As Bernd mentioned at last year's OSMC, the Icinga for Windows team was heavy working on v1.14.0 which was going to be released in December. Well, we are off a couple of days, but we believe the...
Releasing Icinga for Windows v1.14.0 – We have been cooking!
As Bernd mentioned at last year's OSMC, the Icinga for Windows team was heavy working on v1.14.0 which was going to be released in December. Well, we are off a couple of days, but we believe the...
Sync Your Users Into Icinga Notifications: Introducing the Contacts/Groups API
If you’ve ever onboarded a teammate at 4:57 PM on a Friday (or offboarded one at 4:58 PM… ), you know the pain: keeping notification contacts and groups up to date is work. With the Icinga Notifications REST API, you can automate that and avoid drift. That’s why I’m...
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 created without setting proper permissions, allowing all local users...
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...
List View in Icinga DB Web
Similar, to the monitoring module in Icinga Web, Icinga DB Web also provides list views for hosts and services to provide the most common columns to reduce the backend query load. The columns URL parameter is used to provide the columns that are needed for the list...
Icinga for Windows v1.10.0 – The Next Level
After some drawbacks we are very happy today to finally release Icinga for Windows v1.10.0! The past weeks we have spent a lot of time to polish this release, test many different aspects and optimize the user experience in general. Please make sure to read the...
Use actual data in Sketch for more realistic mockups
This time I want to show a feature that's not obvious at first sight, but can save a lot of time, when you're intending to create UI mockups with realistic data. Why it is important to test UI concepts with realistic data at a certain point In my opinion it's totally...
Releasing Icinga 2.13.5
Today we are releasing Icinga 2.13.5. It addresses issues with 2.13.x-only changes such as logging startup messages to Windows event log or Icinga DB. In addition, the bundled dependencies on Windows are updated to the latest available versions. Changes Ensure...
More reliable host and service history with Icinga DB
Today's blog post will give an insight into one of the many things that improved with Icinga DB: how host and service history is written to the database, both by the old IDO feature, as well as what has changed with Icinga DB and how this leads to more reliable...
Icinga Camp Berlin 2022
Our first Icinga Camp after 2019 now took place almost 3 years later and was an amazing event that took us right back in time. We tried to create an atmosphere where we could share our current state of things, introduce new features and have people who work with...
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