Today's post provides insights into packaging Icinga Go applications and explains why there are seven Icinga DB version 1.5.1 packages. # apt-cache show icingadb | grep 'Version: 1.5.1' Version:...
Specifics in Packaging Icinga Go Applications
Today's post provides insights into packaging Icinga Go applications and explains why there are seven Icinga DB version 1.5.1 packages. # apt-cache show icingadb | grep 'Version: 1.5.1' Version:...
Password Policies in Icinga Web
Icinga Web 2 now ships a PasswordPolicyHook that gives administrators and module developers full control over what constitutes a valid password. Instead of hard-coding a single rule set for every deployment, the hook makes password validation an extension point: any...
Building a Shared Icon and Font Library for Icinga Web
If you've copied the same icon font or the same LESS helper into two or three Icinga Web modules, you've hit the problem libraries exist to solve. This guide builds one from scratch: a small, self-contained icon and font pack that any number of modules can share, with...
Announcing Icinga for Kubernetes v0.2.0
We are excited to announce the release of Icinga for Kubernetes v0.2.0! This update brings a host of new features and improvements that enhance our monitoring solution for Kubernetes. It makes it easier than ever to analyze problems and understand complex Kubernetes...
Icinga Notifications: Incidents, Escalations, and Event Rules – How to Manage Alerts Effectively
Following the Icinga Notifications beta announcement, we already had a more general post on how to get started and one going into the details of schedules. This week's blog post is a follow up in this series and will describe incidents, escalations, and event rules in...
Multi Element Selection in Icinga DB Web
From time to time we want to bring not so widely known features of Icinga into spotlight. In this effort it’s a not so obvious feature, that was available in the monitoring module of Icinga Web 2 at some point already. It has also been available in Icinga DB Web since...
Releasing Icinga for Windows v1.13.0-Beta1
Today we are very happy to announce the first beta release of Icinga for Windows with version 1.13.0.0! This new release provides a huge number of improvements and changes to the Framework as well as the default Windows Plugins, which we will talk about later on. Why...
Icinga Director: Cloning dictionary row entries for objects from import sources
Over use of dictionaries in monitoring leads to complex and ugly configurations. This in turn makes monitoring complicated. Hence, it is advisable to use it, only if it is needed or in special cases. Even in these cases it is worthwhile to keep it simple. On that...
Visualise your Icinga Cluster with Clustergraph
This is a guest blogpost from Dave Kempe from Sol1 At Sol1, we provide services around scaling and automating Icinga rollouts for customers. In large environments, we make heavy use of the excellent distributed monitoring features of Icinga to build redundant clusters...
Icinga Notifications Web: Schedule configuration
A few weeks ago, we released the first beta version of the Icinga Notifications Web module. The Configuration tab provides the option to create schedules that can be used as recipients for notifications. What is a Schedule and how does it work? A schedule is a...
Getting Started With Icinga Notifications
Icinga Notifications and Icinga Notifications Web just celebrated their first beta release. This post will try to help you get started by explaining concepts and configurations.
Releasing Icinga DB Web v1.1.3 and a IPL security release
Today we’re announcing the general availability of Icinga DB Web v1.1.3 as well as a vulnerability fix for the Icinga PHP Library (IPL) in version 0.14.1. You can find all issues related to Icinga DB Web on its Roadmap. The fixed vulnerability is covered here. Icinga...
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