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...
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...
Monitoring Automation with Icinga Director
Automating the monitoring process for a huge amount of servers, virtual machines, applications, services, private and public clouds is a main driver for users when they decide to use Icinga. In fact, monitoring large environments is not a new demand for us at all. We...
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...
The Tale of a Single Lock in Icinga 2
To speed up startup and reload times of Icinga 2, we have already put a lot of effort into improving the configuration load performance and still continue to do so for the next major release. In this blog post, I will share the story of one particular issue we found,...
Icinga Camp Berlin: Program out now!
We are very happy to present you the program for this years’ Icinga Camp Berlin, a fine line-up with great expertise and many best practices. Current State of Icinga Get an update on the Current State of Icinga from our one and only CEO Bernd Erk. Bernd’s talk will...
Why is Icinga called Icinga?
It's the year 2009, a nice weekend in late spring and a small group of monitoring enthusiasts comes together to discuss how to move forward with the idea of forking Nagios. Plans were made to make it faster, easier, more scalable, and simply better. Of course, such a...
IPL: How to use ipl-html
In my previous blogpost I briefly explained the IPL and the tasks that these individual libs can perform. Today I want to explain how our ipl-html lib works and how to use it. This library helps you write HTML in a very simple and safe way. You don't need text...
Security releases: Icinga 2.13.7 and 2.12.10
Recently the OpenSSL project released OpenSSL v1.1.1t and advised its users to upgrade due to several CVEs that release has fixed. We're not certified security experts, but we know that a redundant update is better than a missing update. While on Linux the OpenSSL...
Icinga at CfgMgmtCamp
After a two year pause the Config Management Camp finally took place in Ghent last week. After an almost seven hour drive we made it to our Airbnb and right after the check in we headed out to the Speakers Dinner where we got to enjoy some beer and food and catch up...
Icinga Camp Berlin 2023 – First Speakers!
We're all excited about our speakers line-up and hope you'll like it as well! Today we want to present to you the first three monitoring experts who will be on stage at the fabulous Kulturbrauerei Berlin. Current State of Icinga Bernd Erk is CEO and co-founder...
Releasing Icinga Director Branches v1.3: Enhanced Branching for Better Configuration Management
If you're an Icinga user, you already know the importance of having a streamlined and efficient configuration management process. With the release of Icinga Director Branches v1.3, this process just got even better! In this latest version, Icinga Director introduces...
Why Open Source Cloud Monitoring?
When operating a larger business or project, one problem comes quickly apparent: How can I know that my servers and their applications are up and the performance is good across the board? The answer is, of course, monitoring software. But why someone should consider...
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