Icinga in Your Observability Stack: Metrics via OpenTelemetry

Icinga 2 in the OpenTelemetry Ecosystem

In this hands-on webinar, we walk you through the OTLPMetricsWriter, the new feature in Icinga 2 v2.16 that exports check plugin performance data as OpenTelemetry-compliant metrics via the OTLP HTTP protocol.

You will see how to enable the writer, point it at an OpenTelemetry Collector or directly at a backend that accepts OTLP, and pipe Icinga metrics into platforms like Prometheus, Grafana Mimir, VictoriaMetrics, Datadog, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Splunk, New Relic, and Dynatrace – using a single configuration object and no intermediate translation layer.

This webinar was held on June 30, 2026. We cover what changes for existing setups: how the OTLPMetricsWriter runs alongside Graphite, InfluxDB, and Icinga DB, and how high availability is handled inside Icinga 2 cluster zones.

In this session, we cover:

• Turning Icinga performance data into OpenTelemetry Gauge metrics
• Configuring the OTLPMetricsWriter for the Collector, Prometheus, and VictoriaMetrics
• Exporting warning, critical, min, and max thresholds as metrics
• Enriching metrics with host and service resource attributes
• Running the OTLPMetricsWriter in HA cluster zones
• Interactive Q&A session

This session is for engineers running Icinga 2 alongside Prometheus, Grafana, or any other OTLP-compatible backend. We focus on configuration, integration paths, and how the OTLPMetricsWriter fits into an existing Icinga setup.