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...
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...
Monitoring the Monitoring: Demystifying the Icinga DB Health Check
In this post we will take a look at the icingadb check command built into Icinga 2 for monitoring the health of Icinga DB. If you have already configured it, this blog post will give you some insights on what it actually checks, otherwise, it showcases what useful...
Meet the Icinga Team in Ghent!
We invite you to join Icinga COO Blerim Sheqa and our developers for the Icinga Meetup in Ghent (Belgium) on February 5, 2025. This event is part of Config Management Camp 2025 and represents a great opportunity to connect with the Icinga community, learn about the...
Releasing Icinga 2.12.8
Today we are releasing Icinga 2.12.8. It addresses an issue with one of the fixes included in the 2.13.3 and 2.12.7 releases that was applied incorrectly in version 2.12.7. In addition, the bundled dependencies on Windows are updated to the latest available versions....
Building a strong relationship with Red Hat
Working together with other companies is a crucial part of our everyday business. Be it with our customers, business partners or technical partners - a close relationship is key for every future collaboration. Vendors of operating systems play an important role in...
Releasing Icinga 2.13.3 and 2.12.7
Today we are happy to announce the release of Icinga 2.13.3 and 2.12.7. Quite a number of bug fixes accumulated since the last release, including fixes for multiple crashes. Most changes are included in both versions except for the changes related to Icinga DB. These...
Why Monitoring?
We have decided to make some short educational videos about Icinga, and today we will be releasing the first one: Why Monitoring? In these videos we want to explain the Whys and Whats and Hows around Monitoring in a way that is accessible to anyone who is interested....
Introduction of the ansible-collection-icinga
Ansible is a commonly known tool to easily automate deployments in infrastructures, its configuration is based on YAML and is able to scale in big environments. Icinga 2 provides its own secure agent to monitor hosts, high available satellite zones and monitoring...
We are announcing Icinga-X!
Some would say, it's "just" a release. We say it's revolutionary. Never seen before. One of a kind. Exceptional. Why, you wonder? Because we have reinvented monitoring. Please release - it's about time The time has finally come to share the news with you!...
How to use path wildcards in Graphite Module
The Graphite module of Icingaweb2 is a great tool for rendering graphs from performance data. The latest version 1.2.0 introduces some bug fixes and new features like dark and light mode support, a lot of new templates, support for path wildcard, etc. The support for...
Parameterizing GitLab CI/CD?
While doing packaging for Icinga, I noticed we have a lot of YAML files describing GitLab pipelines doing very similar jobs. The same build job across different operating systems. That’s wasteful behaviour, which leads to a bigger workload when it comes to modifying...
Releasing Icinga Web v2.10
Today we’re announcing the general availability of Icinga Web v2.10.0. You can find all issues related to this release on our Roadmap. Please make sure to also check the respective upgrading section in the documentation. The Appearance of Dark and Light We have...
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