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...
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...
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...
Icinga Notifications Web: Schedule configuration
A few weeks ago, we released the first beta version of the Icinga Notifications Web module. The Configuration tab provides the option to create schedules that can be used as recipients for notifications. What is a Schedule and how does it work? A schedule is a...
Using Command Endpoint to execute Checks on Agents
Getting started using Icinga in a single node setup can already be quite a challenge for new users. Configuring checks on multiple nodes can seem at lot harder. With this blog post I will show you how easy it is to configure hosts and services in such an environment....
How we use the powerful new Icinga PHP Library to build the Icinga DB Web UI
When building Icinga DB Web we completely rewrote the basic Icinga Web UI. The "monitoring module", which it was called before. While this existed for some time and the and the underlying concepts were already used in the Icinga Director, we took the chance and...
Icinga 2 in iX Magazine Special Issue
Icinga 2 has been featured in a special issue of the German language iX Magazine. Written by our very own Icinga 2 developer, Michael Friedrich "Systems Monitoring with Icinga 2 - In Full View" offers a neatly packaged introduction to Icinga 2, it's capabilities and...
Icinga Network Monitoring Book by Packt
Since the first German book on Icinga was published, it seems like calls from the international, English speaking community have been answered. The first book dedicated to Icinga has been published in English, thanks to author Viranch Metha and the open source...
The Nagios/Icinga Cookbook by O’Reilly
The very first book on Icinga has just hit bookshop shelves: "Das Nagios/Icinga Kochbuch", thanks to the renowned tech publishing house O'Reilly. Written by Timo Kucza and Ralf Staudemeyer, the German language book offers handy monitoring recipes for both beginners...
Icinga Tutorial in iX Magazine
This month, Icinga has been featured in the German language iX Magazine. In a 3 part series, Sebastian Hetze offers readers a comprehensive introduction to Icinga. Part 1 in the October edition, titled "Die Server stets im Blick" gives an overview of Icinga and SNMP...
Icinga Wiki introduces French Community Wiki Manager
Just a couple months ago, we introduced the new Icinga Wiki. Now we'd like to introduce our first French Community Wiki Manager - Charles Judith. Systems administrator at Linagora, Charles is a monitoring expert in open source solutions. He is currently working on an...
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