This is a guest blogpost by Adam Sweet from the Icinga Partner Transitiv Technologies. Since this is a longer post, we added a tl;dr at the end. For many, host and application monitoring is an...
How To Pick The Correct Metrics For Your Monitoring
This is a guest blogpost by Adam Sweet from the Icinga Partner Transitiv Technologies. Since this is a longer post, we added a tl;dr at the end. For many, host and application monitoring is an...
Monitor Microservices Effectively: A Practical Guide
Contents What Is Microservice Monitoring? Why Monitoring Microservices Is Different – and What It Means for You Key Metrics and Signals You Should Track Best Practices for Monitoring Microservices Monitoring Tools for Microservices: What to Look For Microservice...
Automation: Data processing of imported data using property modifiers in Icinga Director
The raw data imported from the external sources (CSV, SQL, REST API, LDAP, etc.) is usually not in the right format. Hence, they have to be processed or converted before they are used to modify objects using synchronization rules. To do this, Icinga Director provides...
Releasing Icinga DB 1.1.1
We are happy to announce the release of Icinga DB version 1.1.1, whose packages are generally available on supported operating systems today. With this release, we address a number of bugs in the Icinga DB daemon, some of which caused a few crashes, we address some...
Mapping Hostnames to Locations with Icinga Director – A Step-by-Step Guide
Recently I came across the Maps module build and maintained by our community. The module displays host objects and annotations on openstreetmap using the JavaScript library leaflet.js. The module reads the coordinates for each host from custom variables and is able to...
Icinga for Windows v1.11.0 – It’s finally here!
Today we are happy to announce that after many delays, re-writes, pushbacks and restructuring Icinga for Windows v1.11.0 is finally released! First, we would like to thank everyone for contributing feedback over the past month to track down issues and testing new...
How to resolve circular dependency in Icinga2
We recently announced the general availability of Icinga 2.14, which most of you might have noticed, and with that in mind, I'd like to show you how you can easily troubleshoot and eliminate some of the dependencies headaches known as the dependency cycle. What does...
CSS doesn’t need to be ugly
Ever looked at some CSS and your first instinct was to close the editor and never look at it again? I did. Though, I don't have the luxury to close the editor in such a case, as is probably often the case for others as well. Code grows with time and so do bad...
Releasing Icinga 2.14 and 2.13.8
We are happy to announce the release of Icinga 2.14.0 and 2.13.8 today. Especially the 2.14.0 release comes with a lot of fixes and improvements and this blog post will highlight the most important ones. There are some breaking changes in 2.14.0, so please make sure...
How useful is the Figma’s new variables feature?
When the news appeared that there would be a new Variables feature released for Figma, it immediately seemed huge to me. I’ve just started building the Icinga Web Design System in Figma. One of the biggest struggles was to deal with our light/dark theme modes. I...
Icinga Kubernetes Helm Charts
Daniel Bodky and Markus Opolka from our partner NETWAYS developed the very first Icinga Kubernetes Helm Charts and released it in an alpha version. If you have ever wanted to deploy an entire Icinga stack in your Kubernetes cluster, now is your chance. I also want to...
Recap of Icinga Camp Berlin 2023
It was a nice sunny morning, the weather really with us, for our Icinga Camp Berlin this year. When I peeked outside after helping with the setup, people were already mingling, getting ready to check in and get their first coffee to prepare for the day ahead. Bernd...
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