Using Icinga 2 on NixOS

Using Icinga 2 on NixOS

I use NixOS by the way. And today I'm going to show you how to operate a simple Icinga setup using that operating system. I.e. a single node with checks and notifications. In contrast to Icinga Web 2 or Redis, NixOS provides an Icinga 2 package, but no module....

Enhanced Icinga 2 Container Images

Enhanced Icinga 2 Container Images

As some of you might have already noticed, we recently gave our official Icinga 2 container image builds a complete overhaul. These new images are currently available only as snapshot builds but will replace the existing stable images with the next Icinga 2 v2.16.0...

Finally accomplished – Icinga DB Released

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

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...

Building a strong relationship with Red Hat

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

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?

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

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

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:...

Automatically Testing Icinga DB

Automatically Testing Icinga DB

In today's blog post, I want to present something related to Icinga DB that you most likely will not come in touch with as a regular user: some of the test cases we built for Icinga DB and the tooling created to support them. The Challenge Even though Icinga DB is a...

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