We're happy to announce our first release of the year! Version 1.6 of the Icinga vSphere® Integration is out now and waiting to get installed on your Icinga monitoring environment. This release...

Releasing Icinga vSphere® Integration v1.6
We're happy to announce our first release of the year! Version 1.6 of the Icinga vSphere® Integration is out now and waiting to get installed on your Icinga monitoring environment. This release...

Releasing Icinga Director v1.10
We're excited to announce our next major release for Icinga Director, version 1.10! The new release comes with plenty of fixes, but also with some nice new features. Check out the full changelog for all details. New Sync Preview An advanced Sync Preview is one...

Quick tip: How to create Icinga reports with custom branding
With Icinga Reporting you can create custom SLA reports for hosts and services that are monitored with Icinga. The module for Icinga Web fetches existing data and takes planned downtimes into account. You can filter for certain hosts and services as well as set custom...
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...
Releasing Icinga Director v1.8.1
We are happy to announce the release of Icinga Director v1.8.1! The release includes many fixes in the UI but also increases the stability of Icinga Director in general. Even though it is not required, we do recommend to update to this version of Icinga Director if...
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
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...
Releasing Icinga Director v1.8
Today we're happy to announce the general availability of Icinga Director v1.8! This release focuses on improvements of monitoring automation tasks within the director and enhancements for delegating specific tasks to your teammates. Data field categories...
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
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...
Icinga User Survey 2019 Report
In late 2019 we were running our first ever user survey on Icinga. We always strive to get to know our users and their requirements better. Our goal for the survey was to get a general understanding about how Icinga is being used. The results are very interesting for...
Releasing Icinga Web v2.8.0
Today we're announcing the general availability of Icinga Web v2.8.0. Besides the compatibility with IcingaDB, this release includes fixes for access controls, support for newer PHP and MySQL versions and additional search functionality. Icinga Web 2.8-RC1 was part of...

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