How to do Agentless Monitoring with check_by_ssh

How to do Agentless Monitoring with check_by_ssh

The fundamentals of Icinga 2 are check plugins. They are being executed and their return value is mapped to either Host or Service objects. Everything else follows on top. These check plugins can be either from the Monitoring Plugins or custom. While their origin does...

Releasing Icinga DB v1.0-RC2 – Key Updates & Improvements

Releasing Icinga DB v1.0-RC2 – Key Updates & Improvements

We are super excited to release the second Release Candidate of Icinga DB! This release comes after many hours, days and months of experimenting, re-thinking and rebuilding our own code and marks a huge step towards a new data backend for Icinga. Why Icinga DB Since...

Icinga DB Housekeeping

Icinga DB Housekeeping

Introduction We all know that the history data is important in monitoring. But this history data becomes obsolete over time and those records become garbage which would only fill up space. So it is important to remove obsolete history records to free up space. We call...

Polishing the Icinga DB Web User Interface

Polishing the Icinga DB Web User Interface

When redesigning the new Icinga DB Web interface elements we already started establishing consistent design elements. This is even more supported by developing the Icinga PHP Library (IPL) from the ground up. IPL makes developing reusable widgets a lot easier for...

How to monitor a web server running NGINX|httpd

How to monitor a web server running NGINX|httpd

Web servers are software services that store resources for a website and then makes them available over the World Wide Web. These stored resources can be text, images, video and application data. Computers that are interfaced with the server mostly web browsers...

What to expect from an Icinga Fundamentals training

What to expect from an Icinga Fundamentals training

Let's set the scene: You just started out with Icinga, maybe because you have realised your need for monitoring or you have inherited an environment. Maybe your boss just decided that this is what you are going to do now. So you are now sitting in front of the...

MySQL queries – faster than light (almost)

MySQL queries – faster than light (almost)

(The title image from NASA is available under the CC BY 2.0 license.) At the moment I'm working at a tool for migrating Icinga 2 IDO history to Icinga DB. Sure, one could also run IDO and Icinga DB in parallel for one year and then switch to Icinga DB if they only...

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