Contents What Is Microservice Monitoring? Why Monitoring Microservices Is Different – and What It Means for You Key Metrics and Signals You Should Track Best Practices for Monitoring Microservices...
Monitor Microservices Effectively: A Practical Guide
Contents What Is Microservice Monitoring? Why Monitoring Microservices Is Different – and What It Means for You Key Metrics and Signals You Should Track Best Practices for Monitoring Microservices...
Automation: Data processing of imported data using property modifiers in Icinga Director
The raw data imported from the external sources (CSV, SQL, REST API, LDAP, etc.) is usually not in the right format. Hence, they have to be processed or converted before they are used to modify objects using synchronization rules. To do this, Icinga Director provides...
Releasing Icinga DB v1.3.0
Today we are releasing a new version of Icinga DB, version 1.3.0. This is a maintenance release, integrating the container setup directly into Icinga DB. Most importantly, first-class support for configuring Icinga DB completely via environment variables has been...
How to monitor your first Host with Icinga Director
Creating a new Host within the Icinga 2 configuration files is fairly easy. Basically you only have add an object of the type "Host" to a config file and reload Icinga 2. Doing the same with Icinga Director is even easier, you don't even have to bother with terminal...
Keeping up with Icinga Web Permissions and Restrictions
This blogpost is a followup to the blogpost Icinga Web permissions and restrictions (how do they work, examples). In Icinga web 2 version 2.9, there are two cool updates to Permissions and Restrictions, namely Role Inheritance and Permission Refusal as explained by...
Releasing Icinga 2.13.0
Today we're releasing our next major version of Icinga 2. Icinga 2.13 includes many long awaited enhancements and bug fixes, but also a lot of smaller changes. Units of measurement This release adds a bunch of new and improved UoMs (Units of measurement) to Icinga 2....
Our Workflow for Security Releases using GitHub Security Advisories
We recently started using GitHub Security Advisories as part of our workflow for pushing out security releases. This post will give a brief introduction on how they work, how we use them, some of their limitations, and how we overcome them. We are still experimenting...
Icinga 2.12.5 + 2.11.10: Security Releases
Today we are releasing Icinga 2.12.5 and 2.11.10, including two security fixes that may lead to privilege escalation for authenticated API users. Depending on your setup, manual intervention beyond installing the new versions may be required, so please read the...
Releasing Icinga Web v2.9.0
Today we’re announcing the general availability of Icinga Web v2.7.5, v2.8.3 and v2.9.0. Besides the compatibility with IcingaDB, the v2.9.0 release includes major enhancements to access control, support for PHP 8, the possibility to stay logged in during browser...
Monitor Windows without an Icinga Agent
Looking to monitor your Windows systems with Icinga, but aren't allowed to install non-Microsoft certified software on them? Then you are in the right place. After all, you want to monitor your systems somehow. But you don't want to lose the support from MS...
Introducing dark and light theme modes
We are constantly working to make Icinga even better by adding new useful features. We will be releasing Icinga Web 2 version 2.9.0 very soon. This version will have many new interesting features. Update: The initial version of this article mentioned v2.9 as target...
Icinga for Windows: Hyper-V and Cluster Plugin Release v1.0
After months of developing and testing, we are finally ready to announce the release of our Icinga for Windows Hyper-V and Cluster plugins version v1.0 today! We collected lots of feedback, tested different approaches and re-designed some plugins to ensure we can...
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