Happy new year from team Icinga! Hope you all had relaxing Xmas holidays :)
December brought us many cool things, as new releases for the Elastic stack integration, community integrations and themes and also worth a mention, a new platform for monitoring-portal.org.
Icingabeat 6.1 and Logstash Output 1.2
Blerim has released new versions for Icingabeat and the Logstash output, including support for Elastic Stack 6.x.
This release also adds packages to our official packages.icinga.com repository. You’ll also recognise the online documentation for Icingabeat on
Meanwhile Alba is testing it already …
Playing with the "Icinga Output Plugin" for @logstash – creating services that were not previously defined in @icinga on runtime. Sooo cool!!! pic.twitter.com/ji2dX4aNkz
— Alba Ferri (@branvan2k) December 19, 2017
Icinga Camp Berlin 2018
It isn’t far, so make sure to plan your trip to Berlin on March, 8th 2018 and register now.
Just submitted my #icingacamp Berlin talk, "Dev and ops stories: Integrations++" … where is yours? https://t.co/rSN8xpJDKR #monitoringlove
— Michael Friedrich (@dnsmichi) December 20, 2017
New monitoring-portal.org platform
It started out as an idea during the Xmas holidays, and has become reality starting 2018: A new home for #monitoringlove enthusiasts built with love on Discourse. You’ll immediately recognise how easy it is to ask a question, or join existing discussions.
While maintaining this platform is entirely my private fun and pride, the Icinga project benefits from it, and as such relies on a great community place to share ideas and passion. Problem solved for me impersonating the community manager for Icinga – see you around :)
Short cut
- Nicolai released the Map module for Icinga Web 2 v1.0.4.
- Thomas wrote about a new Icinga diagnostics script.
- Lennart shared details on using the puppet-icingaweb2 module for automated Icinga Web 2 setups.
- Hagen built his own traffic light for Icinga alerts and showed us how it looks like.
- Christian showed us how to monitor DNS with Icinga 2.
Just awesome
We’ve already seen the “always green” theme for Xmas, now Carsten shared the “unicorn” theme with us. And I have to admit, this looks really fancy.
#34c3 was monitored with Icinga :)
Committing to the @c3noc five 42s SLA – distributed L2 monitoring with our friends @debian @ansible @icinga @PrometheusIO #tschunktime pic.twitter.com/9xKa05btuD
— dorkmatt (@dorkmatt) December 27, 2017
Say hi to Michael and Casey on team Icinga :)
Please send a warm welcome to @mcktr55 and Casey on team #icinga :-) https://t.co/6lK11lbTVn https://t.co/JvJXGW6LWj pic.twitter.com/puGpySi6Eo
— Icinga (@icinga) December 21, 2017
Getting your contribution merged is an awesome feeling.
My first pull request for @icinga was merged into the master branch! 🎉 Just some documentation but I am still happy about it 😀 #opensource
— Max (@ekeih) December 18, 2017
Living the documentation spirit, Nicolai does.
https://t.co/3p2vnFcWMm A little christmas present for the map module: Improved documentation #monitoringlove #documentation #icinga
— Nicolai Buchwitz (@NicolaiBuchwitz) December 25, 2017
Lennart is going a deep dive into the Icinga book version 2.0 – hooray!
Die letzten beiden Tage über 70 Bilder für Icinga Web 2 v2.5 aktualisiert. #icingabook
— Lennart Betz (@52zacken) December 30, 2017
Grafana graphs using Carsten’s module for Icinga Web 2 – what else to say, #monitoringlove
To Icinga 😍😍 Really love Grafana! pic.twitter.com/WRUa78dwK2
— SomoIT_net (@somoit_net) December 20, 2017
Speaking of Grafana, scaling Icinga in large environments is key to to your monitoring.
@icinga-Fakt: Bei 15232 Hosts und 187386 Services, muss die #Graphite-Instanz im Schnitt 14.000 iops schreibend machen können. #icinga2 pic.twitter.com/F1Sh3ZOuvf
— Jens Schanz (@jensschanz) December 22, 2017
Marianne is working on packages for OpenIndiana, rumours say this will be upstreamed then too :)
Up & running for the first time 💚 #icinga2 #OpenIndiana – now testing can take place! pic.twitter.com/APF6henglV
— Ihre BOFHaftigkeit (@sys_adm_ama) December 14, 2017
FreeBSD journal published an article about Icinga :)
The Nov/Dec 2017 issue of the #FreeBSD Journal is now available. Don't miss articles on What is Icinga?, Monitoring ZFS, and more. https://t.co/jEjeK1eu3Y
— FreeBSD Journal (@freebsdjournal) December 21, 2017
Klaus explores the capabilities of the Icinga 2 DSL …
I <3 @Icinga 2!
to run procs_check as root just do
object CheckCommand "procs-root" {
import "procs"
command = [ "sudo", PluginDir + "/check_procs" ]
}— Klaus Maria Pfeiffer (@hoedlmoser) December 25, 2017
Migrations all the way …
Tons of progress on my weekend+ project of replacing Nagios2+NRPE with Icinga2+SNMP. Gave me a much-needed refresher in SNMP and learned how to use Icinga2 (including Service templates!). Just have a few final process-level checks to write before I can finally shut off Nagios 🎉
— Elizabeth K. Joseph (@pleia2) December 26, 2017
In the end, we all want to be just happy monitoring users :)
Ich mache inzwischen alles mit #icinga2 und bin sehr glücklich damit. 👍
— Ihre BOFHaftigkeit (@sys_adm_ama) December 26, 2017
See you on twitter, the forums and live in Berlin!