Mastering Service Configuration in Icinga Director

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,...

Icinga DB Web Automation

Icinga DB Web Automation

Icinga DB Web Automation allows you to automate monitoring tasks and integrate them directly into your systems and workflows. It is possible to issue command actions without a browser. To do so, a form needs to be submitted by a tool such as cUrl. Every request you...

Observability vs Monitoring: Enhancing, Not Replacing

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....

Releasing Icinga for Windows v1.13.3

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

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

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...

Revising Icinga Exchange

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...

Common cloud monitoring challenges we can overcome!

Common cloud monitoring challenges we can overcome!

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, businesses are moving their operations to the cloud more than ever before. This shift brings incredible benefits like scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency. While it does introduce various common cloud monitoring...

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