Releasing Icinga DB v1.2.1

Releasing Icinga DB v1.2.1

Today we are releasing a new version of Icinga DB, version 1.2.1, a maintenance release that addresses HA issues and includes a number of other fixes. Most prominent, crashes caused by an invalid HA state were investigated and fixed mainly by the following changes....

Releasing Icinga Director v1.11.3

Releasing Icinga Director v1.11.3

We are happy to announce the release of Icinga Director version 1.11.3. This release addresses few important bug fixes making Icinga Director more stable. You can find all issues related to this release on our Roadmap. UI This update resolves several errors caused in...

Why you need network monitoring?

Why you need network monitoring?

Network monitoring is a continuous analysis of a network to detect and correct any performance issues. Network monitoring involves collecting network statistics to determine the quality of services offered by the network. With tools like Icinga, it's possible to...

Replay Log in Distributed Icinga Environments

Replay Log in Distributed Icinga Environments

An essential part of a distributed monitoring environment with Icinga that includes master, satellite and agent nodes is the replay log functionality. The replay log is a built-in mechanism to ensure nodes in a distributed setup keep the same history e.g. check...

Icinga 2 Rocket.Chat notifications. The complete guide

Icinga 2 Rocket.Chat notifications. The complete guide

About one year ago the NETWAYS colleagues showed you how to let Icinga 2 notify users through XMPP/Jabber. Now it's time to also cover the somewhat more fancy Rocket.Chat. No Rocket.Chat? No problem! Setting up a test system is pretty easy: Clone this Git repository...

Releasing Icinga DB v1.0-RC2 – Key Updates & Improvements

Releasing Icinga DB v1.0-RC2 – Key Updates & Improvements

We are super excited to release the second Release Candidate of Icinga DB! This release comes after many hours, days and months of experimenting, re-thinking and rebuilding our own code and marks a huge step towards a new data backend for Icinga. Why Icinga DB Since...

Icinga DB Housekeeping

Icinga DB Housekeeping

Introduction We all know that the history data is important in monitoring. But this history data becomes obsolete over time and those records become garbage which would only fill up space. So it is important to remove obsolete history records to free up space. We call...

Polishing the Icinga DB Web User Interface

Polishing the Icinga DB Web User Interface

When redesigning the new Icinga DB Web interface elements we already started establishing consistent design elements. This is even more supported by developing the Icinga PHP Library (IPL) from the ground up. IPL makes developing reusable widgets a lot easier for...

How to monitor a web server running NGINX|httpd

How to monitor a web server running NGINX|httpd

Web servers are software services that store resources for a website and then makes them available over the World Wide Web. These stored resources can be text, images, video and application data. Computers that are interfaced with the server mostly web browsers...

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