Introduction: Why Alert Fatigue Hits Sysadmins Sooner or Later If you’ve ever muted your phone during a maintenance window, only to miss a real outage an hour later, you’re not alone. Sysadmins on...
Drowning in Alert Fatigue? How to Regain Control of Your Monitoring
Introduction: Why Alert Fatigue Hits Sysadmins Sooner or Later If you’ve ever muted your phone during a maintenance window, only to miss a real outage an hour later, you’re not alone. Sysadmins on...
How to Fix Cyclic Inheritance Errors in Icinga Director during Object Configuration
Icinga Director is a powerful tool that greatly simplifies the configuration, management, and deployment of monitoring objects in Icinga. It provides a user-friendly interface and automation features that make complex setups easier to maintain. Occasionally, though,...
Ipl-html: Introducing new Form Element Decorators
A Fresh Take on Form Element Decorators Decorators have always been a powerful concept in Icinga Web’s form system — letting developers control how form elements are displayed without hardcoding markup everywhere. But until recently, the decorator system had its...
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...
The Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins Collection
This is a guest blogpost from Linuxfabrik At Linuxfabrik we have been developing a collection of currently 130+ plugins for Icinga, Nagios and other compatible monitoring systems for more than two years now. Each of these plugins is a specialized command line tool...
Icinga 2 IRC notifications. The complete guide
A few months ago I wrote about sending notifications to Rocket.Chat. While that messaging tool is quite powerful, one may also prefer to keep it simple. So let's also address the good old IRC. No test system? No problem! Setting up an IRC daemon is pretty easy:...
Adapting Icinga Web modules To Icinga DB
Icinga DB web has a better layout and is more user friendly. This makes monitoring more simple. Hence it would be nice if we could adapt all the Icinga modules to Icinga DB. In this blogpost, I will discuss how to adapt Icinga Web modules to Icinga DB. To do this,...
Automatically Testing Icinga DB
In today's blog post, I want to present something related to Icinga DB that you most likely will not come in touch with as a regular user: some of the test cases we built for Icinga DB and the tooling created to support them. The Challenge Even though Icinga DB is a...
Announcing official Icinga packages for RHEL, Amazon Linux 2 and SLES
We are pleased to announce the general availability of Icinga installation packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Amazon Linux 2 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. We extend the list of supported operating systems to give you even more options where you can run Icinga....
Icinga Web – Not just Black and White
Most of you know that Icinga Web can be adjusted by themes. Some of you also have made some! Icinga Web itself comes with several themes since the early days. Now with the next upcoming major update v2.10 we'll take themes to their next evolution. But since we've...
Releasing Icinga for Windows v1.8.0 – The Power of Rework
Today we are happy to announce that after month of work we finally can release Icinga for Windows v1.8.0. As discussed in our live Icinga for Windows Q&A on our YouTube-Channel, we spent lots of time resolving issues reported by our community and customers and in...
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