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...
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...
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...
Women in Tech: My Journey at Icinga
Four years ago I joined Icinga. Back then, everything was new to me: a new team, a new industry, and an exciting challenge. Today, four years later, I look back on an incredible, inspiring journey – one that has taught me so much, both professionally and personally,...
Understanding Observability, Monitoring, and Telemetry Differences
Observability vs. Monitoring vs. Telemetry: Key Differences Explained Monitoring, observability, and telemetry are three related but distinct concepts in IT operations, and they are easy to mix up. Telemetry is the process that collects and transmits data from your...
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