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...
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...
XSS Vulnerability in Icinga PHP Library
Today we announce a security update for Icinga PHP Library. It solves a severe cross-site scripting attack vulnerability and affects multiple Icinga products at once. It has been published as GHSA-55wf-5m3q-6jjf. Installing the update v0.19.2 as soon as possible is...
How to undo Git reset hard?
You just finished a long interactive rebase. You hit enter. Your commit history looks… wrong. There is a bunch of things that could go wrong: messed up an interactive rebase accidentally ran git reset --hard merged the wrong branch rebased onto the wrong base You...
Ipl-html: Introducing new Form Element Decorators
A Fresh Take on Form Element Decorators Decorators have always been a powerful concept in Icinga Web’s form system — letting developers control how form elements are displayed without hardcoding markup everywhere. But until recently, the decorator system had its...
Secure File Operations in Go with os.Root: Preventing Path Traversal
Go's os.Root feature, introduced in Go 1.24, is designed to improve filesystem security by restricting operations to a specific directory, making it much harder for attackers to exploit path traversal vulnerabilities. This is especially valuable for scenarios like...
Releasing Icinga Web Jira Integration v1.4.0
We are happy to announce the release of Icinga Web Jira Integration v1.4.0 today. You can find all issues related to this release on our roadmap. What’s It All About This release ensures the compatibility with Atlassian Jira 10.2 among other changes and fixes. Changes...
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
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...
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