In today's fast-paced digital landscape, businesses are moving their operations to the cloud more than ever before. This shift brings incredible benefits like scalability, flexibility, and...
Common cloud monitoring challenges we can overcome!
In today's fast-paced digital landscape, businesses are moving their operations to the cloud more than ever before. This shift brings incredible benefits like scalability, flexibility, and...
Releasing Icinga 2 v2.14.4, 2.13.11
Icinga 2 version 2.14.4 and 2.13.11 have been released today. These releases address issues in both Icinga 2 itself and when used together with Icinga DB. They are available both as code - v2.14.4, v2.13.11 - and packaged. Changes in v2.14.4 This bugfix release is...
Looking for a Nagios Alternative? Discover Icinga for Open Source Monitoring!
Nagios has been a cornerstone in network monitoring for years. However, modern IT infrastructures demand more and IT professionals are seeking for a Nagios alternative: better scalability, seamless automation, and advanced integration capabilities. That’s where Icinga...
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...
Why Open Source Cloud Monitoring?
When operating a larger business or project, one problem comes quickly apparent: How can I know that my servers and their applications are up and the performance is good across the board? The answer is, of course, monitoring software. But why someone should consider...
Using ChatGPT + Icinga?
The news have been full of coverage: ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer), the prototype chatbot released by OpenAI in November 2022 seems to hail in a new era of information sourcing, schooling and learning, and interacting with a computer. The service...
Docker: ARMed with PIes
More and more people use machines with the energy-efficient ARM chips. No wonder, after all the Raspberry Pi's processing power evolves which makes it more suitable for a wider range of use cases. For the power users there are the new 80 core servers with Ampere...
Releasing Icinga vSphere® Integration v1.6
We're happy to announce our first release of the year! Version 1.6 of the Icinga vSphere® Integration is out now and waiting to get installed on your Icinga monitoring environment. This release brings performance improvements, ships new metrics to InfluxDB and some...
Icinga DB Web deep custom variable filter
In this blog post I will introduce you to filtering, based on deep custom variables in Icinga DB Web. In Icinga Web 2 monitoring module, it is not possible to filter deep custom variables. Example of deep custom variables involving dictionaries and arrays: vars.dummy...
Releasing Icinga Web v2.9.8, v2.10.4 and v2.11.3
Today we’re announcing the general availability of Icinga Web v2.9.8, v2.10.4 and v2.11.3. These are accompanied by the release of the Icinga PHP Library in version 0.10.1. SQL Injection in Icinga DB Web If you are using Icinga DB Web, please make sure to upgrade...
Icinga DB Web Search Bar – Features & How It Works
With Icinga DB Web you can filter the list views in a very elegant and lovely manner. If you haven't tried this search bar yet, it's time to begin now. Unlike in the monitoring module, where you have to tediously filter the views based on clicking through all the...
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