Targeting hosts and services in Icinga 2 API requests

Targeting hosts and services in Icinga 2 API requests

Today, we are going to take a look at the Icinga 2 API and the various ways targets can be specified for different actions, such as querying information or scheduling downtimes. This post focuses on the API request payloads themselves and assumes some familiarity with...

Extending Unit-Testing on Icinga2

Extending Unit-Testing on Icinga2

Unit-Testing is important Obviously nobody is disagreeing with this. It's just that during ongoing development and while focusing on features and bug-fixes, testing often falls behind in priority, especially when developers would need to write tests for existing or...

How to do Agentless Monitoring with check_by_ssh

How to do Agentless Monitoring with check_by_ssh

The fundamentals of Icinga 2 are check plugins. They are being executed and their return value is mapped to either Host or Service objects. Everything else follows on top. These check plugins can be either from the Monitoring Plugins or custom. While their origin does...

Monitoring domains and DNSSEC properly

Monitoring domains and DNSSEC properly

First of all, if you own a domain, the following text is for you. In production you obviously want to reduce outages. And an outage of a DNS domain as such takes down all services under that domain, no matter whether your LAMP components are all up and running. At...

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