Icinga Package Repository Key Rotation, 2024

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...

Building a strong relationship with Red Hat

Building a strong relationship with Red Hat

Working together with other companies is a crucial part of our everyday business. Be it with our customers, business partners or technical partners - a close relationship is key for every future collaboration. Vendors of operating systems play an important role in...

Releasing Icinga DB v1.0-RC2 – Key Updates & Improvements

Releasing Icinga DB v1.0-RC2 – Key Updates & Improvements

We are super excited to release the second Release Candidate of Icinga DB! This release comes after many hours, days and months of experimenting, re-thinking and rebuilding our own code and marks a huge step towards a new data backend for Icinga. Why Icinga DB Since...

How to monitor your first Host with Icinga Director

How to monitor your first Host with Icinga Director

Creating a new Host within the Icinga 2 configuration files is fairly easy. Basically you only have add an object of the type "Host" to a config file and reload Icinga 2. Doing the same with Icinga Director is even easier, you don't even have to bother with terminal...

Monitoring the Monitor: How to keep a watch on Icinga 2

Monitoring the Monitor: How to keep a watch on Icinga 2

The question is (probably) older than monitoring itself: Who monitors the monitor? While Icinga comes with countless options to monitor a wide range of devices and applications, at some point you will ask yourself how you can observe if Icinga itself is having errors....

How to fetch data from Icinga Web

How to fetch data from Icinga Web

There are multiple ways to interact programatically with Icinga. Last week Henrik demonstrated how to connect to the Icinga 2 API through the Icinga 2 Console. Working with the Icinga 2 API is probably the most obvious way to interact with Icinga. Still, I would like...

Build your own Icinga Module

Build your own Icinga Module

Building your own Icinga Module sounds like a big challenge, but is it really that hard? A look behind the scenes reveals that it's actually not as complicated as it sounds. But first things first: Why would you even want to create your own Module? It's fairly easy to...

Icinga Web Security Release: v2.6.4, v2.7.4 and v2.8.2

Icinga Web Security Release: v2.6.4, v2.7.4 and v2.8.2

We're releasing today multiple minor versions of Icinga Web 2 to fix a security issue that has been reported recently. The vulnerability in question allows an attacker to access arbitrary files which are readable by the process running Icinga Web 2. It has been...

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