Today we are happy to announce that we released Icinga for Windows v1.13.0 a couple of days ago. We have already talked about the changes coming to v1.13.0 with the beta blog-post last year in more...

Releasing Icinga for Windows v1.13.0
Today we are happy to announce that we released Icinga for Windows v1.13.0 a couple of days ago. We have already talked about the changes coming to v1.13.0 with the beta blog-post last year in more...

Releasing Icinga 2 v2.14.5
Today, we are announcing the release of Icinga 2 v2.14.5. It fixes a regression that was introduced in v2.14.4 and caused the icinga2 node setup, icinga2 node wizard, and icinga2 pki request commands to fail if a certificate was requested from a node that has to...

Revising Icinga Exchange
Icinga is an open-source project, but it's only become the product we like to use thanks to co-development, brainstorming and suggestions from the community. That's why we created a platform in the past to facilitate the exchange of custom implementations like check...
Icinga 2 Config Sync: DIY Edition
Two weeks ago, Icinga 2 Config Sync: Behind the Scenes explained how the config sync in Icinga 2 works and how you can look behind the scenes. Today, we will put our knowledge from that post to the test and try to manually replicate the config sync. The most important...
Icinga for Windows – Hyper-V and Cluster Plugins Preview
Today we finally have great news to share for everyone using Icinga to monitor Hyper-V and Windows Cluster environments. For quite some time we've been working on multiple new plugins to provide better monitoring option for Hyper-V and Windows Cluster. The new plugins...
Icinga 2 Config Language (DSL): Advanced Apply Rules
As many users of Icinga don't know what the DSL has to offer, I'm going to show you how to use custom variables and apply for rules to make your life easier when writing configuration for your Icinga environment. Idea In this example we will use custom variables on a...
Icinga 2 Config Sync: Behind the Scenes
Today's blog post dives into the internals of Icinga 2 and will give you an overview how the config synchronization works internally. We will take a small cluster as an example and follow the configuration files through the synchronization mechanism. We assume some...
Sol1 Releases Meerkat – Next Generation Dashboards for Icinga 2
This is a guest blogpost from Dave Kempe from Sol1 Meerkat is a lightweight Go and Javascript Icinga 2 client, that connects to the API and displays the status of various checks using elements, like cards, SVGs or images. If you need new users to see at a...
Releasing Icinga 2.11.8 + 2.12.3: Security and small improvements
Today we are releasing the 2.11.8 and 2.12.3 security & bugfix releases. Both versions contain the same changes. They resolve a security vulnerability with revoked certificates being renewed automatically ignoring the CRL, issues with high load on Windows...
How downtimes are displayed in Icinga DB Web
With the development of Icinga DB we not only rebuilt the core of how Icinga stores and reads monitoring data. With a complete rebuild of the monitoring module we took the chance and refined most aspects of the user interface as well. One aspect that got attention is...
Managing the Icinga Director with Ansible
This is a guest blogpost from Sebastian Gumprich from T-Systems Multimedia Solutions GmbH --- Our company is using Icinga for quite some time now to monitor our whole infrastructure and its customers infrastructure. We deploy many Icinga instances for different teams...
Designing Icinga’s Brand Identity
„Thanks for coming! Thanks for supporting us as a company, as a product, as our people! Enjoy the wonderful night!“ A shower of confetti was pouring over the heads of celebrating people just as our CEO Bernd finished his sentence. „I Gotta Feeling“ by Black Eyed Peas...

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