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,...
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,...
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...
Code Reviews – How do they work?
We at Icinga / NETWAYS (yes, that’s the order) held an internal event recently. It’s name was Knowledge Days and I got to to talk about how I review code. Now, I will share my knowledge with you! Though, this is specifically how I personally perform reviews. This is...
What to expect from an Icinga Fundamentals training
Let's set the scene: You just started out with Icinga, maybe because you have realised your need for monitoring or you have inherited an environment. Maybe your boss just decided that this is what you are going to do now. So you are now sitting in front of the...
Icinga at OSMC 2021
Icinga is part of the 15th edition of the Open Source Monitoring Conference, which will take place in Nuremberg this winter. The OSMC focuses on IT monitoring and is home to international systems engineers, developers, network engineers, IT managers and the open...
Releasing Icinga for Windows v1.6.1 – Begin the Bug hunt
Last week we happily released Icinga for Windows v1.6.0 and introduced plenty of new features and fixed many bugs While we extensively tested every feature, we shortly received messages from our community and customers, that certain features did not entirely work as...
The best apprenticeship at Icinga
I started my apprenticeship as a developer in September 2018 in another company and then moved to Icinga (the best decision I could have made) and continued the rest of my apprenticeship here. And now I would like to share my experiences as a trainee at Icinga....
Releasing Icinga for Windows v1.6.0 – Easier and more Secure
Today we are happy to announce the release of Icinga for Windows v1.6.0, which we already demonstrated on YouTube last week. This is one of our largest releases so far, as we improve the entire usability, flexibility, and security of Icinga for Windows. The following...
Icinga for Windows v1.6.0 – Preview and Q&A
Today we are happy to announce, that on Thursday 2nd September 2021 at 10:30 CET, we are going to do a livestream on our YouTube Channel for the upcoming release of Icinga for Windows v1.6.0. On this livestream we are going to talk about the changes and new features...
MySQL queries – faster than light (almost)
(The title image from NASA is available under the CC BY 2.0 license.) At the moment I'm working at a tool for migrating Icinga 2 IDO history to Icinga DB. Sure, one could also run IDO and Icinga DB in parallel for one year and then switch to Icinga DB if they only...
Icinga 2.13.1 + 2.12.6 + 2.11.11: Security and Bugfix Releases
Today we're releasing the security and bugfix versions 2.13.1, 2.12.6 and 2.11.11. The main focus of these versions is a security vulnerability in the TLS certificate verification of our metrics writers ElasticsearchWriter, GelfWriter, InfluxdbWriter and...
How to monitor your first Host with Icinga Director
Creating a new Host within the Icinga 2 configuration files is fairly easy. Basically you only have add an object of the type "Host" to a config file and reload Icinga 2. Doing the same with Icinga Director is even easier, you don't even have to bother with terminal...
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