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...
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...
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...
Dependency Redundancy Groups in Icinga 2.14
Icinga 2.14 introduced a new feature that allows to better model complex dependencies between your hosts and services: redundancy groups. Let's take an e-mail server as an example. In order to deliver outgoing messages, it has to look up the addresses of the...
Figma’s powerful Auto Layout Feature
While it might be different within organizations, most demonstrations of Figma features publicly available use case you can see on the Internet are pretty basic. It makes sense for demonstration purposes, but I’d like to show how I use more complex Auto Layout setups...
Content-Security-Policy: How to add inline CSS to HTML Documents in Icinga Modules
Since the Icinga Web 2.12 release we have added a setting to enable content security policy in Icinga Web. This provides security against Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks when the setting is enabled. This is done by adding Content-Security-Policy in our HTTP...
Releasing Icinga DB Web v1.1
Today we’re announcing the general availability of Icinga DB Web v1.1.0. You can find all issues related to this release on our Roadmap. Please make sure to also check the respective upgrading section in the documentation. Things You Eagerly Waited For Keyboard...
Releasing Icinga Web v2.12
Today we’re announcing the general availability of Icinga Web v2.12.0. You can find all issues related to this release on our Roadmap. Please make sure to also check the respective upgrading section in the documentation. PHP 8.2 Support This release finally adds...
What Is DevRel? Developer Relations Explained
DevRel meaning and definition DevRel is short for Developer Relations. Developer Relations is exactly what it sounds like, a marketing policy that prioritizes relationships with developers. In general society, there is a word known as PR which means Public Relations....
IPL: How to use ipl-stdlib and ipl-i18n
In my previous blogpost, I explained how easy it is to validate forms with the ipl-validator. Today we will talk about the following two very useful libraries: Ipl-stdlib: All our libraries are based on this library. It provides many useful features like string...
Migrating to Icinga DB
Although Icinga DB has been around for some time and many customers and users are already using it, there may still be some who are wondering how to upgrade/migrate to Icinga DB. This post will briefly explain the components of the Icinga DB and how to install them in...
Monitor all operating systems with one solution: Icinga 2
We as a company build monitoring software. And we have committed to diversity. It is just logical and consequent for us to apply this principle not only to the people who do the work, but also to the work itself. To the monitoring software we build. Especially to...
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