If you’re reading this, chances are high you’re looking for a PRTG alternative and considering switching from Paessler PRTG to Icinga. Maybe it’s the rising costs of PRTG, or maybe you want a...
Looking for a PRTG Alternative? Here’s Why You Should Consider Icinga
If you’re reading this, chances are high you’re looking for a PRTG alternative and considering switching from Paessler PRTG to Icinga. Maybe it’s the rising costs of PRTG, or maybe you want a...
Let’s Encrypt Stops Expiration Emails – How to Ensure Your Certificates Stay Valid with SSL Certificate Monitoring
No More Expiration Emails – What Now SSL/TLS certificates are critical for secure communication, and keeping track of their expiration is essential. Until now, Let’s Encrypt has sent email notifications when certificates were about to expire. However, as of June 2025,...
Turns any command into a plugin: check_rungrep
Imagine you have one more special thing to monitor. While our Icinga 2 can observe infrastructure of almost any size, it still needs a plugin for each kind of check. Unfortunately not every command meets the monitoring plugin API: exit code 0-3 (ok, warning, critical,...
Icinga Notifications: Incidents, Escalations, and Event Rules – How to Manage Alerts Effectively
Following the Icinga Notifications beta announcement, we already had a more general post on how to get started and one going into the details of schedules. This week's blog post is a follow up in this series and will describe incidents, escalations, and event rules in...
Multi Element Selection in Icinga DB Web
From time to time we want to bring not so widely known features of Icinga into spotlight. In this effort it’s a not so obvious feature, that was available in the monitoring module of Icinga Web 2 at some point already. It has also been available in Icinga DB Web since...
Releasing Icinga for Windows v1.13.0-Beta1
Today we are very happy to announce the first beta release of Icinga for Windows with version 1.13.0.0! This new release provides a huge number of improvements and changes to the Framework as well as the default Windows Plugins, which we will talk about later on. Why...
Icinga Director: Cloning dictionary row entries for objects from import sources
Over use of dictionaries in monitoring leads to complex and ugly configurations. This in turn makes monitoring complicated. Hence, it is advisable to use it, only if it is needed or in special cases. Even in these cases it is worthwhile to keep it simple. On that...
Icinga Package Repository Key Rotation, 2024
Icinga uses it's own repositories to distribute installation packages for the Icinga software. Today, we're announcing the rotation of the GPG key used to sign our repositories and packages. Currently, our repository is signed with a 1024 bit DSA key. Key rotation is...
Visualise your Icinga Cluster with Clustergraph
This is a guest blogpost from Dave Kempe from Sol1 At Sol1, we provide services around scaling and automating Icinga rollouts for customers. In large environments, we make heavy use of the excellent distributed monitoring features of Icinga to build redundant clusters...
Icinga Notifications Web: Schedule configuration
A few weeks ago, we released the first beta version of the Icinga Notifications Web module. The Configuration tab provides the option to create schedules that can be used as recipients for notifications. What is a Schedule and how does it work? A schedule is a...
Rohde & Schwarz Creates Cutting-edge Technology Systems with Icinga
We take great pride in our diverse global customers and users who rely on Icinga for critical IT infrastructure monitoring. That's why we're excited to share their Success Stories. These narratives come from companies and organizations of all sizes and industries,...
Getting Started With Icinga Notifications
Icinga Notifications and Icinga Notifications Web just celebrated their first beta release. This post will try to help you get started by explaining concepts and configurations.
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