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...
Icinga Kubernetes Helm Charts
Daniel Bodky and Markus Opolka from our partner NETWAYS developed the very first Icinga Kubernetes Helm Charts and released it in an alpha version. If you have ever wanted to deploy an entire Icinga stack in your Kubernetes cluster, now is your chance. I also want to...
IPL: How to use ipl-validator
In my last blogpost I explained how our ipl-html lib works and how to use it. With the help of ipl-html it is possible to add forms. Usually we want to validate the data of the form before submitting it and display messages if the validation fails. For this purpose,...
The future of Icinga + Windows: Schrödinger’s agent?
I remember as if it was yesterday. I participated at the OSMC 2014 and watched Bernd's talk "Current state of Icinga". In the live demo Bernd has showed some of the new things we've built. One of them he introduced somewhat hesitantly IMHO: Now there is... not only...
Releasing Icinga Certificate Monitoring v1.2.0
Today we’re announcing the general availability of the Icinga Certificate Monitoring in version 1.2.0. 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? To begin...
Releasing Icinga Web Jira Integration v1.3.0
We are happy to announce the release of Icinga Web Jira Integration v1.3.0 today. You can find all issues related to this release on our Roadmap. What's It All About The last state change of an Icinga object is now shown in the Jira issue description. This allows you...
Releasing Icinga Cube v1.3.0
Today we’re announcing the general availability of the Icinga Cube in version 1.3.0. You can find all issues related to this release on our Roadmap. What's it all about The impatient and attentive reader can take a look at the screenshot below first. It shows all the...
Leveraging component variants in Figma for UI Design
Being a Sketch user since it's early days, I found Figma looked really promising, when it finally appeared. While Sketch caught up on most of Figma's features, like collaboration, developer handoff and AutoLayout (at least to some degree), the small feature set...
How Tenacta Group uses Icinga
This is a blogpost from Livio Daina from Tenacta Group Tenacta Group is an Italian company with a portfolio of worldwide leading brands that share the same mission: to develop designs and technological innovations that will improve people's quality of life. We have...
The Tale of a Single Lock in Icinga 2
To speed up startup and reload times of Icinga 2, we have already put a lot of effort into improving the configuration load performance and still continue to do so for the next major release. In this blog post, I will share the story of one particular issue we found,...
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