Observability vs Monitoring: Enhancing, Not Replacing

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....

Security Updates for Icinga Director

Security Updates for Icinga Director

Icinga has published a total of five updates yesterday for Icinga Director and one of its dependencies, the incubator module. Their main purpose is to fix two Cross-Site-Request-Forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities. We treat them with a very high criticality and advice to...

Analyzing configuration problems with Icinga 2

Analyzing configuration problems with Icinga 2

Today, I want to showcase an old, but still very useful, tool when it comes to analyzing and debugging an Icinga 2 configuration: the icinga2 object list command. It can be helpful in a variety of situations, for example when you want to verify that a config change...

Releasing Icinga v2.14.2

Releasing Icinga v2.14.2

Version 2.14.2 is a hotfix release for master nodes that mainly fixes excessive disk usage caused by the InfluxDB writers. Icinga 2.14.0 introduced a change to the InfluxDB Writer that resulted in InfluxDB storing the data less efficiently. This release restores the...

Icinga DB Web migration made easier

Icinga DB Web migration made easier

For users using monitoring module, migrating their custom dashboards, navigation items and permissions and restrictions to Icinga DB Web has been made easier with the recent Icinga DB Web release (v1.1.1) through its migrate command. Once Icinga DB Web has been...

Top 3 Icinga Components You Can’t Ignore

Top 3 Icinga Components You Can’t Ignore

Monitoring your systems is like having a superhero keeping an eye on your digital realm. And when it comes to superheroes in the world of monitoring, Icinga takes center stage. But did you know that Icinga becomes even mightier with the help of components? In this...

Critical hotfix releases: Icinga 2.14.1 and 2.13.9

Critical hotfix releases: Icinga 2.14.1 and 2.13.9

Imagine you've installed Icinga 2.0.0 on 2014-06-06, the day it was released. You've tested its features, over the time we've added more of them and by now your test cluster went in production. An Icinga cluster operates on TLS which involves a root CA, typically...

IPL: How to use ipl-web

IPL: How to use ipl-web

In my ongoing blogpost series about the Icinga PHP library, I am briefly explaining what the individual components of this library do and how easily you can use them in your project. In my previous blog post, i already covered the ipl-html and explained how easy it is...

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Join the Icinga Insiders Community

Building open source software comes with the great benefit of receiving feedback constantly from our users and community. In our public code repositories on GitHub we collect bugs and feature requests. With our community forum we provide a platform for Icinga users to...

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