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...
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...
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,...
Ipl-html: Introducing new Form Element Decorators
A Fresh Take on Form Element Decorators Decorators have always been a powerful concept in Icinga Web’s form system — letting developers control how form elements are displayed without hardcoding markup everywhere. But until recently, the decorator system had its...
Icinga integration cases: OpsBridge and ServiceNow
The health of your systems and applications is fundamental for your organization’s infrastructure. Monitoring them indicates if there are any issues that need to be handled before they become serious and affect your customers. This is why companies often use a...
Icinga Reviews – Thanks for your great ratings!
We´d like to thank our loyal users and customers for the numerous top reviews of Icinga on Garnter Peer Insights! We´re very happy that you share your experience and satisfaction with other people on this review platform and support us with it. What is Gartner...
The Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins Collection
This is a guest blogpost from Linuxfabrik At Linuxfabrik we have been developing a collection of currently 130+ plugins for Icinga, Nagios and other compatible monitoring systems for more than two years now. Each of these plugins is a specialized command line tool...
Adapting Icinga Web modules To Icinga DB
Icinga DB web has a better layout and is more user friendly. This makes monitoring more simple. Hence it would be nice if we could adapt all the Icinga modules to Icinga DB. In this blogpost, I will discuss how to adapt Icinga Web modules to Icinga DB. To do this,...
Why you need network monitoring?
Network monitoring is a continuous analysis of a network to detect and correct any performance issues. Network monitoring involves collecting network statistics to determine the quality of services offered by the network. With tools like Icinga, it's possible to...
Icinga DB Housekeeping
Introduction We all know that the history data is important in monitoring. But this history data becomes obsolete over time and those records become garbage which would only fill up space. So it is important to remove obsolete history records to free up space. We call...
Introducing dark and light theme modes
We are constantly working to make Icinga even better by adding new useful features. We will be releasing Icinga Web 2 version 2.9.0 very soon. This version will have many new interesting features. Update: The initial version of this article mentioned v2.9 as target...
Icinga experts are here to support you
Icinga is the perfect, powerful monitoring stack that helps you tackle your monitoring challenge. It´s open source and free to use for anybody – be it a private person, a non-profit organization or a commercial company. Why pay for support?  However, although...
Designing Icinga’s Brand Identity
„Thanks for coming! Thanks for supporting us as a company, as a product, as our people! Enjoy the wonderful night!“ A shower of confetti was pouring over the heads of celebrating people just as our CEO Bernd finished his sentence. „I Gotta Feeling“ by Black Eyed Peas...
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