Not all monitoring work happens remotely. Some of it means packing a bag, taking the train across three countries, and sitting down with the customer's team. This is a report from a week-long Icinga...
Consulting on Site: An Icinga Engagement near Basel
Not all monitoring work happens remotely. Some of it means packing a bag, taking the train across three countries, and sitting down with the customer's team. This is a report from a week-long Icinga...
Opsgenie End of Life: Where Open-Source Alerting Stands in 2026
Atlassian stops supporting Opsgenie on April 5, 2027. New sales ended on June 4, 2025, and data left in the platform after the support date gets deleted. If Icinga pushes alerts into Opsgenie today, that route has an expiry date, and so does every on-call rotation and...
Releasing Icinga 2 v2.16.5 and v2.15.6
Today, we are announcing the availability of Icinga 2 v2.16.5 and v2.15.6. These releases contains some security enhancements that fix a couple of minor vulnerabilities. The release for v2.16.5 also contains a bugfix for a regression in the IcingaDB feature that was...
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...
Icinga Quality Time – Our Yearly Teamevent
Last week, it was that time again: our annual Icinga team event took place. Let’s get this out of the way first: yes, that’s the entire Icinga team in the photo. For some, it might be surprising how small we actually are. What you see here is the core team, the people...
Releasing Icinga Dependency Views 1.0.1
Today we’re announcing the availability of Icinga Dependency Views v1.0.1. Updated packages are available. In This Release Sometimes it feels like pure irony: you set up beautiful, custom views in Icinga; only to find they don’t show what you expect. Or worse, they...
Releasing Icinga DB Web v1.2.2 and Icinga Web v2.12.5
Today we’re announcing the general availability of Icinga DB Web v1.2.2 and Icinga Web 2.12.5. Icinga DB Web This is a security release. It is recommended to upgrade quickly. You can find all issues related to this release on our roadmap. Access Granted The new...
Dashboard Sharing – The Hard Way
Current Limitation: Dashboard Sharing Not Yet Supported Unlike menu items, dashboards in Icinga Web 2 currently can't be shared across users. This is something we will implement in future versions, but for now users can only create dashboards for themselves. We don't...
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