Running Icinga 2 in a rootless Podman container is pretty straightforward, it works just the same as on Docker, so all the examples on our Docker Hub page work as expected. For example this one to...
Using writable bind mounts with Icinga 2 in rootless Podman
Running Icinga 2 in a rootless Podman container is pretty straightforward, it works just the same as on Docker, so all the examples on our Docker Hub page work as expected. For example this one to...
Icinga Web SSO walkthrough
The ability to log into all corporate applications with one username and password is pretty convenient, even compared to a password manager. As a benefit, the IT department can centrally enforce one desired two-factor auth mechanism. Now we, Icinga, also provide a...
Consulting on Site: An Icinga Engagement near Basel
Not all monitoring work happens remotely. Some of it means packing a bag, taking the train across three countries, and sitting down with the customer's team. This is a report from a week-long Icinga consulting engagement for a customer near Basel, covering the journey...
Get Valid TLS Certificates for Icinga Web Despite a Firewall
Lots of big companies lock down their IT infrastructure in the internal network, sometimes they even use only locally mirrored repositories. I totally understand this, especially since our CVE-2024-49369. Nowadays, when LLMs find security holes even in OpenBSD, you...
New Icinga plugin: NETGEAR monitoring with Go
NETGEAR AV Line monitoring With the new NETGEAR AV Line monitoring plugin, you can easily monitor NETGEAR AV Line devices in Icinga 2. This lightweight yet powerful Go-based tool communicates directly with the devices’ API and provides clear status values – including...
Icinga 2 Meets OpenTelemetry: Native Metrics Export in v2.16
The OTLPMetricsWriter is a new Icinga 2 feature available since v2.16 that exports check plugin performance data as OpenTelemetry-compliant metrics via the OTLP HTTP protocol. With a single configuration object, it connects Icinga 2 to any OTLP-compatible backend like...
Announcing Icinga 2.16.0 and 2.15.3
We are happy to announce the release of two new versions of Icinga 2 today, 2.16.0 and 2.15.3. The first one includes some new features highlighted below, as well as a number of bug fixes and other improvements. The latter one is a small bug fix release that brings...
Modernizing a legacy CMake build-system
CMake tends to have a bad reputation for being to complex and convoluted, but often that notion stems from very old versions of CMake. Sure, CMake is a Turing-complete scripting language, but that is really needed for an ecosystem as complex as that of C and C++. And...
XSS Vulnerability in Icinga PHP Library
Today we announce a security update for Icinga PHP Library. It solves a severe cross-site scripting attack vulnerability and affects multiple Icinga products at once. It has been published as GHSA-55wf-5m3q-6jjf. Installing the update v0.19.2 as soon as possible is...
Icinga as Open-Source MSP Monitoring Software: Multi-Tenant Monitoring for IT Service Providers
Icinga is an open-source MSP monitoring software used by managed service providers to monitor multi-tenant client environments at scale. It covers the infrastructure layer that RMM tools don't reach: network devices, custom service checks, SLA reporting, and deep...
Four Modern PHP Features That Show How Far the Language Has Come
PHP has evolved over the years and has become a lot reliable, faster and refined. And with the release of PHP 8, which contained many features (named arguments, union types, attributes, constructor property promotion, match expressions, the null safe operator (?->)...
Icinga Web v2.13 and IPL: PHP 8.5 Support & Module Updates Release
This is not just a version bump. Raising the PHP floor allowed us to modernize the IPL codebase in ways that were not possible before: strict type declarations throughout, and a cleaner, more predictable API surface. We are also introducing two new packages:...
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