When working with systemd services in Linux, you might encounter situations where multiple instances of a service need to be managed dynamically. When I had to develop a solution to monitor multiple...
Managing Multiple Service Instances with a Systemd Generator
When working with systemd services in Linux, you might encounter situations where multiple instances of a service need to be managed dynamically. When I had to develop a solution to monitor multiple...
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 Reporting v1.0
Yes! It's true! As of today, we are announcing the general availability of Icinga Reporting in version 1.0. You can find all issues related to this release on our Roadmap. Please also refer to the corresponding upgrade section in the documentation. What's New? As you...
Releasing Icinga Director v1.11
You may have noticed that, during the last few weeks, we released a bunch of new versions for different components of our stack. It's a very exciting time of the year for us, since we're currently finishing work that we have done through the last months. Today, we're...
Why infrastructure monitoring is important
In today's technology driven world, businesses rely heavily on their digital infrastructure to operate efficiently and serve customers effectively. With the growing complexity of these infrastructures, ensuring their stability and performance has become paramount....
Releasing Icinga Certificate Monitoring v1.3.0
Today we’re announcing the general availability of Icinga Certificate Monitoring in version 1.3.0. You can find all issues related to this release on our Roadmap. Please also refer to the corresponding upgrade section in the documentation. What’s New? We have made a...
Releasing Icinga Business Process Modeling v2.5
Today we’re announcing the general availability of Icinga Business Process Modeling v2.5.0. You can find all issues related to this release on our Roadmap. A Browser's Nemesis Since the very beginning, Icinga Business Process Modeling provides the possibility to...
Dependency Redundancy Groups in Icinga 2.14
Icinga 2.14 introduced a new feature that allows to better model complex dependencies between your hosts and services: redundancy groups. Let's take an e-mail server as an example. In order to deliver outgoing messages, it has to look up the addresses of the...
Releasing Icinga Ansible collection v0.3.0
This release of the collection will feature a whole set of possibilities to deploy a complete Icinga 2 environment. Before diving deep into the collection, a quick recap of all roles which were available and which are included in the current release v0.3.0. repos: The...
Figma’s powerful Auto Layout Feature
While it might be different within organizations, most demonstrations of Figma features publicly available use case you can see on the Internet are pretty basic. It makes sense for demonstration purposes, but I’d like to show how I use more complex Auto Layout setups...
Content-Security-Policy: How to add inline CSS to HTML Documents in Icinga Modules
Since the Icinga Web 2.12 release we have added a setting to enable content security policy in Icinga Web. This provides security against Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks when the setting is enabled. This is done by adding Content-Security-Policy in our HTTP...
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