It’s Pride Month: a time to celebrate the LGBTQIA+ community, reflect on the progress we’ve made, and acknowledge the challenges we still face. Around the world, queer people are once again being...
We’re Still Flying the Rainbow Flag, Even When It’s Hard
It’s Pride Month: a time to celebrate the LGBTQIA+ community, reflect on the progress we’ve made, and acknowledge the challenges we still face. Around the world, queer people are once again being...
A New Look At Dependencies: Icinga Dependency Views
We're excited to share that Icinga now offers an improved way to view dependencies. With the releases of Icinga DB Web 1.2.0, Icinga DB 1.4.0, and Icinga 2.15.0 today, any dependencies you've set up in Icinga will now be visually represented. Additionally, we're...
Beyond PHP-FPM: Modern PHP Application Servers
For decades, PHP has powered the web using a simple model: process a request, send a response, then shut down. This model, especially in the form of CGI and PHP-FPM, is easy to understand but increasingly inefficient for modern web demands. The Traditional Model: CGI...
Icinga for Windows v1.11.0 – It’s finally here!
Today we are happy to announce that after many delays, re-writes, pushbacks and restructuring Icinga for Windows v1.11.0 is finally released! First, we would like to thank everyone for contributing feedback over the past month to track down issues and testing new...
How to resolve circular dependency in Icinga2
We recently announced the general availability of Icinga 2.14, which most of you might have noticed, and with that in mind, I'd like to show you how you can easily troubleshoot and eliminate some of the dependencies headaches known as the dependency cycle. What does...
CSS doesn’t need to be ugly
Ever looked at some CSS and your first instinct was to close the editor and never look at it again? I did. Though, I don't have the luxury to close the editor in such a case, as is probably often the case for others as well. Code grows with time and so do bad...
Releasing Icinga 2.14 and 2.13.8
We are happy to announce the release of Icinga 2.14.0 and 2.13.8 today. Especially the 2.14.0 release comes with a lot of fixes and improvements and this blog post will highlight the most important ones. There are some breaking changes in 2.14.0, so please make sure...
How useful is the Figma’s new variables feature?
When the news appeared that there would be a new Variables feature released for Figma, it immediately seemed huge to me. I’ve just started building the Icinga Web Design System in Figma. One of the biggest struggles was to deal with our light/dark theme modes. I...
Icinga Kubernetes Helm Charts
Daniel Bodky and Markus Opolka from our partner NETWAYS developed the very first Icinga Kubernetes Helm Charts and released it in an alpha version. If you have ever wanted to deploy an entire Icinga stack in your Kubernetes cluster, now is your chance. I also want to...
Recap of Icinga Camp Berlin 2023
It was a nice sunny morning, the weather really with us, for our Icinga Camp Berlin this year. When I peeked outside after helping with the setup, people were already mingling, getting ready to check in and get their first coffee to prepare for the day ahead. Bernd...
IPL: How to use ipl-validator
In my last blogpost I explained how our ipl-html lib works and how to use it. With the help of ipl-html it is possible to add forms. Usually we want to validate the data of the form before submitting it and display messages if the validation fails. For this purpose,...
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...
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