The Icinga Notifications Beta is Here!

The Icinga Notifications Beta is Here!

This release has the version 0.1.0 and is available via our package repositories. Be sure to check the documentation on how to install it. So what is Icinga Notifications actually? It is not possible to explain every single detail now. We will eventually publish...

Icinga for Windows Bugfix Release

Icinga for Windows Bugfix Release

Today we are happy to announce a bunch of bugfix releases for Icinga for Windows, which includes the Icinga PowerShell Framework v1.3.1, Icinga PowerShell Plugins v1.3.1 and Icinga PowerShell MSSQL v1.0.1. Icinga PowerShell Framework v1.3.1 The new release for the...

Interview with Angelika Bang, new Partner Manager at Icinga

Interview with Angelika Bang, new Partner Manager at Icinga

Could you just quickly describe where you come from? Actually, my professional background is in B2C brand and communication research. Over many years I have managed market research studies that helped brand manufacturers like Mercedes-Benz to understand their...

Creating dashboards based on custom filters

Creating dashboards based on custom filters

In this blogpost, I explain how to create dashlets using custom filters. This way you can create dashlets of your own which you find is necessary. Having dashboards in fact improves monitoring. Dashlets are the different sections under the given dashboard, which are...

Icinga 2 Config Sync: DIY Edition

Icinga 2 Config Sync: DIY Edition

Two weeks ago, Icinga 2 Config Sync: Behind the Scenes explained how the config sync in Icinga 2 works and how you can look behind the scenes. Today, we will put our knowledge from that post to the test and try to manually replicate the config sync. The most important...

Icinga for Windows – Hyper-V and Cluster Plugins Preview

Icinga for Windows – Hyper-V and Cluster Plugins Preview

Today we finally have great news to share for everyone using Icinga to monitor Hyper-V and Windows Cluster environments. For quite some time we've been working on multiple new plugins to provide better monitoring option for Hyper-V and Windows Cluster. The new plugins...

Icinga 2 Config Language (DSL): Advanced Apply Rules

Icinga 2 Config Language (DSL): Advanced Apply Rules

As many users of Icinga don't know what the DSL has to offer, I'm going to show you how to use custom variables and apply for rules to make your life easier when writing configuration for your Icinga environment. Idea In this example we will use custom variables on a...

Icinga 2 Config Sync: Behind the Scenes

Icinga 2 Config Sync: Behind the Scenes

Today's blog post dives into the internals of Icinga 2 and will give you an overview how the config synchronization works internally. We will take a small cluster as an example and follow the configuration files through the synchronization mechanism. We assume some...

Your voices have been counted

Your voices have been counted

The year is coming to an end, and it really has blown by in no time. I was introduced as our Development Advocate in March. Our first (slightly chaotic) Virtual Meetup in the same month. Blerim shared updates on our plans with Icinga in May, and talked about last...

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