Releasing Icinga Dependency Views 1.0.1

Releasing Icinga Dependency Views 1.0.1

Today we’re announcing the availability of Icinga Dependency Views v1.0.1. Updated packages are available. In This Release Sometimes it feels like pure irony: you set up beautiful, custom views in Icinga; only to find they don’t show what you expect. Or worse, they...

Releasing Icinga DB Web v1.2.2 and Icinga Web v2.12.5

Releasing Icinga DB Web v1.2.2 and Icinga Web v2.12.5

Today we’re announcing the general availability of Icinga DB Web v1.2.2 and Icinga Web 2.12.5. Icinga DB Web This is a security release. It is recommended to upgrade quickly. You can find all issues related to this release on our roadmap. Access Granted The new...

How To Pick The Correct Metrics For Your Monitoring

How To Pick The Correct Metrics For Your Monitoring

This is a guest blogpost by Adam Sweet from the Icinga Partner Transitiv Technologies. Since this is a longer post, we added a tl;dr at the end. For many, host and application monitoring is an afterthought at the end of a project. Some people don’t think about...

Monitor Microservices Effectively: A Practical Guide

Monitor Microservices Effectively: A Practical Guide

Contents What Is Microservice Monitoring? Why Monitoring Microservices Is Different – and What It Means for You Key Metrics and Signals You Should Track Best Practices for Monitoring Microservices Monitoring Tools for Microservices: What to Look For Microservice...

Releasing Icinga DB v1.3.0

Releasing Icinga DB v1.3.0

Today we are releasing a new version of Icinga DB, version 1.3.0. This is a maintenance release, integrating the container setup directly into Icinga DB. Most importantly, first-class support for configuring Icinga DB completely via environment variables has been...

Icinga 2 Insights With Event Streams

Icinga 2 Insights With Event Streams

There are many ways to interact with the data that Icinga 2 collects, processes, and produces. The most common is probably Icinga Web, which displays checks in all the colors of a traffic light. Icinga 2 also comes with several metrics or performance data writers. But...

Turns any command into a plugin: check_rungrep

Turns any command into a plugin: check_rungrep

Imagine you have one more special thing to monitor. While our Icinga 2 can observe infrastructure of almost any size, it still needs a plugin for each kind of check. Unfortunately not every command meets the monitoring plugin API: exit code 0-3 (ok, warning, critical,...

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