Last time, we explored the concept of variable scopes in Icinga 2, which help you manage and organize your DSL configurations effectively. As promised, today we'll dive into another, how shall I...
Understanding Namespaces in Icinga 2 DSL
Last time, we explored the concept of variable scopes in Icinga 2, which help you manage and organize your DSL configurations effectively. As promised, today we'll dive into another, how shall I...
Releasing Icinga for Windows v1.14.0 – We have been cooking!
As Bernd mentioned at last year's OSMC, the Icinga for Windows team was heavy working on v1.14.0 which was going to be released in December. Well, we are off a couple of days, but we believe the wait was worth it! Security Update Let's first get the elephant...
Icinga Insiders: Collaborating With Users to Improve Icinga Web
Icinga Insiders: How User Research Shapes the Future of Icinga Web Icinga Insiders is one of our core initiatives for involving users directly in the ongoing development of Icinga Web, its modules, and new functionality. Through structured research sessions, we gain...
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...
Extending Unit-Testing on Icinga2
Unit-Testing is important Obviously nobody is disagreeing with this. It's just that during ongoing development and while focusing on features and bug-fixes, testing often falls behind in priority, especially when developers would need to write tests for existing or...
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 services in Icinga Director. If you haven't used Icinga Director yet,...
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...
Dashboard Sharing – The Hard Way
Current Limitation: Dashboard Sharing Not Yet Supported Unlike menu items, dashboards in Icinga Web 2 currently can't be shared across users. This is something we will implement in future versions, but for now users can only create dashboards for themselves. We don't...
A little love for two old fellas – Icinga Business Process Modeling and Icinga Web Graphite Integration
Today is the day, we grant two products their long overdue maintenance. Maintenance always sounds boring, I hear you. But let me remind you that this also means we do and take care! And what this actually is all about: Icinga Business Process Modeling v2.5.2 Icinga...
Beyond PHP-FPM: Modern PHP Application Servers
For decades, PHP has powered the web using a simple model: process a request, send a response, then shut down. This model, especially in the form of CGI and PHP-FPM, is easy to understand but increasingly inefficient for modern web demands. The Traditional Model: CGI...
IPL: How to create lists with ipl-web
In my previous blog post, I explained how to build lists using ipl-web widgets. That method will soon be deprecated due to its complexity. With the recent ipl-web release, we have introduced a simpler and more flexible approach to building lists, using a lightweight...
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