Guest post by Markus Opolka, Senior Consultant at NETWAYS. Originally published on the NETWAYS blog as "Icinga und Prometheus integrieren" and "Alertmanager-Icinga-Bridge - Ein Signalilo Fork",...
Integrating Icinga and Prometheus
Guest post by Markus Opolka, Senior Consultant at NETWAYS. Originally published on the NETWAYS blog as "Icinga und Prometheus integrieren" and "Alertmanager-Icinga-Bridge - Ein Signalilo Fork",...
Specifics in Packaging Icinga Go Applications
Today's post provides insights into packaging Icinga Go applications and explains why there are seven Icinga DB version 1.5.1 packages. # apt-cache show icingadb | grep 'Version: 1.5.1' Version: 1.5.1-7+debian13 Version: 1.5.1-6+debian13 Version: 1.5.1-5+debian13...
Password Policies in Icinga Web
Icinga Web 2 now ships a PasswordPolicyHook that gives administrators and module developers full control over what constitutes a valid password. Instead of hard-coding a single rule set for every deployment, the hook makes password validation an extension point: any...
How to check CPU usage on Linux
When your Linux system feels sluggish, one of the first things to investigate is the CPU usage. The CPU (Central Processing Unit) is the brain of your machine, and if it’s overloaded, everything else slows down. In this guide, you’ll learn different ways to Linux...
What is SNMP Trap: Real-Time Alerts for Network Monitoring
Why wait for the next poll? An SNMP trap is a real-time alert sent from a device to a monitoring system, without waiting for polling. Ever had a router die silently at 3 AM while your monitoring system was still polling away every 5 minutes? Yeah… not fun. That’s...
Who Uses Icinga? 30 Real-World Deployments from 500 to 50,000+ Hosts
Introduction Thirty organizations have documented their Icinga deployment with us on the record, with names, architecture and numbers. The published deployments cover finance, telecom, manufacturing, public services, research and managed services. They range from...
Upgrade your monitoring lists with icon images
Recently I was importing an Icinga configuration for testing purposes. Working with this configuration, I found that there were icon images assigned to the objects. Sadly, those didn’t display, because I didn’t have the icon set installed. So I thought of creating my...
Targeting hosts and services in Icinga 2 API requests
Today, we are going to take a look at the Icinga 2 API and the various ways targets can be specified for different actions, such as querying information or scheduling downtimes. This post focuses on the API request payloads themselves and assumes some familiarity with...
Extending Unit-Testing on Icinga2
Unit-Testing is important Obviously nobody is disagreeing with this. It's just that during ongoing development and while focusing on features and bug-fixes, testing often falls behind in priority, especially when developers would need to write tests for existing or...
Mastering Service Configuration in Icinga Director
The Icinga Director configuration tool makes it easy to define monitoring objects through the web UI and deploy them to the Icinga 2 API. In this blog post, I’ll walk you through how to configure services in Icinga Director. If you haven't used Icinga Director yet,...
Icinga DB Web Automation
Icinga DB Web Automation allows you to automate monitoring tasks and integrate them directly into your systems and workflows. It is possible to issue command actions without a browser. To do so, a form needs to be submitted by a tool such as cUrl. Every request you...
Endpoint Monitoring with Icinga
Monitoring with Icinga primarily focuses on servers and infrastructure. But there are also the people operating these systems from their workstations and laptops. If a server can be accessed from a machine with an outdated operating system, the patch level of the...
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