When hosting in a secure or corporate environment, Internet access is often restricted or blocked completely. While this makes sense from a security point of view, this introduces some challenges....
Mirroring Icinga Packages in Air-Gapped and Restricted Environments
When hosting in a secure or corporate environment, Internet access is often restricted or blocked completely. While this makes sense from a security point of view, this introduces some challenges....
How to Use Git Bisect to Pinpoint Bugs Precisely
A feature that used to work suddenly broke. The problem? There were 300 commits since the last time I knew it worked. Checking each commit manually would take forever. Fortunately, Git has a tool designed exactly for this situation: git bisect. What is Git Bisect? The...
Syncing LDAP Users & Groups with the Icinga Notifications Web API
If you're running Icinga in a mid-to-large organization, chances are your users and teams are already defined in LDAP or Active Directory. Manually re-creating contacts and contact groups in Icinga Notifications Web is tedious and error-prone, but thankfully, it...
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...
Releasing Icinga for Windows v1.13.0
Today we are happy to announce that we released Icinga for Windows v1.13.0 a couple of days ago. We have already talked about the changes coming to v1.13.0 with the beta blog-post last year in more depth, and will focus only on some core changes here. Improved...
Releasing Icinga 2 v2.14.5
Today, we are announcing the release of Icinga 2 v2.14.5. It fixes a regression that was introduced in v2.14.4 and caused the icinga2 node setup, icinga2 node wizard, and icinga2 pki request commands to fail if a certificate was requested from a node that has to...
Revising Icinga Exchange
Icinga is an open-source project, but it's only become the product we like to use thanks to co-development, brainstorming and suggestions from the community. That's why we created a platform in the past to facilitate the exchange of custom implementations like check...
Common cloud monitoring challenges we can overcome!
In today's fast-paced digital landscape, businesses are moving their operations to the cloud more than ever before. This shift brings incredible benefits like scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency. While it does introduce various common cloud monitoring...
Releasing Icinga 2 v2.14.4, 2.13.11
Icinga 2 version 2.14.4 and 2.13.11 have been released today. These releases address issues in both Icinga 2 itself and when used together with Icinga DB. They are available both as code - v2.14.4, v2.13.11 - and packaged. Changes in v2.14.4 This bugfix release is...
Women in Tech: My Journey at Icinga
Four years ago I joined Icinga. Back then, everything was new to me: a new team, a new industry, and an exciting challenge. Today, four years later, I look back on an incredible, inspiring journey – one that has taught me so much, both professionally and personally,...
Understanding Observability, Monitoring, and Telemetry Differences
Defining the Terms: Observability, Monitoring, and Telemetry In the realm of IT infrastructure, understanding observability, monitoring, and telemetry is crucial. Each plays a distinct role in system management. While they interconnect, their specific functions...
Monitoring the Monitoring: Demystifying the Icinga DB Health Check
In this post we will take a look at the icingadb check command built into Icinga 2 for monitoring the health of Icinga DB. If you have already configured it, this blog post will give you some insights on what it actually checks, otherwise, it showcases what useful...
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