Unit-Testing is important Obviously nobody is disagreeing with this. It's just that during ongoing development and while focusing on features and bug-fixes, testing often falls behind in priority,...
Extending Unit-Testing on Icinga2
Unit-Testing is important Obviously nobody is disagreeing with this. It's just that during ongoing development and while focusing on features and bug-fixes, testing often falls behind in priority,...
Mastering Service Configuration in Icinga Director
The Icinga Director configuration tool makes it easy to define monitoring objects through the web UI and deploy them to the Icinga 2 API. In this blog post, I’ll walk you through how to configure services in Icinga Director. If you haven't used Icinga Director yet,...
Icinga DB Web Automation
Icinga DB Web Automation allows you to automate monitoring tasks and integrate them directly into your systems and workflows. It is possible to issue command actions without a browser. To do so, a form needs to be submitted by a tool such as cUrl. Every request you...
How the current OpenSSL vulnerabilities affect Icinga
Recently, OpenSSL published an advisory about two vulnerabilities, X.509 Email Address 4-byte Buffer Overflow (CVE-2022-3602) and X.509 Email Address Variable Length Buffer Overflow (CVE-2022-3786). Depending on the operating system you are using, this may affect...
Icinga 2 Advanced Training – Monitoring redesigned
If you have some experience with Icinga 2 or you already visited the Icinga 2 Fundamentals training you are in the right place. I am about to give you a small introduction into Icinga 2 Advanced training, since I recently visited this training myself. I already...
How We Schedule Tasks in PHP at Icinga – A Look Behind the Scenes
When building software like Icinga, some of the most critical operations happen silently in the background. Recurring tasks whether for collecting data, renewing certificates, or generating reports are essential to delivering the functionality our users rely on every...
Releasing Icinga vSphere® Integration v1.5.0
Our Icinga vSphere® module has reached a new milestone, v1.5.0. It contains some buxfixes and a lot of new features and improvements. For all details, check the full changelog. UI In the v1.5 you might notice a few updates on the UI. A lot of the changes are smaller...
IPL – Icinga PHP Library
A few years ago, we introduced a new, completely independent library. The IPL - Icinga PHP Library, a bundle of Icinga PHP libraries. Since then we are actively working on further development and adding new features. Today I would like to highlight individual parts of...
GitLab CI/CD Job Templates!
Like I’ve mentioned in my last blog post, we use GitLab pipelines for packaging. We have a lot of software, like Icinga, Icingaweb and its various modules, which we want to build across multiple different operating systems. This results in a huge number of jobs and...
Icinga & Apache Guacamole – A Powerful Combination for Remote Access
This is a guest blogpost from Cecilia Gripenberg from RedBridge Integration Magic One of Icinga’s greatest strengths is its ability to integrate with other systems and use those systems’ data to enrich monitoring. It can write time-series data to InfluxDB, Graphite or...
Resolving Git merge conflicts – easily and accurately
Nobody likes resolving merge/rebase/cherry-pick conflicts. I also don't, but I've found a scheme how to reduce the built-in headache. In this post I'm going to share my findings as well as practical examples. Warming up First let's brush up on merge conflicts with...
How to Create Custom-Branded Icinga Reports – Quick Tip
With Icinga Reporting you can create custom SLA reports for hosts and services that are monitored with Icinga. The module for Icinga Web fetches existing data and takes planned downtimes into account. You can filter for certain hosts and services as well as set custom...
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