No More Expiration Emails – What Now SSL/TLS certificates are critical for secure communication, and keeping track of their expiration is essential. Until now, Let’s Encrypt has sent email...

Let’s Encrypt Stops Expiration Emails – How to Ensure Your Certificates Stay Valid with SSL Certificate Monitoring
No More Expiration Emails – What Now SSL/TLS certificates are critical for secure communication, and keeping track of their expiration is essential. Until now, Let’s Encrypt has sent email...

Turns any command into a plugin: check_rungrep
Imagine you have one more special thing to monitor. While our Icinga 2 can observe infrastructure of almost any size, it still needs a plugin for each kind of check. Unfortunately not every command meets the monitoring plugin API: exit code 0-3 (ok, warning, critical,...

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 Kubernetes clusters with Icinga for Kubernetes, I ran into exactly...
Feedback Week & Community Call
It's here! We're starting today! The Icinga Feedback Week: an entire week dedicated to you, as well as honoring those that are dedicated to the community. By asking you questions and getting your answers, we’re gathering your thoughts and feedback, which are very...
Releasing Icinga Web Jira Integration v1.3.0
We are happy to announce the release of Icinga Web Jira Integration v1.3.0 today. You can find all issues related to this release on our Roadmap. What's It All About The last state change of an Icinga object is now shown in the Jira issue description. This allows you...
Releasing Icinga Cube v1.3.0
Today we’re announcing the general availability of the Icinga Cube in version 1.3.0. You can find all issues related to this release on our Roadmap. What's it all about The impatient and attentive reader can take a look at the screenshot below first. It shows all the...
Leveraging component variants in Figma for UI Design
Being a Sketch user since it's early days, I found Figma looked really promising, when it finally appeared. While Sketch caught up on most of Figma's features, like collaboration, developer handoff and AutoLayout (at least to some degree), the small feature set...
How Tenacta Group uses Icinga
This is a blogpost from Livio Daina from Tenacta Group Tenacta Group is an Italian company with a portfolio of worldwide leading brands that share the same mission: to develop designs and technological innovations that will improve people's quality of life. We have...
The Tale of a Single Lock in Icinga 2
To speed up startup and reload times of Icinga 2, we have already put a lot of effort into improving the configuration load performance and still continue to do so for the next major release. In this blog post, I will share the story of one particular issue we found,...
Why is Icinga called Icinga?
It's the year 2009, a nice weekend in late spring and a small group of monitoring enthusiasts comes together to discuss how to move forward with the idea of forking Nagios. Plans were made to make it faster, easier, more scalable, and simply better. Of course, such a...
IPL: How to use ipl-html
In my previous blogpost I briefly explained the IPL and the tasks that these individual libs can perform. Today I want to explain how our ipl-html lib works and how to use it. This library helps you write HTML in a very simple and safe way. You don't need text...
Security releases: Icinga 2.13.7 and 2.12.10
Recently the OpenSSL project released OpenSSL v1.1.1t and advised its users to upgrade due to several CVEs that release has fixed. We're not certified security experts, but we know that a redundant update is better than a missing update. While on Linux the OpenSSL...

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