Today we are happy to announce that - after a long bugfixing session - we released Icinga for Windows v1.13.3. This release ships with a new PowerShell Framework (v1.13.3) and PowerShell Plugins...

Releasing Icinga for Windows v1.13.3
Today we are happy to announce that - after a long bugfixing session - we released Icinga for Windows v1.13.3. This release ships with a new PowerShell Framework (v1.13.3) and PowerShell Plugins...

How Quick User Tests Help Us Make Better UI Decisions in Icinga Web
Designing user interfaces for Icinga Web is always a bit of a balancing act. Once we’ve worked through all the technical and conceptual details of a new feature, it can be tough to step back and see things from a fresh user’s point of view. We as developers know too...

How To Pick The Correct Metrics For Your Monitoring
This is a guest blogpost by Adam Sweet from the Icinga Partner Transitiv Technologies. Since this is a longer post, we added a tl;dr at the end. For many, host and application monitoring is an afterthought at the end of a project. Some people don’t think about...
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...
Icinga Reviews – Thanks for your great ratings!
We´d like to thank our loyal users and customers for the numerous top reviews of Icinga on Garnter Peer Insights! We´re very happy that you share your experience and satisfaction with other people on this review platform and support us with it. What is Gartner...
The Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins Collection
This is a guest blogpost from Linuxfabrik At Linuxfabrik we have been developing a collection of currently 130+ plugins for Icinga, Nagios and other compatible monitoring systems for more than two years now. Each of these plugins is a specialized command line tool...
Icinga 2 IRC notifications. The complete guide
A few months ago I wrote about sending notifications to Rocket.Chat. While that messaging tool is quite powerful, one may also prefer to keep it simple. So let's also address the good old IRC. No test system? No problem! Setting up an IRC daemon is pretty easy:...
Adapting Icinga Web modules To Icinga DB
Icinga DB web has a better layout and is more user friendly. This makes monitoring more simple. Hence it would be nice if we could adapt all the Icinga modules to Icinga DB. In this blogpost, I will discuss how to adapt Icinga Web modules to Icinga DB. To do this,...

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