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...
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...
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...
Releasing Icinga Web v2.12.2
Today we’re announcing the general availability of Icinga Web v2.12.2. You can find all issues related to this release on our Roadmap. General Fixes Icinga Web has become quite mature over the years. Typically, only new features cause issues and require fixing....
Creating dashboards based on custom filters
In this blogpost, I explain how to create dashlets using custom filters. This way you can create dashlets of your own which you find is necessary. Having dashboards in fact improves monitoring. Dashlets are the different sections under the given dashboard, which are...
Icinga 2 Config Sync: DIY Edition
Two weeks ago, Icinga 2 Config Sync: Behind the Scenes explained how the config sync in Icinga 2 works and how you can look behind the scenes. Today, we will put our knowledge from that post to the test and try to manually replicate the config sync. The most important...
Icinga for Windows – Hyper-V and Cluster Plugins Preview
Today we finally have great news to share for everyone using Icinga to monitor Hyper-V and Windows Cluster environments. For quite some time we've been working on multiple new plugins to provide better monitoring option for Hyper-V and Windows Cluster. The new plugins...
Icinga 2 Config Language (DSL): Advanced Apply Rules
As many users of Icinga don't know what the DSL has to offer, I'm going to show you how to use custom variables and apply for rules to make your life easier when writing configuration for your Icinga environment. Idea In this example we will use custom variables on a...
Icinga 2 Config Sync: Behind the Scenes
Today's blog post dives into the internals of Icinga 2 and will give you an overview how the config synchronization works internally. We will take a small cluster as an example and follow the configuration files through the synchronization mechanism. We assume some...
Sol1 Releases Meerkat – Next Generation Dashboards for Icinga 2
This is a guest blogpost from Dave Kempe from Sol1 Meerkat is a lightweight Go and Javascript Icinga 2 client, that connects to the API and displays the status of various checks using elements, like cards, SVGs or images. If you need new users to see at a...
Releasing Icinga 2.11.8 + 2.12.3: Security and small improvements
Today we are releasing the 2.11.8 and 2.12.3 security & bugfix releases. Both versions contain the same changes. They resolve a security vulnerability with revoked certificates being renewed automatically ignoring the CRL, issues with high load on Windows...
How downtimes are displayed in Icinga DB Web
With the development of Icinga DB we not only rebuilt the core of how Icinga stores and reads monitoring data. With a complete rebuild of the monitoring module we took the chance and refined most aspects of the user interface as well. One aspect that got attention is...
Managing the Icinga Director with Ansible
This is a guest blogpost from Sebastian Gumprich from T-Systems Multimedia Solutions GmbH --- Our company is using Icinga for quite some time now to monitor our whole infrastructure and its customers infrastructure. We deploy many Icinga instances for different teams...
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