Four years ago I joined Icinga. Back then, everything was new to me: a new team, a new industry, and an exciting challenge. Today, four years later, I look back on an incredible, inspiring journey –...
Women in Tech: My Journey at Icinga
Four years ago I joined Icinga. Back then, everything was new to me: a new team, a new industry, and an exciting challenge. Today, four years later, I look back on an incredible, inspiring journey –...
Understanding Observability, Monitoring, and Telemetry Differences
Defining the Terms: Observability, Monitoring, and Telemetry In the realm of IT infrastructure, understanding observability, monitoring, and telemetry is crucial. Each plays a distinct role in system management. While they interconnect, their specific functions...
Monitoring the Monitoring: Demystifying the Icinga DB Health Check
In this post we will take a look at the icingadb check command built into Icinga 2 for monitoring the health of Icinga DB. If you have already configured it, this blog post will give you some insights on what it actually checks, otherwise, it showcases what useful...
Authenticating Icinga 2 API Users with TLS Client Certificates
When interacting with the Icinga 2 API, the client is commonly authenticated using a password provided via HTTP basic auth. Icinga 2 also supports a second authentication mechanism: TLS client certificates. This is a feature of TLS that also allows the client to send...
New Releases for Icinga 2, Icinga Web and Icinga DB Web available
We've been working on a bunch of minor releases lately. Today we're happy to announce new versions for Icinga 2, Icinga Web and the Icinga DB Web module. Check out the details below. Icinga 2 v2.13.6 Today we are releasing Icinga 2.13.6. The main focus is improved...
Icinga 2 Advanced Training – Monitoring redesigned
If you have some experience with Icinga 2 or you already visited the Icinga 2 Fundamentals training you are in the right place. I am about to give you a small introduction into Icinga 2 Advanced training, since I recently visited this training myself. I already...
Scheduling Tasks in PHP
In the scenario where you want to execute tasks repeatedly at a specific time and have full control over when they are executed and how the results are handled, it makes sense to build this into your application instead of setting up a cron job, for example. I'd like...
Releasing Icinga vSphere® Integration v1.5.0
Our Icinga vSphere® module has reached a new milestone, v1.5.0. It contains some buxfixes and a lot of new features and improvements. For all details, check the full changelog. UI In the v1.5 you might notice a few updates on the UI. A lot of the changes are smaller...
IPL – Icinga PHP Library
A few years ago, we introduced a new, completely independent library. The IPL - Icinga PHP Library, a bundle of Icinga PHP libraries. Since then we are actively working on further development and adding new features. Today I would like to highlight individual parts of...
GitLab CI/CD Job Templates!
Like I’ve mentioned in my last blog post, we use GitLab pipelines for packaging. We have a lot of software, like Icinga, Icingaweb and its various modules, which we want to build across multiple different operating systems. This results in a huge number of jobs and...
Icinga & Apache Guacamole – A Powerful Combination for Remote Access
This is a guest blogpost from Cecilia Gripenberg from RedBridge Integration Magic One of Icinga’s greatest strengths is its ability to integrate with other systems and use those systems’ data to enrich monitoring. It can write time-series data to InfluxDB, Graphite or...
Resolving Git merge conflicts – easily and accurately
Nobody likes resolving merge/rebase/cherry-pick conflicts. I also don't, but I've found a scheme how to reduce the built-in headache. In this post I'm going to share my findings as well as practical examples. Warming up First let's brush up on merge conflicts with...
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