Nagios Alternatives: Why Icinga Is the Strongest Choice

Nagios Alternatives: Why Icinga Is the Strongest Choice

Introduction Nagios has long been a trusted name in IT monitoring. Its plugin-based architecture and long-standing community have made it a stable choice for organizations of all sizes. However, IT infrastructures have changed dramatically in the last decade. With...

Enhanced Icinga 2 Container Images

Enhanced Icinga 2 Container Images

As some of you might have already noticed, we recently gave our official Icinga 2 container image builds a complete overhaul. These new images are currently available only as snapshot builds but will replace the existing stable images with the next Icinga 2 v2.16.0...

Observability vs Monitoring: Enhancing, Not Replacing

Observability vs Monitoring: Enhancing, Not Replacing

In the dynamic world of IT operations, a common misconception has emerged: Observability vs Monitoring is often framed as a battle where one replaces the other. At Icinga, where open-source monitoring is our expertise, we aim to clarify this misunderstanding....

Releasing Icinga for Windows v1.13.3

Releasing Icinga for Windows v1.13.3

Today we are happy to announce that - after a long bugfixing session - we released Icinga for Windows v1.13.3. This release ships with a new PowerShell Framework (v1.13.3) and PowerShell Plugins (v1.13.1). Breaking Change for Scheduled-Task plugin With Icinga for...

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...

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