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Revising Icinga Exchange

Icinga is an open-source project, but it’s only become the product we like to use thanks to co-development, brainstorming and suggestions from the community. That’s why we created a platform in the past to facilitate the exchange of custom implementations like check plug-ins, styles, extensions and bridges to third-party systems. We’re talking about our Exchange Portal, of course.

Common cloud monitoring challenges we can overcome!

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, businesses are moving their operations to the cloud more than ever before. This shift brings incredible benefits like scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency. While it does introduce various common cloud monitoring challenges, there are effective solutions that organizations can implement to ensure optimal performance, security, and cost control.

Understanding Observability, Monitoring, and Telemetry Differences

In the area of IT infrastructure management, three terms often surface: observability, monitoring, and telemetry. These concepts, while interconnected, each play a unique role in maintaining system health and performance. Observability, monitoring, and telemetry form the backbone of any robust IT environment. Yet, their differences and interrelations can sometimes blur, leading to confusion. This article aims to demystify these terms, providing clarity on their distinct roles and how they work together.

Monitoring the Monitoring: Demystifying the Icinga DB Health Check

In this post we will take a look at the icingadb check command built into Icinga 2 for monitoring the health of Icinga DB. If you have already configured it, this blog post will give you some insights on what it actually checks, otherwise, it showcases what useful health checks you are missing out on and should serve as a motivation to enable the check.

How Icinga Powers Worldline's Global Payment Solutions

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.

Icinga Notifications Web: Desktop Notifications

We recently released the beta version of our Notification Web Module, which includes a cool feature that is not yet known to everyone. We named it Desktop Notifications (Browser Push Notifications). With this feature enabled, your browser can send you instant notifications based on your configured event rules—provided you’re logged into Icinga Web.

Icinga Notifications: Custom Sources

One of the advantages of the new Icinga Notifications is that it is more loosely coupled to Icinga 2. This is made possible by the concept of sources, each of which is a possible provider of events for Icinga Notifications to act upon. While the most prominent source would be of the “Icinga” type, there is also the “Other” option, which opens up a huge field of different providers via a simple HTTP-based API.

Getting Started with Icinga: Your All-in-One Guide to Mastering Monitoring

Whether you’re new to Icinga or a seasoned user who thinks they’ve seen it all, some of these resources could surprise you with a few tricks. Let’s dive into the resources that’ll have you saying, “Why didn’t I think of this sooner?” Or send this to someone you would like to rope into the Icinga universe.

Getting Started with Icinga: Your All-in-One Guide to Mastering Monitoring

If you’re looking for a comprehensive guide to getting started with Icinga, you’re in the right place. Whether you’re new to Icinga or a seasoned user who thinks they’ve seen it all, some of these resources could surprise you with a few tricks. Let’s dive into the resources that’ll have you saying, “Why didn’t I think of this sooner?” Or send this to someone you would like to rope into the Icinga universe.

Monitoring domains and DNSSEC properly

First of all, if you own a domain, the following text is for you. In production you obviously want to reduce outages. And an outage of a DNS domain as such takes down all services under that domain, no matter whether your LAMP components are all up and running. At least from users’ perspective. As usually, roughly speaking, monitoring has to “play end user” to properly discover failures end-to-end. At best you have an Icinga satellite (e.g.