After NETWAYS has already taken a leading role in the past in maintaining the Ansible Collection Icinga, contributing features and bug fixes, it’s now official: The Ansible Collection Icinga is...
Ownership change of the ansible-collection-icinga to NETWAYS
After NETWAYS has already taken a leading role in the past in maintaining the Ansible Collection Icinga, contributing features and bug fixes, it’s now official: The Ansible Collection Icinga is...
Announcing Icinga for Kubernetes v0.3.0
We’re excited to share that Icinga for Kubernetes v0.3.0 is here! This release is packed with features designed to make monitoring your Kubernetes environments smoother, smarter, and more efficient. Let’s take a closer look at what’s new: Monitor Multiple...
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....
Critical Icinga 2 Security Releases: 2.14.3, 2.13.10, 2.12.11, 2.11.12 (CVE-2024-49369)
Today, we are releasing security updates for Icinga 2 fixing a critical vulnerability that allowed to bypass the certificate validation for JSON-RPC and HTTP API connections. Impact The TLS certificate validation in all Icinga 2 versions starting from 2.4.0 was...
Monitoring domains and DNSSEC properly
First of all, if you own a domain, the following text is for you. In production you obviously want to reduce outages. And an outage of a DNS domain as such takes down all services under that domain, no matter whether your LAMP components are all up and running. At...
Icinga 2 Security Pre-Announcement
The Icinga team would like to announce the forthcoming releases of Icinga 2 versions 2.14.3, 2.13.10, 2.12.11, and 2.11.12. These releases will be made available on Tuesday 12th November 2024 between 13:00 and 15:00 UTC. These Icinga 2 releases will be security-fix...
How to Do Code Review: A Guide for Teams That Care About Quality
We at Icinga / NETWAYS (yes, that’s the order) held an internal event recently. It’s name was Knowledge Days and I got to to talk about how I review code. Now, I will share my knowledge with you! Though, this is specifically how I personally perform reviews. This is...
Tell Us About Your Icinga Experience on Gartner & Capterra!
Hey Icinga users! We’re all about creating the best monitoring solutions for you, and your feedback plays a huge role in that. So, we’re reaching out to invite you to share your experiences on Gartner Peer Insights and Capterra! Special Offer: Share Your Review...
Infrastructure Monitoring Checklist: What you should monitor
You want to monitor your infrastructure? Monitoring is essential to ensure system stability, security and optimal performance. Without proper monitoring, small issues can quickly escalate into major problems and affect productivity and service availability. While...
Icinga Notifications: Incident muting
In a previous article, Julian provided a comprehensive overview of the characteristics and functionality of Incidents in Icinga Notifications. In today's blog, I will explain the concept of Incident muting and its underlying mechanisms. What is Incident Muting? The...
Monitoring Automation with Icinga Director – Simplify Configuration Management
Automating the monitoring process for a huge amount of servers, virtual machines, applications, services, private and public clouds is a main driver for users when they decide to use Icinga. In fact, monitoring large environments is not a new demand for us at all. We...
Icinga Notifications: Custom Channel Plugins
As many of you have already seen in our previous blog posts and our early beta release, we're working on a new, independent notification module. Right now, we only offer three ready-made channels for sending notifications. Today, I want to show you how you can create...
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