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...
Icinga Director: Cloning dictionary row entries for objects from import sources
Over use of dictionaries in monitoring leads to complex and ugly configurations. This in turn makes monitoring complicated. Hence, it is advisable to use it, only if it is needed or in special cases. Even in these cases it is worthwhile to keep it simple. On that...
Icinga Package Repository Key Rotation, 2024
Icinga uses it's own repositories to distribute installation packages for the Icinga software. Today, we're announcing the rotation of the GPG key used to sign our repositories and packages. Currently, our repository is signed with a 1024 bit DSA key. Key rotation is...
Visualise your Icinga Cluster with Clustergraph
This is a guest blogpost from Dave Kempe from Sol1 At Sol1, we provide services around scaling and automating Icinga rollouts for customers. In large environments, we make heavy use of the excellent distributed monitoring features of Icinga to build redundant clusters...
Icinga Notifications Web: Schedule configuration
A few weeks ago, we released the first beta version of the Icinga Notifications Web module. The Configuration tab provides the option to create schedules that can be used as recipients for notifications. What is a Schedule and how does it work? A schedule is a...
Rohde & Schwarz Creates Cutting-edge Technology Systems with Icinga
We take great pride in our diverse global customers and users who rely on Icinga for critical IT infrastructure monitoring. That's why we're excited to share their Success Stories. These narratives come from companies and organizations of all sizes and industries,...
Getting Started With Icinga Notifications
Icinga Notifications and Icinga Notifications Web just celebrated their first beta release. This post will try to help you get started by explaining concepts and configurations.
Releasing Icinga DB Web v1.1.3 and a IPL security release
Today we’re announcing the general availability of Icinga DB Web v1.1.3 as well as a vulnerability fix for the Icinga PHP Library (IPL) in version 0.14.1. You can find all issues related to Icinga DB Web on its Roadmap. The fixed vulnerability is covered here. Icinga...
Simplified Database Schema Upgrades for Icinga Web and Modules
With the release of Icinga Web 2.12, we've streamlined and simplified the process for performing database schema upgrades for both Icinga Web and its modules. This new feature not only indicates when an upgrade is pending but also allows for automatic execution of the...
The Icinga Notifications Beta is Here!
This release has the version 0.1.0 and is available via our package repositories. Be sure to check the documentation on how to install it. So what is Icinga Notifications actually? It is not possible to explain every single detail now. We will eventually publish...
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