In this post we will take a look at the icingadb check command built into Icinga 2 for monitoring the health of Icinga DB. If you have already configured it, this blog post will give you some...
Monitoring the Monitoring: Demystifying the Icinga DB Health Check
In this post we will take a look at the icingadb check command built into Icinga 2 for monitoring the health of Icinga DB. If you have already configured it, this blog post will give you some...
Icinga Notifications Web: Desktop Notifications
We recently released the beta version of our Notification Web Module, which includes a cool feature that is not yet known to everyone. We named it Desktop Notifications (Browser Push Notifications). With this feature enabled, your browser can send you instant...
Icinga Notifications: Custom Sources
Icinga Notifications custom sources enable you to extend your monitoring capabilities beyond standard configurations. One of the advantages of the new Icinga Notifications is that it is more loosely coupled to Icinga 2. This is made possible by the concept of sources,...
Tutorial Videos on How to write your own Icinga Web module on YouTube!
Have you ever wanted to extend the functionality of Icinga Web to suit your specific needs, but didn't know where to start? Well, you're in luck! Last week, we released a series of tutorial videos on YouTube, hosted by Markus Opolka, Senior Consultant at NETWAYS,...
Icinga 2 API and debug console
Have you ever experienced configuration issues, such as notifications not being sent as expected or apply rules not matching all expected objects, probably due to an incorrectly set custom variable? Icinga 2 has several options to assist you in such situations. Last...
IPL: How to use ipl-web
In my ongoing blogpost series about the Icinga PHP library, I am briefly explaining what the individual components of this library do and how easily you can use them in your project. In my previous blog post, i already covered the ipl-html and explained how easy it is...
Icinga 2 API with Let’s Encrypt certificates, just for fun
In our community forum Michael already outlined the possibility to operate Icinga 2 with an external certification authority, not the one Icinga 2 generates by itself. Thomas, one of our NETWAYS colleagues, reported his experience in that field: in short, it's easy to...
IPL: How to use ipl-stdlib and ipl-i18n
In my previous blogpost, I explained how easy it is to validate forms with the ipl-validator. Today we will talk about the following two very useful libraries: Ipl-stdlib: All our libraries are based on this library. It provides many useful features like string...
Migrating to Icinga DB
Although Icinga DB has been around for some time and many customers and users are already using it, there may still be some who are wondering how to upgrade/migrate to Icinga DB. This post will briefly explain the components of the Icinga DB and how to install them in...
Mapping hostnames to locations with Icinga Director
Recently I came across the Maps module build and maintained by our community. The module displays host objects and annotations on openstreetmap using the JavaScript library leaflet.js. The module reads the coordinates for each host from custom variables and is able to...
How to resolve circular dependency in Icinga2
We recently announced the general availability of Icinga 2.14, which most of you might have noticed, and with that in mind, I'd like to show you how you can easily troubleshoot and eliminate some of the dependencies headaches known as the dependency cycle. What does...
CSS doesn’t need to be ugly
Ever looked at some CSS and your first instinct was to close the editor and never look at it again? I did. Though, I don't have the luxury to close the editor in such a case, as is probably often the case for others as well. Code grows with time and so do bad...
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