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...
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...
Women in Tech: My Journey at Icinga
Four years ago I joined Icinga. Back then, everything was new to me: a new team, a new industry, and an exciting challenge. Today, four years later, I look back on an incredible, inspiring journey – one that has taught me so much, both professionally and personally,...
Understanding Observability, Monitoring, and Telemetry Differences
Defining the Terms: Observability, Monitoring, and Telemetry In the realm of IT infrastructure, understanding observability, monitoring, and telemetry is crucial. Each plays a distinct role in system management. While they interconnect, their specific functions...
Icinga Camp Berlin 2022
Our first Icinga Camp after 2019 now took place almost 3 years later and was an amazing event that took us right back in time. We tried to create an atmosphere where we could share our current state of things, introduce new features and have people who work with...
Why is infrastructure monitoring important?
Infrastructure monitoring is used to collect health and performance data from servers, virtual machines, containers, databases, and other backend components in a tech stack. How infrastructure Monitoring works Infrastructure monitoring tracks the availability,...
Releasing Icinga Director Branches
Many Icinga users favour the Icinga Director to manage their Icinga configuration. Icinga Director comes with many features to enable you to create and modify Icinga configuration through the web interface. One outstanding feature of Icinga Director is the Activity...
Icinga for Windows Preview: Visualize your Metrics!
It has been a while since we published some news regarding Icinga for Windows - that's why we would like to tell you one month ahead about a big change which follows with version 1.10 in August. The Long Journey Since the first release of Icinga for Windows including...
Magazine Luiza Monitoring Case Study: Icinga Supports Digital Transformation
At Icinga, we are proud to support customers worldwide by providing robust IT infrastructure monitoring solution. In this Magazine Luiza monitoring case study, we highlight how South America’s largest e-commerce retailer leverages Icinga to achieve its ambitious...
Finally accomplished – Icinga DB Released
We couldn't be happier and are proud to announce the final release of Icinga DB today. After many years of development and one or the other setback on the way to the release, we are proud to finally hand you the final version of Icinga DB for your monitoring...
Embedding Git Commit Information in Go Binaries
Embedding Git commit information in Go Binaries is essential for identifying exact software versions, especially when working with development builds. So it's good if software is able to tell you its version, for example by calling it with --version. For release...
Using Sketch Symbols to boost the UI mock up workflow 🚀
As you may have noticed in one of my last posts, I’m not super averse to using Sketch in my daily workflow. Still, for creating UI mock ups, both high low quality, Sketch is the graphics tool, that I feel most comfortable in, because it enables me to work and ideate...
Icinga integration cases: OpsBridge and ServiceNow
The health of your systems and applications is fundamental for your organization’s infrastructure. Monitoring them indicates if there are any issues that need to be handled before they become serious and affect your customers. This is why companies often use a...
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