A New Look At Dependencies: Icinga Dependency Views

A New Look At Dependencies: Icinga Dependency Views

We're excited to share that Icinga now offers an improved way to view dependencies. With the releases of Icinga DB Web 1.2.0, Icinga DB 1.4.0, and Icinga 2.15.0 today, any dependencies you've set up in Icinga will now be visually represented. Additionally, we're...

Beyond PHP-FPM: Modern PHP Application Servers

Beyond PHP-FPM: Modern PHP Application Servers

For decades, PHP has powered the web using a simple model: process a request, send a response, then shut down. This model, especially in the form of CGI and PHP-FPM, is easy to understand but increasingly inefficient for modern web demands. The Traditional Model: CGI...

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,...

How to do Agentless Monitoring with check_by_ssh

How to do Agentless Monitoring with check_by_ssh

The fundamentals of Icinga 2 are check plugins. They are being executed and their return value is mapped to either Host or Service objects. Everything else follows on top. These check plugins can be either from the Monitoring Plugins or custom. While their origin does...

Releasing Icinga for Windows v1.13.0

Releasing Icinga for Windows v1.13.0

Today we are happy to announce that we released Icinga for Windows v1.13.0 a couple of days ago. We have already talked about the changes coming to v1.13.0 with the beta blog-post last year in more depth, and will focus only on some core changes here. Improved...

Releasing Icinga 2 v2.14.5

Releasing Icinga 2 v2.14.5

Today, we are announcing the release of Icinga 2 v2.14.5. It fixes a regression that was introduced in v2.14.4 and caused the icinga2 node setup, icinga2 node wizard, and icinga2 pki request commands to fail if a certificate was requested from a node that has to...

Revising Icinga Exchange

Revising Icinga Exchange

Icinga is an open-source project, but it's only become the product we like to use thanks to co-development, brainstorming and suggestions from the community. That's why we created a platform in the past to facilitate the exchange of custom implementations like check...

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