Introduction: Why Alert Fatigue Hits Sysadmins Sooner or Later If you’ve ever muted your phone during a maintenance window, only to miss a real outage an hour later, you’re not alone. Sysadmins on...
Drowning in Alert Fatigue? How to Regain Control of Your Monitoring
Introduction: Why Alert Fatigue Hits Sysadmins Sooner or Later If you’ve ever muted your phone during a maintenance window, only to miss a real outage an hour later, you’re not alone. Sysadmins on...
How to Fix Cyclic Inheritance Errors in Icinga Director during Object Configuration
Icinga Director is a powerful tool that greatly simplifies the configuration, management, and deployment of monitoring objects in Icinga. It provides a user-friendly interface and automation features that make complex setups easier to maintain. Occasionally, though,...
Ipl-html: Introducing new Form Element Decorators
A Fresh Take on Form Element Decorators Decorators have always been a powerful concept in Icinga Web’s form system — letting developers control how form elements are displayed without hardcoding markup everywhere. But until recently, the decorator system had its...
Releasing Icinga DB v1.2.1
Today we are releasing a new version of Icinga DB, version 1.2.1, a maintenance release that addresses HA issues and includes a number of other fixes. Most prominent, crashes caused by an invalid HA state were investigated and fixed mainly by the following changes....
Releasing Icinga Director v1.11.3
We are happy to announce the release of Icinga Director version 1.11.3. This release addresses few important bug fixes making Icinga Director more stable. You can find all issues related to this release on our Roadmap. UI This update resolves several errors caused in...
Icinga Notifications – How to Set Up Desktop Alerts
We recently released the beta version of our Notification Web Module, which includes a cool feature that is not yet known to everyone. We named it Desktop Notifications (Browser Push Notifications). With this feature enabled, your browser can send you instant...
Uncovering a Client Certificate Verification Bypass in Icinga
This is a guest blogpost from Finn Steglich. As of Icinga 2 versions 2.14.3, 2.13.10, 2.12.11, and 2.11.12 from 12th November 2024, a critical security issue affecting Icinga 2 Masters, Satellites and Agents has been addressed. Now we'd like to release some more...
Releasing Icinga Director v1.11.2
We are pleased to announce the release of Icinga Director version 1.11.2, which addresses several important bug fixes to enhance the stability across different areas of the Director. UI Enhancements This update resolves several issues, including errors when changing...
Getting Started with Icinga: Your All-in-One Guide to Mastering Monitoring
If you’re looking for a comprehensive guide to getting started with Icinga, you’re in the right place. Whether you're new to Icinga or a seasoned user who thinks they’ve seen it all, some of these resources could surprise you with a few tricks. Let's dive into the...
Releasing Icinga Web v2.12.2
Today we’re announcing the general availability of Icinga Web v2.12.2. You can find all issues related to this release on our Roadmap. General Fixes Icinga Web has become quite mature over the years. Typically, only new features cause issues and require fixing....
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...
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