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...
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...
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...
Icinga Notifications v0.2.0 Release
Some of you might have already heard about this at OSMC, or you may have received a release notification from GitHub already: our Icinga Notifications project made a step forward and we are happy to announce that version 0.2.0 is now available for you to try out. It...
Introduction to (Performance) Monitoring Metrics
To ensure the reliability and stability of your services, it's essential to understand the overall health of your infrastructure and systems. That variety of information from your systems helps you to get a proper context during your root cause investigation and react...
Why you need network monitoring?
Network monitoring is a continuous analysis of a network to detect and correct any performance issues. Network monitoring involves collecting network statistics to determine the quality of services offered by the network. With tools like Icinga, it's possible to...
Replay Log in Distributed Icinga Environments
An essential part of a distributed monitoring environment with Icinga that includes master, satellite and agent nodes is the replay log functionality. The replay log is a built-in mechanism to ensure nodes in a distributed setup keep the same history e.g. check...
Introducing Icinga Module for vSphere – Releasing version 1.2
One of the pillars of Icinga is integrations. With it's open APIs and various extensions, Icinga is capable of integrating seamlessly into your existing infrastructure. Today I want to give you an introduction to our VMware integration and share some details about the...
Icinga 2 Rocket.Chat notifications. The complete guide
About one year ago the NETWAYS colleagues showed you how to let Icinga 2 notify users through XMPP/Jabber. Now it's time to also cover the somewhat more fancy Rocket.Chat. No Rocket.Chat? No problem! Setting up a test system is pretty easy: Clone this Git repository...
Releasing Icinga DB v1.0-RC2 – Key Updates & Improvements
We are super excited to release the second Release Candidate of Icinga DB! This release comes after many hours, days and months of experimenting, re-thinking and rebuilding our own code and marks a huge step towards a new data backend for Icinga. Why Icinga DB Since...
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...
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...
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...
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