Monitoring Automation with Icinga Director

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 fact, monitoring large environments is not a new demand for us at all. We...

Icinga Notifications: Custom Channel Plugins

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...

Why you need network monitoring?

Why you need network monitoring?

Network monitoring is a continuous analysis of a network to detect and correct any performance issues. Network monitoring involves collecting network statistics to determine the quality of services offered by the network. With tools like Icinga, it's possible to...

Icinga 2 Rocket.Chat notifications. The complete guide

Icinga 2 Rocket.Chat notifications. The complete guide

About one year ago the NETWAYS colleagues showed you how to let Icinga 2 notify users through XMPP/Jabber. Now it's time to also cover the somewhat more fancy Rocket.Chat. No Rocket.Chat? No problem! Setting up a test system is pretty easy: Clone this Git repository...

How to monitor a web server running NGINX|httpd

How to monitor a web server running NGINX|httpd

Web servers are software services that store resources for a website and then makes them available over the World Wide Web. These stored resources can be text, images, video and application data. Computers that are interfaced with the server mostly web browsers...

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...

Keeping up with Icinga Web Permissions and Restrictions

Keeping up with Icinga Web Permissions and Restrictions

This blogpost is a followup to the blogpost Icinga Web permissions and restrictions (how do they work, examples). In Icinga web 2 version 2.9, there are two cool updates to Permissions and Restrictions, namely Role Inheritance and Permission Refusal as explained by...

Monitor Windows without an Icinga Agent

Monitor Windows without an Icinga Agent

Looking to monitor your Windows systems with Icinga, but aren't allowed to install non-Microsoft certified software on them? Then you are in the right place. After all, you want to monitor your systems somehow. But you don't want to lose the support from MS...

Contributing to Open Source

Contributing to Open Source

If you're here you probably know the essence of open source already. To us, open source means more than just open source code - it’s also the ethics and the community feeling that goes along with that. For us it means that the people working on Icinga are more than...

Introducing dark and light theme modes

Introducing dark and light theme modes

We are constantly working to make Icinga even better by adding new useful features. We will be releasing Icinga Web 2 version 2.9.0 very soon. This version will have many new interesting features. Update: The initial version of this article mentioned v2.9 as target...

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