Monitoring the Unknown in the Service Manager

Monitoring the Unknown in the Service Manager

Nearly every operating system comes with at least one kind of service management. On a Unix-based operating system, this is historically part of the init system. While the specific tools have matured over time and there are changes between operating systems, they are...

Icinga Summit 2024: Share your Knowledge!

Icinga Summit 2024: Share your Knowledge!

The Icinga Summit 2024 isn't just another tech conference – it's an international gathering of monitoring enthusiasts, united by their dedication to open-source software. It’s also a unique opportunity to deepen your Icinga expertise while enjoying a relaxed...

Server-Sent Events: An Overlooked Browser Feature

Server-Sent Events: An Overlooked Browser Feature

In an ever growing world of libraries, frameworks and content packagers, we tend to loose the focus on already available native technology, which comes shipped with tools that we use on a daily basis. One such feature goes by the name of Server-Sent Events and it has...

Security Updates for Icinga Director

Security Updates for Icinga Director

Icinga has published a total of five updates yesterday for Icinga Director and one of its dependencies, the incubator module. Their main purpose is to fix two Cross-Site-Request-Forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities. We treat them with a very high criticality and advice to...

Analyzing configuration problems with Icinga 2

Analyzing configuration problems with Icinga 2

Today, I want to showcase an old, but still very useful, tool when it comes to analyzing and debugging an Icinga 2 configuration: the icinga2 object list command. It can be helpful in a variety of situations, for example when you want to verify that a config change...

University of Bern relies on Icinga Monitoring

University of Bern relies on Icinga Monitoring

We’re proud of our many customers and users around the globe that trust Icinga for critical IT infrastructure monitoring. That’s why we’re now showcasing some of these enterprises with their Success stories. It’s stories from companies or organizations just like...

Icinga Insiders

Icinga Insiders

At OSMC 2023 we conducted the first open usability tests with our community. We gathered many valuable insight, so that we wanted to take this to a new level. We launched Icinga Insiders community to take part and share insights about their experiences with Icinga....

Releasing Icinga v2.14.2

Releasing Icinga v2.14.2

Version 2.14.2 is a hotfix release for master nodes that mainly fixes excessive disk usage caused by the InfluxDB writers. Icinga 2.14.0 introduced a change to the InfluxDB Writer that resulted in InfluxDB storing the data less efficiently. This release restores the...

Icinga DB Web migration made easier

Icinga DB Web migration made easier

For users using monitoring module, migrating their custom dashboards, navigation items and permissions and restrictions to Icinga DB Web has been made easier with the recent Icinga DB Web release (v1.1.1) through its migrate command. Once Icinga DB Web has been...

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