Icinga for Windows without an Icinga 2 agent

Icinga for Windows without an Icinga 2 agent

I've already dropped a hint at this topic in a previous post of mine which reflected the history of Icinga on Windows: Icinga 2.14 will be able to directly speak to the PowerShell daemon REST API without even fork(2) or exec(3) for a subprocess (...). In fact this...

Rule based monitoring with Icinga apply rules

Apply rules simplifies creation of objects like Service, Notification, Dependency, ScheduleDowntime which require object relation. In this blog post we will understand rule based monitoring with Icinga apply rules with examples. Requirement: Icinga 2 and Icinga Web 2...

Releasing Icinga 2.12.1 + 2.11.6

Releasing Icinga 2.12.1 + 2.11.6

Today we are releasing the 2.12.1 and 2.11.6 bugfix releases. These versions fix several crashes, deadlocks and excessive check latencies. They also address several bugs regarding IDO, API, notifications and checks. 2.12.1 Core Fix crashes during config...

Icinga for Windows: MSSQL Plugin Release v1.0.0

Icinga for Windows: MSSQL Plugin Release v1.0.0

Today we are happy to announce that our MSSQL plugins for Icinga for Windows are enhancing the series of Icinga plugins and become released as version 1.0. With this first release we are sharing four plugins to check the current health of MSSQL itself but also...

Setting up Graphite from Scratch on Icinga Web 2

INTRODUCTION In this post, I will show you how easy you can integrate Graphite with Icinga Web 2. I assume you have a Icinga 2 ready with Icinga Web 2 Server running, and you have an additional Linux Server where you will install Graphite. It's recommended to have...

How to set up High-Availability Masters

How to set up High-Availability Masters

When getting started with Icinga 2, a single master instance is often sufficient. However, if your monitoring is business-critical, you’ll need to set up High-Availability Masters to ensure redundancy and stability. This post will guide you through the process of...

Exporting Data from Icinga Web 2

Exporting Data from Icinga Web 2

Today we will talk about exporting data (such as hosts and services) from Icinga Web 2 into various formats.   Exporting From the UI You have probably already seen the drop-down in the upper left corner of a list? If you hover there with your mouse or focus it by...

Introducing the redesigned Check Statistics widget

Introducing the redesigned Check Statistics widget

Those of you, who’ve already tried out the Web Interface for Icinga DB might have noticed the redesigned layout of the check execution statistics section in a monitoring object’s detail view. For all the others: Learn about it in this post. On first hand we wanted to...

Releasing Icinga for Windows v1.2.0

Releasing Icinga for Windows v1.2.0

Today we are proud to announce the official release for Icinga for Windows v1.2.0! This includes v1.2.0 of the Icinga PowerShell Framework and v1.2.0 for the Icinga PowerShell Plugins. We collected plenty of feedback during the past months from our world-wide user...

How to make a data tree out of a rollup SQL query

How to make a data tree out of a rollup SQL query

For our Cube module we use the ROLLUP SQL query to fetch all data from the database and then make a tree data structure out of the given result. This is how we make it a lot easier to render cubes dynamically. What is ROLLUP? and how it works? The SQL ROLLUP is a...

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