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...
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...
Endpoint Monitoring with Icinga
Monitoring with Icinga primarily focuses on servers and infrastructure. But there are also the people operating these systems from their workstations and laptops. If a server can be accessed from a machine with an outdated operating system, the patch level of the...
Icinga Quality Time – Our Yearly Teamevent
Last week, it was that time again: our annual Icinga team event took place. Let’s get this out of the way first: yes, that’s the entire Icinga team in the photo. For some, it might be surprising how small we actually are. What you see here is the core team, the people...
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 (v1.13.1). Breaking Change for Scheduled-Task plugin With Icinga for...
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...
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 Monitoring Tools for Microservices: What to Look For Microservice...
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...
Icinga 2 Insights With Event Streams
There are many ways to interact with the data that Icinga 2 collects, processes, and produces. The most common is probably Icinga Web, which displays checks in all the colors of a traffic light. Icinga 2 also comes with several metrics or performance data writers. But...
Releasing Icinga Web v2.11.5 and 2.12.3, Icinga Director 1.10.4 and 1.11.4, Icinga Reporting 1.0.3
Update (2025-03-26 16:45:00 UTC) We released a hotfix release for Icinga Web 2.11 and 2.12 afterwards. Please install 2.11.6 and 2.12.4, respectively. -- Today we release three updates, each for an integral component of Icinga, which all close a total of five security...
Looking for a PRTG Alternative? Here’s Why You Should Consider Icinga
If you’re reading this, chances are high you’re looking for a PRTG alternative and considering switching from Paessler PRTG to Icinga. Maybe it’s the rising costs of PRTG, or maybe you want a monitoring solution that gives you more flexibility and control. Whatever...
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