Icinga

Nuremberg, Germany
2009
Mar 13, 2023   |  By Guest Author
Tenacta Group is an Italian company with a portfolio of worldwide leading brands that share the same mission: to develop designs and technological innovations that will improve people’s quality of life. We have been using Icinga since its early days, specifically version 1 after the fork from Nagios. We have continued using Icinga because we like its direction for future improvements and appreciate the support of the Icinga community.
Mar 8, 2023   |  By Julian Brost
To speed up startup and reload times of Icinga 2, we have already put a lot of effort into improving the configuration load performance and still continue to do so for the next major release. In this blog post, I will share the story of one particular issue we found, how we addressed it and what impact this has.
Mar 1, 2023   |  By Feu Mourek
It’s the year 2009, a nice weekend in late spring and a small group of monitoring enthusiasts comes together to discuss how to move forward with the idea of forking Nagios. The Icinga team in 2009, just to set the mood. Plans were made to make it faster, easier, more scalable, and simply better. Of course, such a project has a lot of hurdles to take – the most important one was of course: the name.
Feb 9, 2023   |  By Blerim Sheqa
If you’re an Icinga user, you already know the importance of having a streamlined and efficient configuration management process. With the release of Icinga Director Branches v1.3, this process just got even better! In this latest version, Icinga Director introduces several enhancements to its branching system, making it even easier to manage and deploy your Icinga 2 configurations.
Feb 1, 2023   |  By Timm Ortloff
When operating a larger business or project, one problem comes quickly apparent: How can I know that my servers and their applications are up and the performance is good across the board? The answer is, of course, monitoring software.
Jan 25, 2023   |  By Henrik Triem
The news have been full of coverage: ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer), the prototype chatbot released by OpenAI in November 2022 seems to hail in a new era of information sourcing, schooling and learning, and interacting with a computer. The service sprinted to one million users in five days after the launch, with many more following until this date.
Jan 17, 2023   |  By Angelika Bang
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 yours, of any size and different kinds of industries. Some of them are our long-standing customers, others have just recently profited from migrating from another solution to Icinga.
Dec 21, 2022   |  By Angelika Bang
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 yours, of any size and different kinds of industries. Some of them are our long-standing customers, others have just recently profited from migrating from another solution to Icinga.
Dec 15, 2022   |  By Ravi Srinivasa
In this blog post I will introduce you to filtering, based on deep custom variables in Icinga DB Web. In Icinga Web 2 monitoring module, it is not possible to filter deep custom variables. Example of deep custom variables involving dictionaries and arrays: This is because in the database (IDO) the suitable structure for the custom variables is not available. The dictionaries and arrays in the custom variables are saved in json format as shown below.
Dec 7, 2022   |  By Yonas Habteab
With Icinga DB Web you can filter the list views in a very elegant and lovely manner. If you haven’t tried this search bar yet, it’s time to begin now. Unlike in the monitoring module, where you have to tediously filter the views based on clicking through all the possible selections available to you, in Icinga DB Web it’s a very simple thing where you can do it instantly.
Sep 19, 2022   |  By Icinga
We tackled the question "Why is montioring important?" before, now it is time to take a look at Icinga.
Aug 12, 2022   |  By Icinga
Learn more about why monitoring mattes and how we can help you.
Aug 4, 2022   |  By Icinga
Meerkat is an Open Source dashboarding tool, written in Go and javascript. It allow users to drag and drop Icinga API objects onto a background, plays sounds and even embed videos. Dave will give a tour of its features and a guide on setup and usage, with real-world examples.
Aug 4, 2022   |  By Icinga
In recent years, the number of servers, virtual machines, services, applications, etc. that our customers and users monitor with Icinga has increased significantly. For very large environments, the IDO can be a performance bottleneck. With Icinga DB we’ve rethought everything to allow users to monitor massive amounts of data and bring exclusive features that weren’t possible before.
Aug 4, 2022   |  By Icinga
During the past months we’ve been in direct contact with enterprises to understand their Icinga story. As result we created multiple customer stories which differ in their use case. I want to exemplify how Icinga meets different requirements of organizations and helps them cover their monitoring demands.
Apr 12, 2022   |  By Icinga
Why should you monitor you systems with Icinga?
Feb 3, 2022   |  By Icinga
We would like to share with you all the news around Icinga for Windows v1.8.0, which will be released on February 8th 2022 and provide a Q&A to get you started!
Dec 15, 2021   |  By Icinga
AMA Responses: Icinga Web 2.
Nov 17, 2021   |  By Icinga

00:10 Will there be any further Windows development in Icinga 2 except for the Windows agent part?

01:10 Are the Windows plugins considered to be deprecated?

02:12 Is it possible to only have the Icinga agent and the plugins without having the whole Icinga for Windows framework?

Nov 5, 2021   |  By Icinga

00:10 Why are there some issues and PRs that have not been looked at for some time?

01:34 Are there plans to increase the number of people working on the Director?

Monitor your network, servers and applications in a secure and reliable way. Keep an eye on your infrastructure and stay up-to-date with current issues.

Icinga is an enterprise grade open source monitoring system which keeps watch over networks and any conceivable network resource, notifies the user of errors and recoveries and generates performance data for reporting. Scalable and extensible, Icinga can monitor complex, large environments across dispersed locations.

Icinga is a fork of Nagios® and is backward compatible. So, Nagios® configurations, plugins and addons can all be used with Icinga. Though Icinga retains all the existing features of its predecessor, it builds on them to add many long awaited patches and features requested by the user community.