Today, we are releasing security updates for Icinga 2 fixing a critical vulnerability that allowed to bypass the certificate validation for JSON-RPC and HTTP API connections. Impact The TLS...

Critical Icinga 2 Security Releases: 2.14.3, 2.13.10, 2.12.11, 2.11.12 (CVE-2024-49369)
Today, we are releasing security updates for Icinga 2 fixing a critical vulnerability that allowed to bypass the certificate validation for JSON-RPC and HTTP API connections. Impact The TLS...

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
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!
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
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
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
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...
Installing Additional Modules in the Icinga Web 2 Docker Container
The Docker images we provide for both Icinga 2 and Icinga Web 2 already contain quite a number of modules. For example, the Icinga Web 2 image contains all the Web modules developed by us. But one of the main benefits of Icinga is extensibility, so you might want to...
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...
Icinga for Windows Releasing v1.7.0 – Start your contribution
Today we are happy to announce, that Icinga for Windows v1.7.0 has been released! While this release includes lots of bugfixes for the Framework itself including the basic plugins, our main goal was to increase usability and make access for developers a lot easier....
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
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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