Today, we are announcing the availability of Icinga 2 v2.16.4. This release contains a number of fixes for various smaller but annoying bugs, including one regression regarding API authentication...
Releasing Icinga 2 v2.16.4
Today, we are announcing the availability of Icinga 2 v2.16.4. This release contains a number of fixes for various smaller but annoying bugs, including one regression regarding API authentication...
Monitoring Docker Containers with Icinga
A container reporting "up" tells you the process is running, not that the workload is healthy - but that caveat is true of any service, on a container or a bare server. What makes containers their own monitoring problem is the layer around the process: per-container...
I tried to build a design system with Figma and Claude from Scratch
Like many, I’ve been experimenting with Claude recently and tried to explore not only its capabilities, but of course also its limitations. The illusion that I could assign it a task and the AI tool would easily execute the work vanished quickly and I experienced...
Using ChatGPT + Icinga?
The news have been full of coverage: ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer), the prototype chatbot released by OpenAI in November 2022 seems to hail in a new era of information sourcing, schooling and learning, and interacting with a computer. The service...
Docker: ARMed with PIes
More and more people use machines with the energy-efficient ARM chips. No wonder, after all the Raspberry Pi's processing power evolves which makes it more suitable for a wider range of use cases. For the power users there are the new 80 core servers with Ampere...
Releasing Icinga vSphere® Integration v1.6
We're happy to announce our first release of the year! Version 1.6 of the Icinga vSphere® Integration is out now and waiting to get installed on your Icinga monitoring environment. This release brings performance improvements, ships new metrics to InfluxDB and some...
Icinga DB Web deep custom variable filter
In this blog post I will introduce you to filtering, based on deep custom variables in Icinga DB Web. In Icinga Web 2 monitoring module, it is not possible to filter deep custom variables. Example of deep custom variables involving dictionaries and arrays: vars.dummy...
Releasing Icinga Web v2.9.8, v2.10.4 and v2.11.3
Today we’re announcing the general availability of Icinga Web v2.9.8, v2.10.4 and v2.11.3. These are accompanied by the release of the Icinga PHP Library in version 0.10.1. SQL Injection in Icinga DB Web If you are using Icinga DB Web, please make sure to upgrade...
Icinga DB Web Search Bar – Features & How It Works
With Icinga DB Web you can filter the list views in a very elegant and lovely manner. If you haven't tried this search bar yet, it's time to begin now. Unlike in the monitoring module, where you have to tediously filter the views based on clicking through all the...
Updates for Icinga Web Graphite and GenericTTS Integrations
Today we’re announcing the general availability of Icinga Web GenericTTS Integration v2.1.0 and Icinga Web Graphite Integration v1.2.2. What's New Both releases are mainly defined by several maintenance tasks. But of course, we wouldn't announce them on the blog...
Less is more … or more is more? Decide for yourself with Icinga DB Web list view modes
With Icinga DB Web you can now customise Icinga Web's list views to your needs. While in one scenario you might be more interested to see as many objects as possible at a glance, in another scenario detail attributes of only a few objects will be more important to...
Authenticating Icinga 2 API Users with TLS Client Certificates
When interacting with the Icinga 2 API, the client is commonly authenticated using a password provided via HTTP basic auth. Icinga 2 also supports a second authentication mechanism: TLS client certificates. This is a feature of TLS that also allows the client to send...











