This release roundup brings together Icinga Web SSO v1.0.0, Icinga Director v1.11.9, and Icinga vSphere® Integration v1.8.4. It introduces OpenID Connect single sign-on for Icinga Web and includes...
Icinga Director, vSphere® Integration, and SSO: New Releases Available
This release roundup brings together Icinga Web SSO v1.0.0, Icinga Director v1.11.9, and Icinga vSphere® Integration v1.8.4. It introduces OpenID Connect single sign-on for Icinga Web and includes...
Icinga Director v1.11.6 Release
We are happy to announce the release of Icinga Director version 1.11.6. This release addresses several important bug fixes and introduces improvements that enhance the overall stability of Icinga Director. Database Schema Upgrade Columns storing large strings for...
How to Fix Cyclic Inheritance Errors in Icinga Director during Object Configuration
Icinga Director is a powerful tool that greatly simplifies the configuration, management, and deployment of monitoring objects in Icinga. It provides a user-friendly interface and automation features that make complex setups easier to maintain. Occasionally, though,...
Mastering Service Configuration in Icinga Director
The Icinga Director configuration tool makes it easy to define monitoring objects through the web UI and deploy them to the Icinga 2 API. In this blog post, I’ll walk you through how to configure services in Icinga Director. If you haven't used Icinga Director yet,...
Releasing Icinga Web v2.11.5 and 2.12.3, Icinga Director 1.10.4 and 1.11.4, Icinga Reporting 1.0.3
Update (2025-03-26 16:45:00 UTC) We released a hotfix release for Icinga Web 2.11 and 2.12 afterwards. Please install 2.11.6 and 2.12.4, respectively. -- Today we release three updates, each for an integral component of Icinga, which all close a total of five security...
Releasing Icinga Director v1.11.2
We are pleased to announce the release of Icinga Director version 1.11.2, which addresses several important bug fixes to enhance the stability across different areas of the Director. UI Enhancements This update resolves several issues, including errors when changing...
Monitoring Automation with Icinga Director – Simplify Configuration Management
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 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 cases. Even in these cases it is worthwhile to keep it simple. On that...
Security Updates for Icinga Director
Icinga has published a total of five updates yesterday for Icinga Director and one of its dependencies, the incubator module. Their main purpose is to fix two Cross-Site-Request-Forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities. We treat them with a very high criticality and advice to...
Releasing Icinga Director v1.11
You may have noticed that, during the last few weeks, we released a bunch of new versions for different components of our stack. It's a very exciting time of the year for us, since we're currently finishing work that we have done through the last months. Today, we're...
Mapping Hostnames to Locations with Icinga Director – A Step-by-Step Guide
Recently I came across the Maps module build and maintained by our community. The module displays host objects and annotations on openstreetmap using the JavaScript library leaflet.js. The module reads the coordinates for each host from custom variables and is able to...
Icinga 2 Advanced Training – Monitoring redesigned
If you have some experience with Icinga 2 or you already visited the Icinga 2 Fundamentals training you are in the right place. I am about to give you a small introduction into Icinga 2 Advanced training, since I recently visited this training myself. I already...
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