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...
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...
Using ChatGPT + Icinga?
The news have been full of coverage: ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer), the prototype chatbot released by OpenAI in November 2022 seems to hail in a new era of information sourcing, schooling and learning, and interacting with a computer. The service...
Docker: ARMed with PIes
More and more people use machines with the energy-efficient ARM chips. No wonder, after all the Raspberry Pi's processing power evolves which makes it more suitable for a wider range of use cases. For the power users there are the new 80 core servers with Ampere...
Releasing Icinga vSphere® Integration v1.6
We're happy to announce our first release of the year! Version 1.6 of the Icinga vSphere® Integration is out now and waiting to get installed on your Icinga monitoring environment. This release brings performance improvements, ships new metrics to InfluxDB and some...
Icinga DB Web deep custom variable filter
In this blog post I will introduce you to filtering, based on deep custom variables in Icinga DB Web. In Icinga Web 2 monitoring module, it is not possible to filter deep custom variables. Example of deep custom variables involving dictionaries and arrays: vars.dummy...
Releasing Icinga Web v2.9.8, v2.10.4 and v2.11.3
Today we’re announcing the general availability of Icinga Web v2.9.8, v2.10.4 and v2.11.3. These are accompanied by the release of the Icinga PHP Library in version 0.10.1. SQL Injection in Icinga DB Web If you are using Icinga DB Web, please make sure to upgrade...
Icinga DB Web Search Bar – Features & How It Works
With Icinga DB Web you can filter the list views in a very elegant and lovely manner. If you haven't tried this search bar yet, it's time to begin now. Unlike in the monitoring module, where you have to tediously filter the views based on clicking through all the...
Updates for Icinga Web Graphite and GenericTTS Integrations
Today we’re announcing the general availability of Icinga Web GenericTTS Integration v2.1.0 and Icinga Web Graphite Integration v1.2.2. What's New Both releases are mainly defined by several maintenance tasks. But of course, we wouldn't announce them on the blog...
Less is more … or more is more? Decide for yourself with Icinga DB Web list view modes
With Icinga DB Web you can now customise Icinga Web's list views to your needs. While in one scenario you might be more interested to see as many objects as possible at a glance, in another scenario detail attributes of only a few objects will be more important to...
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