signed with a 1024 bit DSA key. Key rotation is...
Visualise your Icinga Cluster with Clustergraph
This is a guest blogpost from Dave Kempe from Sol1 At Sol1, we provide services around scaling and automating Icinga rollouts for customers. In large environments, we make heavy use of the excellent distributed monitoring features of Icinga to build redundant clusters...
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