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...
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...
Releasing Icinga Dependency Views 1.0.1
Today we’re announcing the availability of Icinga Dependency Views v1.0.1. Updated packages are available. In This Release Sometimes it feels like pure irony: you set up beautiful, custom views in Icinga; only to find they don’t show what you expect. Or worse, they...
Releasing Icinga DB Web v1.2.2 and Icinga Web v2.12.5
Today we’re announcing the general availability of Icinga DB Web v1.2.2 and Icinga Web 2.12.5. Icinga DB Web This is a security release. It is recommended to upgrade quickly. You can find all issues related to this release on our roadmap. Access Granted The new...
Introducing Icinga Module for vSphere – Releasing version 1.2
One of the pillars of Icinga is integrations. With it's open APIs and various extensions, Icinga is capable of integrating seamlessly into your existing infrastructure. Today I want to give you an introduction to our VMware integration and share some details about the...
Icinga 2 Rocket.Chat notifications. The complete guide
About one year ago the NETWAYS colleagues showed you how to let Icinga 2 notify users through XMPP/Jabber. Now it's time to also cover the somewhat more fancy Rocket.Chat. No Rocket.Chat? No problem! Setting up a test system is pretty easy: Clone this Git repository...
Releasing Icinga DB v1.0-RC2 – Key Updates & Improvements
We are super excited to release the second Release Candidate of Icinga DB! This release comes after many hours, days and months of experimenting, re-thinking and rebuilding our own code and marks a huge step towards a new data backend for Icinga. Why Icinga DB Since...
Polishing the Icinga DB Web User Interface
When redesigning the new Icinga DB Web interface elements we already started establishing consistent design elements. This is even more supported by developing the Icinga PHP Library (IPL) from the ground up. IPL makes developing reusable widgets a lot easier for...
How to monitor a web server running NGINX|httpd
Web servers are software services that store resources for a website and then makes them available over the World Wide Web. These stored resources can be text, images, video and application data. Computers that are interfaced with the server mostly web browsers...
What to expect from an Icinga Fundamentals training
Let's set the scene: You just started out with Icinga, maybe because you have realised your need for monitoring or you have inherited an environment. Maybe your boss just decided that this is what you are going to do now. So you are now sitting in front of the...
Releasing Icinga for Windows v1.6.0 – Easier and more Secure
Today we are happy to announce the release of Icinga for Windows v1.6.0, which we already demonstrated on YouTube last week. This is one of our largest releases so far, as we improve the entire usability, flexibility, and security of Icinga for Windows. The following...
MySQL queries – faster than light (almost)
(The title image from NASA is available under the CC BY 2.0 license.) At the moment I'm working at a tool for migrating Icinga 2 IDO history to Icinga DB. Sure, one could also run IDO and Icinga DB in parallel for one year and then switch to Icinga DB if they only...
Icinga 2.13.1 + 2.12.6 + 2.11.11: Security and Bugfix Releases
Today we're releasing the security and bugfix versions 2.13.1, 2.12.6 and 2.11.11. The main focus of these versions is a security vulnerability in the TLS certificate verification of our metrics writers ElasticsearchWriter, GelfWriter, InfluxdbWriter and...
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