What happens when you treat the service grid like a screen. Every now and then a side project starts as one thing and quietly turns into something much sillier. Mine started as a way to get more...
Playing GIFs in the Icinga DB Web Service Grid: What It Taught Me About Icinga 2, Icinga DB and Redis
What happens when you treat the service grid like a screen. Every now and then a side project starts as one thing and quietly turns into something much sillier. Mine started as a way to get more...
Icinga Web Filter Syntax: Operators, Wildcards and Custom Variables
An Icinga Web filter is a chain of conditions, each one a column, an operator, and a value, combined with & and |. You type it into the search bar of Icinga DB Web, but the same syntax shows up in URLs, dashboards, role restrictions, and the event rules of Icinga...
Releasing Icinga DB v1.5.1
Today we are announcing the release of Icinga DB version 1.5.1. This release addresses the issue of leaking SQL prepared statements when Icinga DB is configured as a source for Icinga Notifications. Each time the custom variables for an Icinga Notifications event were...
Releasing Icinga DB Web v1.1.1 and Icinga Web 2.12.1
Today we’re announcing the general availability of Icinga DB Web v1.1.1 and Icinga Web 2.12.1. Icinga DB Web You can find all issues related to this release on our Roadmap. Automated Migration The release of v1.0.0 already assisted in migrating URLs from the...
Figma’s powerful Auto Layout Feature
While it might be different within organizations, most demonstrations of Figma features publicly available use case you can see on the Internet are pretty basic. It makes sense for demonstration purposes, but I’d like to show how I use more complex Auto Layout setups...
Releasing Icinga DB Web v1.1
Today we’re announcing the general availability of Icinga DB Web v1.1.0. You can find all issues related to this release on our Roadmap. Please make sure to also check the respective upgrading section in the documentation. Things You Eagerly Waited For Keyboard...
Migrating to Icinga DB
Although Icinga DB has been around for some time and many customers and users are already using it, there may still be some who are wondering how to upgrade/migrate to Icinga DB. This post will briefly explain the components of the Icinga DB and how to install them in...
Releasing Icinga DB 1.1.1
We are happy to announce the release of Icinga DB version 1.1.1, whose packages are generally available on supported operating systems today. With this release, we address a number of bugs in the Icinga DB daemon, some of which caused a few crashes, we address some...
Icinga DB Web deep custom variable filter
In this blog post I will introduce you to filtering, based on deep custom variables in Icinga DB Web. In Icinga Web 2 monitoring module, it is not possible to filter deep custom variables. Example of deep custom variables involving dictionaries and arrays: vars.dummy...
Icinga DB Web Search Bar – Features & How It Works
With Icinga DB Web you can filter the list views in a very elegant and lovely manner. If you haven't tried this search bar yet, it's time to begin now. Unlike in the monitoring module, where you have to tediously filter the views based on clicking through all the...
Less is more … or more is more? Decide for yourself with Icinga DB Web list view modes
With Icinga DB Web you can now customise Icinga Web's list views to your needs. While in one scenario you might be more interested to see as many objects as possible at a glance, in another scenario detail attributes of only a few objects will be more important to...
New Releases for Icinga 2, Icinga Web and Icinga DB Web available
We've been working on a bunch of minor releases lately. Today we're happy to announce new versions for Icinga 2, Icinga Web and the Icinga DB Web module. Check out the details below. Icinga 2 v2.13.6 Today we are releasing Icinga 2.13.6. The main focus is improved...
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