If you want to get started with Icinga but don’t have a data center lying around, no worries. Icinga is a lightweight monitoring tool that works for both large infrastructures and small home labs....
Testing Icinga in a Homelab Setup With Nextcloud
If you want to get started with Icinga but don’t have a data center lying around, no worries. Icinga is a lightweight monitoring tool that works for both large infrastructures and small home labs....
SolarWinds Alternative: Why Icinga Is the Open Source Option for Scalable Infrastructure Monitoring
Searching for a SolarWinds alternative usually happens at a turning point. For some organizations, it starts with a renewal quote that exceeds expectations. For others, it follows a strategic review of vendor risk, subscription lock-in, or long-term monitoring costs....
Icinga Insiders: Collaborating With Users to Improve Icinga Web
Icinga Insiders: How User Research Shapes the Future of Icinga Web Icinga Insiders is one of our core initiatives for involving users directly in the ongoing development of Icinga Web, its modules, and new functionality. Through structured research sessions, we gain...
Analyzing configuration problems with Icinga 2
Today, I want to showcase an old, but still very useful, tool when it comes to analyzing and debugging an Icinga 2 configuration: the icinga2 object list command. It can be helpful in a variety of situations, for example when you want to verify that a config change...
Releasing Icinga v2.14.2
Version 2.14.2 is a hotfix release for master nodes that mainly fixes excessive disk usage caused by the InfluxDB writers. Icinga 2.14.0 introduced a change to the InfluxDB Writer that resulted in InfluxDB storing the data less efficiently. This release restores the...
Icinga DB Web migration made easier
For users using monitoring module, migrating their custom dashboards, navigation items and permissions and restrictions to Icinga DB Web has been made easier with the recent Icinga DB Web release (v1.1.1) through its migrate command. Once Icinga DB Web has been...
Top 3 Icinga Components You Can’t Ignore
Monitoring your systems is like having a superhero keeping an eye on your digital realm. And when it comes to superheroes in the world of monitoring, Icinga takes center stage. But did you know that Icinga becomes even mightier with the help of components? In this...
Critical hotfix releases: Icinga 2.14.1 and 2.13.9
Imagine you've installed Icinga 2.0.0 on 2014-06-06, the day it was released. You've tested its features, over the time we've added more of them and by now your test cluster went in production. An Icinga cluster operates on TLS which involves a root CA, typically...
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...
Join the Icinga Insiders Community
Building open source software comes with the great benefit of receiving feedback constantly from our users and community. In our public code repositories on GitHub we collect bugs and feature requests. With our community forum we provide a platform for Icinga users to...
Elevate Your IT Service Offering with an Official Icinga Partnership
In the dynamic landscape of IT services, staying ahead of the curve is not just a strategy but a necessity. For IT service providers already consulting clients on monitoring solutions, taking the next step to engage in an official partnership with Icinga can be a...
Releasing Icinga Reporting v1.0.1 and Icinga Certificate Monitoring v1.3.2
Today we’re announcing the general availability of Icinga Reporting v1.0.1 and Icinga Certificate Monitoring v1.3.2. Icinga Reporting Icinga Reporting version v1.0.1 ships only a bugfixes introduced with the previous release. The upgrade script from the previous...
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