When I first tried Claude Design, shortly after it was released, I wasn't impressed. As an every day Figma user, I missed the option to manipulate elements directly, especially for fine tuning...
How to Make Claude Your UI Design Companion
When I first tried Claude Design, shortly after it was released, I wasn't impressed. As an every day Figma user, I missed the option to manipulate elements directly, especially for fine tuning...
Icinga Director 1.12 Release
Icinga Director 1.12 is out now. Icinga Director 1.12.0 finally gives custom variables full support for dictionaries, fixes a long standing bug that broke user group restores, and raises the module's minimum requirements to match the rest of the Icinga Web ecosystem....
Icinga vs Checkmk: Setup, Cost, Flexibility and Support
Icinga and Checkmk are the two open-source monitoring tools that turn up most often on the same shortlist. Both monitor IT infrastructure, and on a feature list they look close to interchangeable. In practice they are built on different assumptions, and those...
Using writable bind mounts with Icinga 2 in rootless Podman
Running Icinga 2 in a rootless Podman container is pretty straightforward, it works just the same as on Docker, so all the examples on our Docker Hub page work as expected. For example this one to generate certificates and initialize the master configuration: podman...
Icinga Web SSO walkthrough
The ability to log into all corporate applications with one username and password is pretty convenient, even compared to a password manager. As a benefit, the IT department can centrally enforce one desired two-factor auth mechanism. Now we, Icinga, also provide a...
Consulting on Site: An Icinga Engagement near Basel
Not all monitoring work happens remotely. Some of it means packing a bag, taking the train across three countries, and sitting down with the customer's team. This is a report from a week-long Icinga consulting engagement for a customer near Basel, covering the journey...
Opsgenie End of Life: Where Open-Source Alerting Stands in 2026
Atlassian stops supporting Opsgenie on April 5, 2027. New sales ended on June 4, 2025, and data left in the platform after the support date gets deleted. If Icinga pushes alerts into Opsgenie today, that route has an expiry date, and so does every on-call rotation and...
Releasing Icinga 2 v2.16.5 and v2.15.6
Today, we are announcing the availability of Icinga 2 v2.16.5 and v2.15.6. These releases contains some security enhancements that fix a couple of minor vulnerabilities. The release for v2.16.5 also contains a bugfix for a regression in the IcingaDB feature that was...
Icinga Director: Targeted Health Checks and Sync Rule/Import Source Deletes from CLI
Icinga Director's CLI commands have supported import sources and sync rules for a long time, which includes listing, checking and running them. Before Icinga Director v1.11.6 two things you couldn't do from the CLI, though, were narrowing a health check down to a...
Integrating Icinga and Prometheus
Guest post by Markus Opolka, Senior Consultant at NETWAYS. Originally published on the NETWAYS blog as "Icinga und Prometheus integrieren" and "Alertmanager-Icinga-Bridge - Ein Signalilo Fork", combined and adapted for the Icinga blog with permission. ____ Icinga and...
Specifics in Packaging Icinga Go Applications
Today's post provides insights into packaging Icinga Go applications and explains why there are seven Icinga DB version 1.5.1 packages. # apt-cache show icingadb | grep 'Version: 1.5.1' Version: 1.5.1-7+debian13 Version: 1.5.1-6+debian13 Version: 1.5.1-5+debian13...
Password Policies in Icinga Web
Icinga Web 2 now ships a PasswordPolicyHook that gives administrators and module developers full control over what constitutes a valid password. Instead of hard-coding a single rule set for every deployment, the hook makes password validation an extension point: any...
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