One of Icinga’s greatest strengths is its ability to integrate with other systems and use those systems’ data to enrich monitoring. It can write time-series data to InfluxDB, Graphite or even Prometheus with our icinga2-exporter. It can talk to different data sources so that hosts and services can be created and managed automatically. This means that lots of manual work is eliminated.
Nobody likes resolving merge/rebase/cherry-pick conflicts. I also don’t, but I’ve found a scheme how to reduce the built-in headache. In this post I’m going to share my findings as well as practical examples.
We’re excited to announce our next major release for Icinga Director, version 1.10! The new release comes with plenty of fixes, but also with some nice new features. Check out the full changelog for all details.
With Icinga Reporting you can create custom SLA reports for hosts and services that are monitored with Icinga. The module for Icinga Web fetches existing data and takes planned downtimes into account. You can filter for certain hosts and services as well as set custom thresholds to highlight unmet SLAs visually. You decide if you want to create the reports either manually or automatically, for example every week or month. The report then is sent to you as a PDF via email.
Similar, to the monitoring module in Icinga Web, Icinga DB Web also provides list views for hosts and services to provide the most common columns to reduce the backend query load.
After some drawbacks we are very happy today to finally release Icinga for Windows v1.10.0! The past weeks we have spent a lot of time to polish this release, test many different aspects and optimize the user experience in general. Please make sure to read the upgrading docs carefully, before upgrading to v1.10.0. Otherwise, your installation might not work as expected, or Icinga for Windows might not load anymore.
This time I want to show a feature that’s not obvious at first sight, but can save a lot of time, when you’re intending to create UI mockups with realistic data.
Today’s blog post will give an insight into one of the many things that improved with Icinga DB: how host and service history is written to the database, both by the old IDO feature, as well as what has changed with Icinga DB and how this leads to more reliable results.
