This is a guest blogpost from Finn Steglich. As of Icinga 2 versions 2.14.3, 2.13.10, 2.12.11, and 2.11.12 from 12th November 2024, a critical security issue affecting Icinga 2 Masters, Satellites...
Uncovering a Client Certificate Verification Bypass in Icinga
This is a guest blogpost from Finn Steglich. As of Icinga 2 versions 2.14.3, 2.13.10, 2.12.11, and 2.11.12 from 12th November 2024, a critical security issue affecting Icinga 2 Masters, Satellites...
Releasing Icinga Director v1.11.2
We are pleased to announce the release of Icinga Director version 1.11.2, which addresses several important bug fixes to enhance the stability across different areas of the Director. UI Enhancements This update resolves several issues, including errors when changing...
Getting Started with Icinga: Your All-in-One Guide to Mastering Monitoring
If you’re looking for a comprehensive guide to getting started with Icinga, you’re in the right place. Whether you're new to Icinga or a seasoned user who thinks they’ve seen it all, some of these resources could surprise you with a few tricks. Let's dive into the...
Web Access Control Redefined
One of the focuses of version 2.9 of Icinga Web 2 will be on access control. For years on now, Icinga Web 2 had a very simple role based access control (RBAC) implementation: Users can occupy multiple roles Each role provides a set of permissions Each role provides a...
Different Icinga platforms
As Icinga is a Community driven product, we spread the communication with the community over different platforms. All of them serve different purposes, as all of the them have different strengths. Today I want to give you all a little overview over which platforms are...
Revoke certificate of an Icinga endpoint
A Certificate Revocation List (CRL) is a list of certificates that have been revoked by the issuing Certificate Authority (CA) before their scheduled expiration date. Those certificates should no longer be trusted. A client application such as an Icinga Agent can use...
Using the Icinga Web API
Unfortunately, there is little to no documentation for using the Icinga Web API to perform monitoring actions such as scheduling downtimes. But it's a simple thing and I'll give you a quick example of how to do it. Using the Icinga Web API instead of the Icinga API...
Using Thola for monitoring your network devices
This is a guest blogpost by Alexander Biehl from the Thola development team. --- Once upon a time there was a small company in the south west of Germany that used an old check plugin for monitoring its network devices. But as their network got bigger and bigger over...
Docker: You’ve got mail!
So far we’ve chosen base images for our Icinga 2, Icinga Web 2 and Icinga DB Docker images, further reduced the image size and even taken care for security and comfort. Additionally Eric put all the images together via Docker Compose. But there’s still one little...
How to fetch data from Icinga Web
There are multiple ways to interact programatically with Icinga. Last week Henrik demonstrated how to connect to the Icinga 2 API through the Icinga 2 Console. Working with the Icinga 2 API is probably the most obvious way to interact with Icinga. Still, I would like...
How to connect to the Icinga 2 API via the Icinga Console
Today I will show you a couple of small functions you can use with the Icinga Console. Using the Icinga Console can help with scripting in general and provides a quick and easy-to-use way of extracting information from your Icinga environment. We will take a look at...
Interview with Angelika Bang, new Partner Manager at Icinga
Could you just quickly describe where you come from? Actually, my professional background is in B2C brand and communication research. Over many years I have managed market research studies that helped brand manufacturers like Mercedes-Benz to understand their...
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