Announcing Icinga for Kubernetes v0.3.0

Announcing Icinga for Kubernetes v0.3.0

We’re excited to share that Icinga for Kubernetes v0.3.0 is here! This release is packed with features designed to make monitoring your Kubernetes environments smoother, smarter, and more efficient. Let’s take a closer look at what’s new:   Monitor Multiple...

Observability vs Monitoring: Enhancing, Not Replacing

Observability vs Monitoring: Enhancing, Not Replacing

In the dynamic world of IT operations, a common misconception has emerged: Observability vs Monitoring is often framed as a battle where one replaces the other. At Icinga, where open-source monitoring is our expertise, we aim to clarify this misunderstanding....

What are infrastructure monitoring metrics?

What are infrastructure monitoring metrics?

Nowadays businesses rely heavily on robust and resilient infrastructure to deliver uninterrupted services to their customers. This includes things like servers, databases, and cloud-based systems. It's important to monitor the health and performance of this...

The most important infrastructure monitoring requirements

The most important infrastructure monitoring requirements

When setting up new monitoring software or migrating, it's important to have a strong backbone in place for the systems, so you can cover as many services with as little manual burden as possible. Of course, defining the resources - like HTTP, SSH, etc. services or...

The future of Icinga + Windows: Schrödinger’s agent?

The future of Icinga + Windows: Schrödinger’s agent?

I remember as if it was yesterday. I participated at the OSMC 2014 and watched Bernd's talk "Current state of Icinga". In the live demo Bernd has showed some of the new things we've built. One of them he introduced somewhat hesitantly IMHO: Now there is... not only...

A Short Overview: GitLab Tokens

A Short Overview: GitLab Tokens

During my recent work on extending our GitLab packaging capabilities, I came across various types of tokens that can be used to authenticate users, services, and pipelines while using GitLab CI/CD. Each token has its unique features and use cases that can help ensure...

Releasing Icinga Certificate Monitoring v1.2.0

Releasing Icinga Certificate Monitoring v1.2.0

Today we’re announcing the general availability of the Icinga Certificate Monitoring in version 1.2.0. You can find all issues related to this release on our Roadmap. Please also refer to the corresponding upgrade section in the documentation. What’s New? To begin...

Feedback Week & Community Call

Feedback Week & Community Call

It's here! We're starting today! The Icinga Feedback Week: an entire week dedicated to you, as well as honoring those that are dedicated to the community. By asking you questions and getting your answers, we’re gathering your thoughts and feedback, which are very...

Releasing Icinga Web Jira Integration v1.3.0

Releasing Icinga Web Jira Integration v1.3.0

We are happy to announce the release of Icinga Web Jira Integration v1.3.0 today. You can find all issues related to this release on our Roadmap. What's It All About The last state change of an Icinga object is now shown in the Jira issue description. This allows you...

Releasing Icinga Cube v1.3.0

Releasing Icinga Cube v1.3.0

Today we’re announcing the general availability of the Icinga Cube in version 1.3.0. You can find all issues related to this release on our Roadmap. What's it all about The impatient and attentive reader can take a look at the screenshot below first. It shows all the...

Leveraging component variants in Figma for UI Design

Leveraging component variants in Figma for UI Design

Being a Sketch user since it's early days, I found Figma looked really promising, when it finally appeared. While Sketch caught up on most of Figma's features, like collaboration, developer handoff and AutoLayout (at least to some degree), the small feature set...

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