Today we are very happy to announce the first beta release of Icinga for Windows with with version 1.13.0.0! This new release provides a huge number of improvements and changes to the Framework as...
Releasing Icinga for Windows v1.13.0-Beta1
Today we are very happy to announce the first beta release of Icinga for Windows with with version 1.13.0.0! This new release provides a huge number of improvements and changes to the Framework as...
Icinga Director: Cloning dictionary row entries for objects from import sources
Over use of dictionaries in monitoring leads to complex and ugly configurations. This in turn makes monitoring complicated. Hence, it is advisable to use it, only if it is needed or in special cases. Even in these cases it is worthwhile to keep it simple. On that...
Icinga Package Repository Key Rotation, 2024
Icinga uses it's own repositories to distribute installation packages for the Icinga software. Today, we're announcing the rotation of the GPG key used to sign our repositories and packages. Currently, our repository is signed with a 1024 bit DSA key. Key rotation is...
Introduction to (Performance) Monitoring Metrics
To ensure the reliability and stability of your services, it's essential to understand the overall health of your infrastructure and systems. That variety of information from your systems helps you to get a proper context during your root cause investigation and react...
How the IT service provider q.beyond thrives with Icinga
We are proud of our many customers and users around the globe that trust Icinga for critical infrastructure monitoring. That´s why we´re now showcasing some of these enterprises with their Success stories. It´s stories from companies or organizations just like yours,...
Why you need network monitoring?
Network monitoring is a continuous analysis of a network to detect and correct any performance issues. Network monitoring involves collecting network statistics to determine the quality of services offered by the network. With tools like Icinga, it's possible to...
Apprenticeship at Icinga
After a really nice interview with Blerim and Eric I decided to start an apprenticeship at Icinga as a developer in September 2021. My apprenticeship experience until now First week was an introduction week where the new apprentices of all departments...
Icinga in the year 2021
The year is coming to an end, this will be our last blogpost for this year too, abd a lot of people are already in the holiday spirit and taking their days off or taking it slow at work. This blogpost is here to give you a little overview over what happened at Icinga...
Replay Log in Distributed Icinga Environments
An essential part of a distributed monitoring environment with Icinga that includes master, satellite and agent nodes is the replay log functionality. The replay log is a built-in mechanism to ensure nodes in a distributed setup keep the same history e.g. check...
Introducing Icinga Module for vSphere – Releasing version 1.2
One of the pillars of Icinga is integrations. With it's open APIs and various extensions, Icinga is capable of integrating seamlessly into your existing infrastructure. Today I want to give you an introduction to our VMware integration and share some details about the...
Current State of Icinga – OSMC 2021
A couple of weeks ago the Open Source Monitoring Conference (OSMC) took place in Nuremberg, Germany. For over a decade now the OSMC provides a platform for monitoring engineers and open source vendors from the field. Icinga is part of this conference since the...
Icinga 2 Rocket.Chat notifications. The complete guide
About one year ago the NETWAYS colleagues showed you how to let Icinga 2 notify users through XMPP/Jabber. Now it's time to also cover the somewhat more fancy Rocket.Chat. No Rocket.Chat? No problem! Setting up a test system is pretty easy: Clone this Git repository...
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