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...
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...
Let’s Encrypt Stops Expiration Emails – How to Ensure Your Certificates Stay Valid with SSL Certificate Monitoring
No More Expiration Emails – What Now SSL/TLS certificates are critical for secure communication, and keeping track of their expiration is essential. Until now, Let’s Encrypt has sent email notifications when certificates were about to expire. However, as of June 2025,...
Managing Multiple Service Instances with a Systemd Generator
When working with systemd services in Linux, you might encounter situations where multiple instances of a service need to be managed dynamically. When I had to develop a solution to monitor multiple Kubernetes clusters with Icinga for Kubernetes, I ran into exactly...
Icinga for Windows Preview: Visualize your Metrics!
It has been a while since we published some news regarding Icinga for Windows - that's why we would like to tell you one month ahead about a big change which follows with version 1.10 in August. The Long Journey Since the first release of Icinga for Windows including...
Finally accomplished – Icinga DB Released
We couldn't be happier and are proud to announce the final release of Icinga DB today. After many years of development and one or the other setback on the way to the release, we are proud to finally hand you the final version of Icinga DB for your monitoring...
Embedding Git Commit Information in Go Binaries
Embedding Git commit information in Go Binaries is essential for identifying exact software versions, especially when working with development builds. So it's good if software is able to tell you its version, for example by calling it with --version. For release...
Releasing Icinga for Windows v1.9.0 – An Isolated Experience
Today we are happy to announce that we are releasing Icinga for Windows v1.9.0. This release cycle is the biggest one yet, because we are releasing new versions for everything! This includes Framework Basic Plugins MSSQL Plugins Hyper-V Plugins Cluster Plugins...
Building a strong relationship with Red Hat
Working together with other companies is a crucial part of our everyday business. Be it with our customers, business partners or technical partners - a close relationship is key for every future collaboration. Vendors of operating systems play an important role in...
How to use path wildcards in Graphite Module
The Graphite module of Icingaweb2 is a great tool for rendering graphs from performance data. The latest version 1.2.0 introduces some bug fixes and new features like dark and light mode support, a lot of new templates, support for path wildcard, etc. The support for...
Parameterizing GitLab CI/CD?
While doing packaging for Icinga, I noticed we have a lot of YAML files describing GitLab pipelines doing very similar jobs. The same build job across different operating systems. That’s wasteful behaviour, which leads to a bigger workload when it comes to modifying...
Releasing Icinga Web v2.10
Today we’re announcing the general availability of Icinga Web v2.10.0. 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. The Appearance of Dark and Light We have...
Icinga 2 IRC notifications. The complete guide
A few months ago I wrote about sending notifications to Rocket.Chat. While that messaging tool is quite powerful, one may also prefer to keep it simple. So let's also address the good old IRC. No test system? No problem! Setting up an IRC daemon is pretty easy:...
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