Toady, we are releasing multiple new versions of Icinga 2 and Icinga for Windows, all of them fixing a file permission issue present in all installations on Windows. Impact The following paths were...
Releasing Icinga 2 v2.15.2, v2.14.8, v2.13.14 and Icinga for Windows v1.13.4, v1.12.4, v1.11.2
Toady, we are releasing multiple new versions of Icinga 2 and Icinga for Windows, all of them fixing a file permission issue present in all installations on Windows. Impact The following paths were...
Integrating Prometheus Metrics into Icinga Using check_prometheus
Introduction This article explains how to integrate metrics from Prometheus into Icinga checks using the check_prometheus plugin. There can be multiple reasons why this could be desired: Maybe you have different teams with their own monitoring systems, and you need to...
Testing Icinga in a Homelab Setup With Nextcloud
If you want to get started with Icinga but don’t have a data center lying around, no worries. Icinga is a lightweight monitoring tool that works for both large infrastructures and small home labs. When I first explored Icinga during my first year as an apprentice, it...
How the current OpenSSL vulnerabilities affect Icinga
Recently, OpenSSL published an advisory about two vulnerabilities, X.509 Email Address 4-byte Buffer Overflow (CVE-2022-3602) and X.509 Email Address Variable Length Buffer Overflow (CVE-2022-3786). Depending on the operating system you are using, this may affect...
Icinga 2 Advanced Training – Monitoring redesigned
If you have some experience with Icinga 2 or you already visited the Icinga 2 Fundamentals training you are in the right place. I am about to give you a small introduction into Icinga 2 Advanced training, since I recently visited this training myself. I already...
How We Schedule Tasks in PHP at Icinga – A Look Behind the Scenes
When building software like Icinga, some of the most critical operations happen silently in the background. Recurring tasks whether for collecting data, renewing certificates, or generating reports are essential to delivering the functionality our users rely on every...
Releasing Icinga vSphere® Integration v1.5.0
Our Icinga vSphere® module has reached a new milestone, v1.5.0. It contains some buxfixes and a lot of new features and improvements. For all details, check the full changelog. UI In the v1.5 you might notice a few updates on the UI. A lot of the changes are smaller...
IPL – Icinga PHP Library
A few years ago, we introduced a new, completely independent library. The IPL - Icinga PHP Library, a bundle of Icinga PHP libraries. Since then we are actively working on further development and adding new features. Today I would like to highlight individual parts of...
GitLab CI/CD Job Templates!
Like I’ve mentioned in my last blog post, we use GitLab pipelines for packaging. We have a lot of software, like Icinga, Icingaweb and its various modules, which we want to build across multiple different operating systems. This results in a huge number of jobs and...
Icinga & Apache Guacamole – A Powerful Combination for Remote Access
This is a guest blogpost from Cecilia Gripenberg from RedBridge Integration Magic One of Icinga’s greatest strengths is its ability to integrate with other systems and use those systems’ data to enrich monitoring. It can write time-series data to InfluxDB, Graphite or...
Resolving Git merge conflicts – easily and accurately
Nobody likes resolving merge/rebase/cherry-pick conflicts. I also don't, but I've found a scheme how to reduce the built-in headache. In this post I'm going to share my findings as well as practical examples. Warming up First let's brush up on merge conflicts with...
How to Create Custom-Branded Icinga Reports – Quick Tip
With Icinga Reporting you can create custom SLA reports for hosts and services that are monitored with Icinga. The module for Icinga Web fetches existing data and takes planned downtimes into account. You can filter for certain hosts and services as well as set custom...
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