Introduction Modern IT environments are hybrid, distributed, and constantly growing. To keep them reliable, organizations rely on monitoring that scales, automates, and integrates seamlessly...
Icinga Experience: Insights from Real-World Icinga Deployments Across Industries
Introduction Modern IT environments are hybrid, distributed, and constantly growing. To keep them reliable, organizations rely on monitoring that scales, automates, and integrates seamlessly...
Upgrade your monitoring lists with icon images
Recently I was importing an Icinga configuration for testing purposes. Working with this configuration, I found that there were icon images assigned to the objects. Sadly, those didn’t display, because I didn’t have the icon set installed. So I thought of creating my...
Targeting hosts and services in Icinga 2 API requests
Today, we are going to take a look at the Icinga 2 API and the various ways targets can be specified for different actions, such as querying information or scheduling downtimes. This post focuses on the API request payloads themselves and assumes some familiarity with...
Using Sketch Symbols to boost the UI mock up workflow 🚀
As you may have noticed in one of my last posts, I’m not super averse to using Sketch in my daily workflow. Still, for creating UI mock ups, both high low quality, Sketch is the graphics tool, that I feel most comfortable in, because it enables me to work and ideate...
Icinga integration cases: OpsBridge and ServiceNow
The health of your systems and applications is fundamental for your organization’s infrastructure. Monitoring them indicates if there are any issues that need to be handled before they become serious and affect your customers. This is why companies often use a...
Releasing Icinga for Windows v1.9.0 – An Isolated Experience
Today we are happy to announce that we are releasing Icinga for Windows v1.9.0. This release cycle is the biggest one yet, because we are releasing new versions for everything! This includes Framework Basic Plugins MSSQL Plugins Hyper-V Plugins Cluster Plugins...
Releasing Icinga 2.12.8
Today we are releasing Icinga 2.12.8. It addresses an issue with one of the fixes included in the 2.13.3 and 2.12.7 releases that was applied incorrectly in version 2.12.7. In addition, the bundled dependencies on Windows are updated to the latest available versions....
Building a strong relationship with Red Hat
Working together with other companies is a crucial part of our everyday business. Be it with our customers, business partners or technical partners - a close relationship is key for every future collaboration. Vendors of operating systems play an important role in...
Releasing Icinga 2.13.3 and 2.12.7
Today we are happy to announce the release of Icinga 2.13.3 and 2.12.7. Quite a number of bug fixes accumulated since the last release, including fixes for multiple crashes. Most changes are included in both versions except for the changes related to Icinga DB. These...
Why Monitoring?
We have decided to make some short educational videos about Icinga, and today we will be releasing the first one: Why Monitoring? In these videos we want to explain the Whys and Whats and Hows around Monitoring in a way that is accessible to anyone who is interested....
Introduction of the ansible-collection-icinga
Ansible is a commonly known tool to easily automate deployments in infrastructures, its configuration is based on YAML and is able to scale in big environments. Icinga 2 provides its own secure agent to monitor hosts, high available satellite zones and monitoring...
We are announcing Icinga-X!
Some would say, it's "just" a release. We say it's revolutionary. Never seen before. One of a kind. Exceptional. Why, you wonder? Because we have reinvented monitoring. Please release - it's about time The time has finally come to share the news with you!...
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