Introduction: Why Alert Fatigue Hits Sysadmins Sooner or Later If you’ve ever muted your phone during a maintenance window, only to miss a real outage an hour later, you’re not alone. Sysadmins on...
Drowning in Alert Fatigue? How to Regain Control of Your Monitoring
Introduction: Why Alert Fatigue Hits Sysadmins Sooner or Later If you’ve ever muted your phone during a maintenance window, only to miss a real outage an hour later, you’re not alone. Sysadmins on...
How to Fix Cyclic Inheritance Errors in Icinga Director during Object Configuration
Icinga Director is a powerful tool that greatly simplifies the configuration, management, and deployment of monitoring objects in Icinga. It provides a user-friendly interface and automation features that make complex setups easier to maintain. Occasionally, though,...
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...
Releasing Icinga Reporting v1.0.2 and Icinga PDF Export v0.11.0
We are happy to announce the release of Icinga PDF Export v0.11.0 and Icinga Reporting v1.0.2 today. In this blog post I will talk about what is new in these releases. Icinga PDF Export You can find all issues related to this release on the module's roadmap. The...
Releasing Icinga Web Jira Integration v1.3.4
We are happy to announce the release of Icinga Web Jira Integration v1.3.4 today. You can find all issues related to this release on our roadmap. What's It All About This release ensures the compatibility with PHP 8.3 and fixes the following issues. Fixes issue with...
Releasing Icinga DB 1.2.0 and Icinga DB Web 1.1.2
We are excited to release two new versions today: Icinga DB v1.2.0 and Icinga DB Web v1.1.2. Icinga DB This release addresses multiple issues related to fault recoveries, with a particular focus on retryable database errors that may occur when using Icinga DB with...
Releasing Icinga for Windows v1.12.0
It has been a long time since our last release, but today it is finally time to release Icinga for Windows v1.12.0! We made some huge improvements to certain areas of Icinga for Windows, which we are going to talk about. Eventlog Memory-Leak goes Bye-Bye One of the...
Icinga for Kubernetes – How to Monitor Your Containers Effectively
Some time ago, we started research and development efforts to create components for Icinga aimed at monitoring Kubernetes environments. Over the past months, we have gained valuable insights into the platform and how we can monitor Kubernetes with Icinga efficiently....
Icinga 2 API and debug console
Have you ever experienced configuration issues, such as notifications not being sent as expected or apply rules not matching all expected objects, probably due to an incorrectly set custom variable? Icinga 2 has several options to assist you in such situations. Last...
Introducing our new Roadmap Page
Hey there, fellow open-source enthusiasts! At Icinga, we've always been committed to transparency, community engagement, and continuous improvement. That's why we're excited to introduce a new page on our website that will provide you with insights into the future...
Server-Sent Events: An Overlooked Browser Feature
In an ever growing world of libraries, frameworks and content packagers, we tend to loose the focus on already available native technology, which comes shipped with tools that we use on a daily basis. One such feature goes by the name of Server-Sent Events and it has...
Security Updates for Icinga Director
Icinga has published a total of five updates yesterday for Icinga Director and one of its dependencies, the incubator module. Their main purpose is to fix two Cross-Site-Request-Forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities. We treat them with a very high criticality and advice to...
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