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Installation Walkthrough

Follow this course to set up your very own, self-hosted monitoring system. At the end you will be able to monitor your servers, networks and applications and receive alerts via email.

Icinga Installation Walkthrough

Core Products

Icinga 2 Docsv2.14.5 Changelog
Icinga Web Docsv2.12.4 Changelog
Icinga DB Docsv1.2.1 Changelog
Icinga DB Web Docsv1.1.3 Changelog
Icinga Director Docsv1.11.4 Changelog

Components

Icinga for Windows Docsv1.13.2 Changelog
Icinga Reporting Docsv1.0.4 Changelog
Icinga Cube Docsv1.3.3 Changelog
Icinga Business Process Modeling Docsv2.5.1 Changelog
Icinga Certificate Monitoring Docsv1.3.2 Changelog
Icinga vSphere® Integration Docsv1.7.1 Changelog
Icinga Web JIRA Integration Docsv1.3.4 Changelog
Icinga Web Graphite Integration Docsv1.2.4 Changelog
Icingabeat Docsv7.17.4 Changelog

Icinga Notifications

Icinga Notifications Docsv0.1.1 Changelog
Icinga Notifications Web Docsv0.1.0 Changelog

Icinga for Kubernetes

Icinga for Kubernetes Docsv0.2.0 Changelog
Icinga for Kubernetes Web Docsv0.2.0 Changelog

Icinga Live Demo

We have several modules installed that will give you an idea about how Icinga feels in a production environment. The demo system gets automatically set to default every now and then, so don’t use it for your production environment.

Latest How-tos from the Blog

Icinga 2 Insights With Event Streams

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...

Managing Multiple Service Instances with a Systemd Generator

Managing Multiple Service Instances with a Systemd Generator

When working with systemd services in Linux, you might encounter situations where multiple instances of a service need to be managed dynamically. When I had to develop a solution to monitor multiple Kubernetes clusters with Icinga for Kubernetes, I ran into exactly...

How to do Agentless Monitoring with check_by_ssh

How to do Agentless Monitoring with check_by_ssh

The fundamentals of Icinga 2 are check plugins. They are being executed and their return value is mapped to either Host or Service objects. Everything else follows on top. These check plugins can be either from the Monitoring Plugins or custom. While their origin does...

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