Why wait for the next poll? An SNMP trap is a real-time alert sent from a device to a monitoring system, without waiting for polling. Ever had a router die silently at 3 AM while your monitoring...
What is SNMP Trap: Real-Time Alerts for Network Monitoring
Why wait for the next poll? An SNMP trap is a real-time alert sent from a device to a monitoring system, without waiting for polling. Ever had a router die silently at 3 AM while your monitoring...
Upgrade your monitoring lists with icon images
Recently I was importing an Icinga configuration for testing purposes. Working with this configuration, I found that there were icon images assigned to the objects. Sadly, those didn’t display, because I didn’t have the icon set installed. So I thought of creating my...
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,...
Ownership change of the ansible-collection-icinga to NETWAYS
After NETWAYS has already taken a leading role in the past in maintaining the Ansible Collection Icinga, contributing features and bug fixes, it’s now official: The Ansible Collection Icinga is moving into the NETWAYS namespace (on GitHub and Ansible Galaxy). The...
Observability vs Monitoring: Enhancing, Not Replacing
In the dynamic world of IT operations, a common misconception has emerged: Observability vs Monitoring is often framed as a battle where one replaces the other. At Icinga, where open-source monitoring is our expertise, we aim to clarify this misunderstanding....
Investment Trends in Infrastructure Monitoring Market: What Users Should Know
In recent months, the IT monitoring landscape has seen notable investment activity: Turn/River Capital acquired SolarWinds. The same firm previously invested in Paessler (PRTG). Checkmk announced a strategic investment from PSG. These developments are part of a larger...
Releasing Icinga for Windows v1.13.3
Today we are happy to announce that - after a long bugfixing session - we released Icinga for Windows v1.13.3. This release ships with a new PowerShell Framework (v1.13.3) and PowerShell Plugins (v1.13.1). Breaking Change for Scheduled-Task plugin With Icinga for...
How To Pick The Correct Metrics For Your Monitoring
This is a guest blogpost by Adam Sweet from the Icinga Partner Transitiv Technologies. Since this is a longer post, we added a tl;dr at the end. For many, host and application monitoring is an afterthought at the end of a project. Some people don’t think about...
Monitor Microservices Effectively: A Practical Guide
Contents What Is Microservice Monitoring? Why Monitoring Microservices Is Different – and What It Means for You Key Metrics and Signals You Should Track Best Practices for Monitoring Microservices Monitoring Tools for Microservices: What to Look For Microservice...
Automation: Data processing of imported data using property modifiers in Icinga Director
The raw data imported from the external sources (CSV, SQL, REST API, LDAP, etc.) is usually not in the right format. Hence, they have to be processed or converted before they are used to modify objects using synchronization rules. To do this, Icinga Director provides...
Looking for a PRTG Alternative? Here’s Why You Should Consider Icinga
If you’re reading this, chances are high you’re looking for a PRTG alternative and considering switching from Paessler PRTG to Icinga. Maybe it’s the rising costs of PRTG, or maybe you want a monitoring solution that gives you more flexibility and control. Whatever...
Revising Icinga Exchange
Icinga is an open-source project, but it's only become the product we like to use thanks to co-development, brainstorming and suggestions from the community. That's why we created a platform in the past to facilitate the exchange of custom implementations like check...
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