Monitoring domains and DNSSEC properly

Monitoring domains and DNSSEC properly

First of all, if you own a domain, the following text is for you. In production you obviously want to reduce outages. And an outage of a DNS domain as such takes down all services under that domain, no matter whether your LAMP components are all up and running. At...

Icinga 2 Security Pre-Announcement

Icinga 2 Security Pre-Announcement

The Icinga team would like to announce the forthcoming releases of Icinga 2 versions 2.14.3, 2.13.10, 2.12.11, and 2.11.12. These releases will be made available on Tuesday 12th November 2024 between 13:00 and 15:00 UTC. These Icinga 2 releases will be security-fix...

Icinga for Windows Releasing v1.7.1 – Doh!

Icinga for Windows Releasing v1.7.1 – Doh!

On November 9th, we happily launched Icinga for Windows 1.7.0 and mentioned all the new things within our release blog-post. With this version, we also included a fix for the repository hash calculator, ensuring that always the correct hash was used for validating the...

Icinga DB Housekeeping

Icinga DB Housekeeping

Introduction We all know that the history data is important in monitoring. But this history data becomes obsolete over time and those records become garbage which would only fill up space. So it is important to remove obsolete history records to free up space. We call...

A snapshot of my daily work

A snapshot of my daily work

Today I show you a snapshot of my daily work. It is especially interesting this time, because it's a not-so simple problem to solve. It's not difficult per se, but involves quite some understanding of the Icinga Web 2 framework and how it communicates with the web...

Icinga Customer Story: Deutsche Telekom IT

Icinga Customer Story: Deutsche Telekom IT

We are proud of our many customers and users around the globe that trust Icinga for critical IT 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...

Reliable Alerting with Icinga and SIGNL4

Reliable Alerting with Icinga and SIGNL4

You’ve probably been in this situation before – you’re using Icinga to monitor your infrastructure and Icinga detects a critical issue but nobody notices it. It might be an urgent maintenance request, an unexpected breakdown, or a service quality issue. But your...

Polishing the Icinga DB Web User Interface

Polishing the Icinga DB Web User Interface

When redesigning the new Icinga DB Web interface elements we already started establishing consistent design elements. This is even more supported by developing the Icinga PHP Library (IPL) from the ground up. IPL makes developing reusable widgets a lot easier for...

How to monitor a web server running NGINX|httpd

How to monitor a web server running NGINX|httpd

Web servers are software services that store resources for a website and then makes them available over the World Wide Web. These stored resources can be text, images, video and application data. Computers that are interfaced with the server mostly web browsers...

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