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...
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...
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...
Mastering Service Configuration in Icinga Director
The Icinga Director configuration tool makes it easy to define monitoring objects through the web UI and deploy them to the Icinga 2 API. In this blog post, I’ll walk you through how to configure services in Icinga Director. If you haven't used Icinga Director yet,...
Chart.js: Visualizing Data for Better Insights
In the field of data visualization, Chart.js is a popular JavaScript library used to make flexible and good-looking charts. It's simple and versatile, making it a great choice for many uses, including monitoring systems. This library ensures that charts display well...
Making Use of Previous State in Icinga2 Check Commands
When writing a custom check plugin for Icinga 2, there are situations where in addition to observing the current state of a system, taking the past into account as well can be helpful. A common case for this is when the data source provides counter values, i.e. values...
Icinga for your desktop
To be clear from the beginning, we won't make any desktop application things. But to compensate for that, we have another gift for you, that let's you express your love for Icinga or at least remind you of your favorite monitoring tool, when all your windows are...
Releasing Icinga Reporting v1.0.2 and Icinga PDF Export v0.11.0
We are happy to announce the release of Icinga PDF Export v0.11.0 and Icinga Reporting v1.0.2 today. In this blog post I will talk about what is new in these releases. Icinga PDF Export You can find all issues related to this release on the module's roadmap. The...
Releasing Icinga Web Jira Integration v1.3.4
We are happy to announce the release of Icinga Web Jira Integration v1.3.4 today. You can find all issues related to this release on our roadmap. What's It All About This release ensures the compatibility with PHP 8.3 and fixes the following issues. Fixes issue with...
Insights from Feedback Week 2024: Enhancing Icinga Community Experience
At Icinga, our community is at the heart of everything we do. That's why we dedicated a week to hear directly from you during our Feedback Week, held from April 15th to April 19th. We're excited to share the key takeaways and insights from the surveys conducted across...
Releasing Icinga Business Process Modelling v2.5.1
We’ve just released Icinga Business Process Modelling v2.5.1, and it comes with a few valuable updates and fixes to make modelling your infrastructure even smoother. With Business Process Modelling, you can combine multiple monitoring checks into logical units –...
Releasing Icinga Cube 1.3.3
We present you the tiniest but very important Icinga DB Web related bugfix release (v1.3.3)! If you had an issue with the module crashing, when certain hosts were in an unreachable state, you will be happy to hear that this bug has been fixed. Icinga DB Web (since...
Releasing Icinga DB 1.2.0 and Icinga DB Web 1.1.2
We are excited to release two new versions today: Icinga DB v1.2.0 and Icinga DB Web v1.1.2. Icinga DB This release addresses multiple issues related to fault recoveries, with a particular focus on retryable database errors that may occur when using Icinga DB with...
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