Like many, I’ve been experimenting with Claude recently and tried to explore not only its capabilities, but of course also its limitations. The illusion that I could assign it a task and the AI tool...
I tried to build a design system with Figma and Claude from Scratch
Like many, I’ve been experimenting with Claude recently and tried to explore not only its capabilities, but of course also its limitations. The illusion that I could assign it a task and the AI tool...
How to Create Your Own Plugins and Check Commands in Icinga 2
If you've been using Icinga 2 for a while, you probably know the built-in checks cover a lot of ground: disk space, CPU, memory, ping. But sooner or later you'll run into something specific to your setup that no existing plugin handles. That's where writing your own...
Get Valid TLS Certificates for Icinga Web Despite a Firewall
Lots of big companies lock down their IT infrastructure in the internal network, sometimes they even use only locally mirrored repositories. I totally understand this, especially since our CVE-2024-49369. Nowadays, when LLMs find security holes even in OpenBSD, you...
Releasing Icinga Reporting v1.0.1 and Icinga Certificate Monitoring v1.3.2
Today we’re announcing the general availability of Icinga Reporting v1.0.1 and Icinga Certificate Monitoring v1.3.2. Icinga Reporting Icinga Reporting version v1.0.1 ships only a bugfixes introduced with the previous release. The upgrade script from the previous...
Icinga 2 API with Let’s Encrypt certificates, just for fun
In our community forum Michael already outlined the possibility to operate Icinga 2 with an external certification authority, not the one Icinga 2 generates by itself. Thomas, one of our NETWAYS colleagues, reported his experience in that field: in short, it's easy to...
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...
Local Kubernetes-Cluster with Minikube
Hello there! I'm currently a trainee at Icinga, and I'm excited to share my experiences with you regarding our fascinating project involving the integration of Kubernetes into Icinga's monitoring infrastructure. To make this task more manageable and efficient, we've...
Releasing Icinga Reporting v1.0
Yes! It's true! As of today, we are announcing the general availability of Icinga Reporting in version 1.0. You can find all issues related to this release on our Roadmap. Please also refer to the corresponding upgrade section in the documentation. What's New? As you...
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...
Releasing Icinga Certificate Monitoring v1.3.0
Today we’re announcing the general availability of Icinga Certificate Monitoring in version 1.3.0. You can find all issues related to this release on our Roadmap. Please also refer to the corresponding upgrade section in the documentation. What’s New? We have made a...
Releasing Icinga Business Process Modeling v2.5
Today we’re announcing the general availability of Icinga Business Process Modeling v2.5.0. You can find all issues related to this release on our Roadmap. A Browser's Nemesis Since the very beginning, Icinga Business Process Modeling provides the possibility to...
Dependency Redundancy Groups in Icinga 2.14
Icinga 2.14 introduced a new feature that allows to better model complex dependencies between your hosts and services: redundancy groups. Let's take an e-mail server as an example. In order to deliver outgoing messages, it has to look up the addresses of the...
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