Becoming an Icinga partner means building a genuine open-source monitoring practice - not signing up for a lead-referral program. That distinction shapes everything else about how the partnership...
What It Really Takes to Become an Icinga Partner
Becoming an Icinga partner means building a genuine open-source monitoring practice - not signing up for a lead-referral program. That distinction shapes everything else about how the partnership...
Releasing Icinga 2 v2.16.2, 2.15.4 and 2.14.9
Today, we are releasing security updates for Icinga 2 fixing multiple security issues. Users are advised to upgrade immediately, as two of them allow an unauthenticated attacker to take over or crash the Icinga 2 process over the network. The other security fixes only...
Icinga Director, vSphere® Integration, and SSO: New Releases Available
This release roundup brings together Icinga Web SSO v1.0.0, Icinga Director v1.11.9, and Icinga vSphere® Integration v1.8.4. It introduces OpenID Connect single sign-on for Icinga Web and includes compatibility updates for the upcoming Icinga PHP Library 1.0.0...
Beyond PHP-FPM: Modern PHP Application Servers
For decades, PHP has powered the web using a simple model: process a request, send a response, then shut down. This model, especially in the form of CGI and PHP-FPM, is easy to understand but increasingly inefficient for modern web demands. The Traditional Model: CGI...
IPL: How to create lists with ipl-web
In my previous blog post, I explained how to build lists using ipl-web widgets. That method will soon be deprecated due to its complexity. With the recent ipl-web release, we have introduced a simpler and more flexible approach to building lists, using a lightweight...
Icinga 2 DSL – Variable Scopes
Ever wondered how Icinga 2 manages all those variables, and how it knows which one to use? In this blog post, we will explore all the different variable scopes in Icinga 2, and by the end, you will know what this mysterious error message means when you see it in your...
Hybrid IT Infrastructure Management
Introduction Today’s IT environments are rarely confined to a single data center or a single cloud provider. Enterprises are embracing a mix of cloud platforms, virtual machines, and on-premises hardware to stay agile and competitive. This blended environment is known...
How to Add Performance Data Graphs into Your Icinga Instance
This is a guest blogpost by Markus Opolka from the Icinga Enterprise Partner NETWAYS. After forking the Grafana Module for Icinga Web last year, we started thinking about alternative ways to display Icinga performance data graphically in the web interface....
Critical Icinga 2 Security Releases: 2.14.6, 2.13.12, 2.12.12 (CVE-2025-48057)
Today, we are releasing security updates for Icinga 2 fixing a critical vulnerability that allowed an attacker to obtain valid certificates from the Icinga CA under certain circumstances. Please note that if Icinga 2 is built with OpenSSL 1.1.0 (released in 2016) or...
Ownership change of the ansible-collection-icinga to NETWAYS
After NETWAYS has already taken a leading role in the past in maintaining the Ansible Collection Icinga, contributing features and bug fixes, it’s now official: The Ansible Collection Icinga is moving into the NETWAYS namespace (on GitHub and Ansible Galaxy). The...
Announcing Icinga for Kubernetes v0.3.0
We’re excited to share that Icinga for Kubernetes v0.3.0 is here! This release is packed with features designed to make monitoring your Kubernetes environments smoother, smarter, and more efficient. Let’s take a closer look at what’s new: Monitor Multiple...
Observability vs Monitoring: Enhancing, Not Replacing
In the dynamic world of IT operations, a common misconception has emerged: Observability vs Monitoring is often framed as a battle where one replaces the other. At Icinga, where open-source monitoring is our expertise, we aim to clarify this misunderstanding....
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