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...

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...

Icinga Notifications: Incident muting

Icinga Notifications: Incident muting

In a previous article, Julian provided a comprehensive overview of the characteristics and functionality of Incidents in Icinga Notifications. In today's blog, I will explain the concept of Incident muting and its underlying mechanisms. What is Incident Muting? The...

Icinga Notifications: Custom Channel Plugins

Icinga Notifications: Custom Channel Plugins

As many of you have already seen in our previous blog posts and our early beta release, we're working on a new, independent notification module. Right now, we only offer three ready-made channels for sending notifications. Today, I want to show you how you can create...

Multi Element Selection in Icinga DB Web

Multi Element Selection in Icinga DB Web

From time to time we want to bring not so widely known features of Icinga into spotlight. In this effort it’s a not so obvious feature, that was available in the monitoring module of Icinga Web 2 at some point already. It has also been available in Icinga DB Web since...

Icinga Package Repository Key Rotation, 2024

Icinga Package Repository Key Rotation, 2024

Icinga uses it's own repositories to distribute installation packages for the Icinga software. Today, we're announcing the rotation of the GPG key used to sign our repositories and packages. Currently, our repository is signed with a 1024 bit DSA key. Key rotation is...

Icinga Notifications Web: Schedule configuration

Icinga Notifications Web: Schedule configuration

A few weeks ago, we released the first beta version of the Icinga Notifications Web module. The Configuration tab provides the option to create schedules that can be used as recipients for notifications. What is a Schedule and how does it work? A schedule is a...

Effective Monitoring Strategy: 10 Tips for Success

Effective Monitoring Strategy: 10 Tips for Success

As a software developer in training at Icinga, I've learned a lot about the nuances and importance of monitoring systems. Effective monitoring is critical for maintaining the health, performance and security of any infrastructure or application. Here are ten essential...

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