Introduction Nagios has long been a trusted name in IT monitoring. Its plugin-based architecture and long-standing community have made it a stable choice for organizations of all sizes. However, IT...
Nagios Alternatives: Why Icinga Is the Strongest Choice
Introduction Nagios has long been a trusted name in IT monitoring. Its plugin-based architecture and long-standing community have made it a stable choice for organizations of all sizes. However, IT...
Enhanced Icinga 2 Container Images
As some of you might have already noticed, we recently gave our official Icinga 2 container image builds a complete overhaul. These new images are currently available only as snapshot builds but will replace the existing stable images with the next Icinga 2 v2.16.0...
How to check CPU usage on Linux
When your Linux system feels sluggish, one of the first things to investigate is the CPU usage. The CPU (Central Processing Unit) is the brain of your machine, and if it’s overloaded, everything else slows down. In this guide, you’ll learn different ways to Linux...
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!...
How to use path wildcards in Graphite Module
The Graphite module of Icingaweb2 is a great tool for rendering graphs from performance data. The latest version 1.2.0 introduces some bug fixes and new features like dark and light mode support, a lot of new templates, support for path wildcard, etc. The support for...
Parameterizing GitLab CI/CD?
While doing packaging for Icinga, I noticed we have a lot of YAML files describing GitLab pipelines doing very similar jobs. The same build job across different operating systems. That’s wasteful behaviour, which leads to a bigger workload when it comes to modifying...
Releasing Icinga Web v2.10
Today we’re announcing the general availability of Icinga Web v2.10.0. You can find all issues related to this release on our Roadmap. Please make sure to also check the respective upgrading section in the documentation. The Appearance of Dark and Light We have...
Icinga Reviews – Thanks for your great ratings!
We´d like to thank our loyal users and customers for the numerous top reviews of Icinga on Garnter Peer Insights! We´re very happy that you share your experience and satisfaction with other people on this review platform and support us with it. What is Gartner...
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