NETGEAR AV Line monitoring With the new NETGEAR AV Line monitoring plugin, you can easily monitor NETGEAR AV Line devices in Icinga 2. This lightweight yet powerful Go-based tool communicates...
New Icinga plugin: NETGEAR monitoring with Go
NETGEAR AV Line monitoring With the new NETGEAR AV Line monitoring plugin, you can easily monitor NETGEAR AV Line devices in Icinga 2. This lightweight yet powerful Go-based tool communicates...
Icinga 2 Meets OpenTelemetry: Native Metrics Export in v2.16
The OTLPMetricsWriter is a new Icinga 2 feature available since v2.16 that exports check plugin performance data as OpenTelemetry-compliant metrics via the OTLP HTTP protocol. With a single configuration object, it connects Icinga 2 to any OTLP-compatible backend like...
Announcing Icinga 2.16.0 and 2.15.3
We are happy to announce the release of two new versions of Icinga 2 today, 2.16.0 and 2.15.3. The first one includes some new features highlighted below, as well as a number of bug fixes and other improvements. The latter one is a small bug fix release that brings...
How to undo Git reset hard?
You just finished a long interactive rebase. You hit enter. Your commit history looks… wrong. There is a bunch of things that could go wrong: messed up an interactive rebase accidentally ran git reset --hard merged the wrong branch rebased onto the wrong base You...
Icinga Partnering in Action: The Shadow-Soft Success Story
Shadow-Soft has been our key partner in North America for more than a decade. During this time, they have built a strong enterprise monitoring practice around Icinga and successfully delivered complex projects across large customer environments. In our newly published...
Icinga Director v1.11.6 Release
We are happy to announce the release of Icinga Director version 1.11.6. This release addresses several important bug fixes and introduces improvements that enhance the overall stability of Icinga Director. Database Schema Upgrade Columns storing large strings for...
Understanding Namespaces in Icinga 2 DSL
Last time, we explored the concept of variable scopes in Icinga 2, which help you manage and organize your DSL configurations effectively. As promised, today we'll dive into another, how shall I say, advanced topic: Namespaces in Icinga 2. What are Namespaces?...
How to Migrate an Icinga 2 Master in a High Availability Setup
Moving an Icinga 2 master to a new machine requires careful preparation, especially in a master-to-master high availability setup. In production environments, such migrations are often part of broader infrastructure changes, platform standardization, or long-term...
Releasing Icinga for Windows v1.14.0 – We have been cooking!
As Bernd mentioned at last year's OSMC, the Icinga for Windows team was heavy working on v1.14.0 which was going to be released in December. Well, we are off a couple of days, but we believe the wait was worth it! Security Update Let's first get the elephant...
Sync Your Users Into Icinga Notifications: Introducing the Contacts/Groups API
If you’ve ever onboarded a teammate at 4:57 PM on a Friday (or offboarded one at 4:58 PM… ), you know the pain: keeping notification contacts and groups up to date is work. With the Icinga Notifications REST API, you can automate that and avoid drift. That’s why I’m...
Releasing Icinga 2 v2.15.2, v2.14.8, v2.13.14 and Icinga for Windows v1.13.4, v1.12.4, v1.11.2
Toady, we are releasing multiple new versions of Icinga 2 and Icinga for Windows, all of them fixing a file permission issue present in all installations on Windows. Impact The following paths were created without setting proper permissions, allowing all local users...
Integrating Prometheus Metrics into Icinga Using check_prometheus
Introduction This article explains how to integrate metrics from Prometheus into Icinga checks using the check_prometheus plugin. There can be multiple reasons why this could be desired: Maybe you have different teams with their own monitoring systems, and you need to...
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