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...
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...
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 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
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
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...
How Tenacta Group uses Icinga
This is a blogpost from Livio Daina from Tenacta Group Tenacta Group is an Italian company with a portfolio of worldwide leading brands that share the same mission: to develop designs and technological innovations that will improve people's quality of life. We have...
The Tale of a Single Lock in Icinga 2
To speed up startup and reload times of Icinga 2, we have already put a lot of effort into improving the configuration load performance and still continue to do so for the next major release. In this blog post, I will share the story of one particular issue we found,...
Why is Icinga called Icinga?
It's the year 2009, a nice weekend in late spring and a small group of monitoring enthusiasts comes together to discuss how to move forward with the idea of forking Nagios. Plans were made to make it faster, easier, more scalable, and simply better. Of course, such a...
IPL: How to use ipl-html
In my previous blogpost I briefly explained the IPL and the tasks that these individual libs can perform. Today I want to explain how our ipl-html lib works and how to use it. This library helps you write HTML in a very simple and safe way. You don't need text...
Security releases: Icinga 2.13.7 and 2.12.10
Recently the OpenSSL project released OpenSSL v1.1.1t and advised its users to upgrade due to several CVEs that release has fixed. We're not certified security experts, but we know that a redundant update is better than a missing update. While on Linux the OpenSSL...
Why Open Source Cloud Monitoring?
When operating a larger business or project, one problem comes quickly apparent: How can I know that my servers and their applications are up and the performance is good across the board? The answer is, of course, monitoring software. But why someone should consider...
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