As Bernd mentioned at last year's OSMC, the Icinga for Windows team was heavy working on v1.14.0 which was going to be released in December. Well, we are off a couple of days, but we believe the...
Releasing Icinga for Windows v1.14.0 – We have been cooking!
As Bernd mentioned at last year's OSMC, the Icinga for Windows team was heavy working on v1.14.0 which was going to be released in December. Well, we are off a couple of days, but we believe the...
Sync Your Users Into Icinga Notifications: Introducing the Contacts/Groups API
If you’ve ever onboarded a teammate at 4:57 PM on a Friday (or offboarded one at 4:58 PM… ), you know the pain: keeping notification contacts and groups up to date is work. With the Icinga Notifications REST API, you can automate that and avoid drift. That’s why I’m...
Releasing Icinga 2 v2.15.2, v2.14.8, v2.13.14 and Icinga for Windows v1.13.4, v1.12.4, v1.11.2
Toady, we are releasing multiple new versions of Icinga 2 and Icinga for Windows, all of them fixing a file permission issue present in all installations on Windows. Impact The following paths were created without setting proper permissions, allowing all local users...
Automation: Data processing of imported data using property modifiers in Icinga Director
The raw data imported from the external sources (CSV, SQL, REST API, LDAP, etc.) is usually not in the right format. Hence, they have to be processed or converted before they are used to modify objects using synchronization rules. To do this, Icinga Director provides...
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
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...
Releasing Icinga Web v2.11.5 and 2.12.3, Icinga Director 1.10.4 and 1.11.4, Icinga Reporting 1.0.3
Update (2025-03-26 16:45:00 UTC) We released a hotfix release for Icinga Web 2.11 and 2.12 afterwards. Please install 2.11.6 and 2.12.4, respectively. -- Today we release three updates, each for an integral component of Icinga, which all close a total of five security...
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 monitoring solution that gives you more flexibility and control. Whatever...
SSL Certificate Monitoring and Management
SSL certificates are the foundation of secure communication on the web. They protect data integrity, enable encryption, and verify identities. But even a single expired certificate can cause outages, lost trust, and serious security risks. Effective SSL certificate...
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,...
Managing Multiple Service Instances with a Systemd Generator
When working with systemd services in Linux, you might encounter situations where multiple instances of a service need to be managed dynamically. When I had to develop a solution to monitor multiple Kubernetes clusters with Icinga for Kubernetes, I ran into exactly...
How to do Agentless Monitoring with check_by_ssh
The fundamentals of Icinga 2 are check plugins. They are being executed and their return value is mapped to either Host or Service objects. Everything else follows on top. These check plugins can be either from the Monitoring Plugins or custom. While their origin does...
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