Once a year, the Icinga team goes for a team event somewhere about an hour or two away from the office. This year's edition landed us at the Adventure Campus in Treuchtlichen, right in the middle of...
Two Days Away From the Keyboard: Our Team Event Recap
Once a year, the Icinga team goes for a team event somewhere about an hour or two away from the office. This year's edition landed us at the Adventure Campus in Treuchtlichen, right in the middle of...
Icinga 2 Security Update Preannouncement
The Icinga team would like to announce the forthcoming releases of Icinga 2 versions 2.16.2, 2.15.4, and 2.14.9. These releases will be made available on Monday 29th June 2026 between 12:00 and 14:00 UTC. These Icinga 2 releases will be security-fix releases...
New Icinga plugin: NETGEAR monitoring with Go
NETGEAR AV Line monitoring With the new NETGEAR AV Line monitoring plugin, you can easily monitor NETGEAR AV Line devices in Icinga 2. This lightweight yet powerful Go-based tool communicates directly with the devices’ API and provides clear status values – including...
Modernizing a legacy CMake build-system
CMake tends to have a bad reputation for being to complex and convoluted, but often that notion stems from very old versions of CMake. Sure, CMake is a Turing-complete scripting language, but that is really needed for an ecosystem as complex as that of C and C++. And...
Four Modern PHP Features That Show How Far the Language Has Come
PHP has evolved over the years and has become a lot reliable, faster and refined. And with the release of PHP 8, which contained many features (named arguments, union types, attributes, constructor property promotion, match expressions, the null safe operator (?->)...
Icinga Partnering in Action: The Shadow-Soft Success Story
Shadow-Soft has been our key partner in North America for more than a decade. During this time, they have built a strong enterprise monitoring practice around Icinga and successfully delivered complex projects across large customer environments. In our newly published...
Icinga Director v1.11.6 Release
We are happy to announce the release of Icinga Director version 1.11.6. This release addresses several important bug fixes and introduces improvements that enhance the overall stability of Icinga Director. Database Schema Upgrade Columns storing large strings for...
How to Migrate an Icinga 2 Master in a High Availability Setup
Moving an Icinga 2 master to a new machine requires careful preparation, especially in a master-to-master high availability setup. In production environments, such migrations are often part of broader infrastructure changes, platform standardization, or long-term...
Sync Your Users Into Icinga Notifications: Introducing the Contacts/Groups API
If you’ve ever onboarded a teammate at 4:57 PM on a Friday (or offboarded one at 4:58 PM… ), you know the pain: keeping notification contacts and groups up to date is work. With the Icinga Notifications REST API, you can automate that and avoid drift. That’s why I’m...
Releasing Icinga 2 v2.15.2, v2.14.8, v2.13.14 and Icinga for Windows v1.13.4, v1.12.4, v1.11.2
Toady, we are releasing multiple new versions of Icinga 2 and Icinga for Windows, all of them fixing a file permission issue present in all installations on Windows. Impact The following paths were created without setting proper permissions, allowing all local users...
SolarWinds Alternative: Why Icinga Is the Open Source Option for Scalable Infrastructure Monitoring
Searching for a SolarWinds alternative usually happens at a turning point. For some organizations, it starts with a renewal quote that exceeds expectations. For others, it follows a strategic review of vendor risk, subscription lock-in, or long-term monitoring costs....
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,...
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