Icinga Director is a powerful tool that greatly simplifies the configuration, management, and deployment of monitoring objects in Icinga. It provides a user-friendly interface and automation...
How to Fix Cyclic Inheritance Errors in Icinga Director during Object Configuration
Icinga Director is a powerful tool that greatly simplifies the configuration, management, and deployment of monitoring objects in Icinga. It provides a user-friendly interface and automation...
Ipl-html: Introducing new Form Element Decorators
A Fresh Take on Form Element Decorators Decorators have always been a powerful concept in Icinga Web’s form system — letting developers control how form elements are displayed without hardcoding markup everywhere. But until recently, the decorator system had its...
Icinga Notifications v0.2.0 Release
Some of you might have already heard about this at OSMC, or you may have received a release notification from GitHub already: our Icinga Notifications project made a step forward and we are happy to announce that version 0.2.0 is now available for you to try out. It...
What is SNMP Trap: Real-Time Alerts for Network Monitoring
Why wait for the next poll? An SNMP trap is a real-time alert sent from a device to a monitoring system, without waiting for polling. Ever had a router die silently at 3 AM while your monitoring system was still polling away every 5 minutes? Yeah… not fun. That’s...
Icinga Experience: Insights from Real-World Icinga Deployments Across Industries
Introduction Modern IT environments are hybrid, distributed, and constantly growing. To keep them reliable, organizations rely on monitoring that scales, automates, and integrates seamlessly into existing workflows. We collected 24 Icinga customer stories from...
Upgrade your monitoring lists with icon images
Recently I was importing an Icinga configuration for testing purposes. Working with this configuration, I found that there were icon images assigned to the objects. Sadly, those didn’t display, because I didn’t have the icon set installed. So I thought of creating my...
Targeting hosts and services in Icinga 2 API requests
Today, we are going to take a look at the Icinga 2 API and the various ways targets can be specified for different actions, such as querying information or scheduling downtimes. This post focuses on the API request payloads themselves and assumes some familiarity with...
Extending Unit-Testing on Icinga2
Unit-Testing is important Obviously nobody is disagreeing with this. It's just that during ongoing development and while focusing on features and bug-fixes, testing often falls behind in priority, especially when developers would need to write tests for existing or...
Mastering Service Configuration in Icinga Director
The Icinga Director configuration tool makes it easy to define monitoring objects through the web UI and deploy them to the Icinga 2 API. In this blog post, I’ll walk you through how to configure services in Icinga Director. If you haven't used Icinga Director yet,...
Icinga DB Web Automation
Icinga DB Web Automation allows you to automate monitoring tasks and integrate them directly into your systems and workflows. It is possible to issue command actions without a browser. To do so, a form needs to be submitted by a tool such as cUrl. Every request you...
Endpoint Monitoring with Icinga
Monitoring with Icinga primarily focuses on servers and infrastructure. But there are also the people operating these systems from their workstations and laptops. If a server can be accessed from a machine with an outdated operating system, the patch level of the...
Icinga Quality Time – Our Yearly Teamevent
Last week, it was that time again: our annual Icinga team event took place. Let’s get this out of the way first: yes, that’s the entire Icinga team in the photo. For some, it might be surprising how small we actually are. What you see here is the core team, the people...
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