Icinga DB Web Automation allows you to automate monitoring tasks and integrate them directly into your systems and workflows. It is possible to issue command actions without a browser. To do so, a...
Icinga DB Web Automation
Icinga DB Web Automation allows you to automate monitoring tasks and integrate them directly into your systems and workflows. It is possible to issue command actions without a browser. To do so, a...
Endpoint Monitoring with Icinga
Monitoring with Icinga primarily focuses on servers and infrastructure. But there are also the people operating these systems from their workstations and laptops. If a server can be accessed from a machine with an outdated operating system, the patch level of the...
Icinga Quality Time – Our Yearly Teamevent
Last week, it was that time again: our annual Icinga team event took place. Let’s get this out of the way first: yes, that’s the entire Icinga team in the photo. For some, it might be surprising how small we actually are. What you see here is the core team, the people...
Monitoring the Monitor: How to keep a watch on Icinga 2
The question is (probably) older than monitoring itself: Who monitors the monitor? While Icinga comes with countless options to monitor a wide range of devices and applications, at some point you will ask yourself how you can observe if Icinga itself is having errors....
Icinga experts are here to support you
Icinga is the perfect, powerful monitoring stack that helps you tackle your monitoring challenge. It´s open source and free to use for anybody – be it a private person, a non-profit organization or a commercial company. Why pay for support? However, although...
Creating a Business Process and adding it to Dashboard
In this blogpost I will introduce, how to create a business process from monitored hosts and services and how to add them to dashboards. Business Process module is an interesting module in Icinga Web 2. It allows you to visualise and monitor hierarchical business...
Calculating a state over multiple services
These days many setups have a lot of redundancy and you may not want to send notifications during the night, just because one of multiple http servers has a problem. This blog post will show you how to setup a single service with a state combining multiple other...
Debugging Filters and Apply Rules using the Script Debugger
Have you ever been in a situation where something in your Icinga configuration did not work as expected and you ended up doing small changes and reloading Icinga over and over again? This can be especially tricky with apply rules and filters if they don't match the...
Web Access Control Redefined
One of the focuses of version 2.9 of Icinga Web 2 will be on access control. For years on now, Icinga Web 2 had a very simple role based access control (RBAC) implementation: Users can occupy multiple roles Each role provides a set of permissions Each role provides a...
Different Icinga platforms
As Icinga is a Community driven product, we spread the communication with the community over different platforms. All of them serve different purposes, as all of the them have different strengths. Today I want to give you all a little overview over which platforms are...
Revoke certificate of an Icinga endpoint
A Certificate Revocation List (CRL) is a list of certificates that have been revoked by the issuing Certificate Authority (CA) before their scheduled expiration date. Those certificates should no longer be trusted. A client application such as an Icinga Agent can use...
Using the Icinga Web API
Unfortunately, there is little to no documentation for using the Icinga Web API to perform monitoring actions such as scheduling downtimes. But it's a simple thing and I'll give you a quick example of how to do it. Using the Icinga Web API instead of the Icinga API...
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