The Open Source Monitoring Conference · 📆 Nov. 17–19, 2026 · 📍Nuremberg · ⭐️20th Anniversary Edition
The Open Source Monitoring Conference · 📆 Nov. 17–19, 2026 · 📍Nuremberg · ⭐️20th Anniversary Edition

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What is the ELK Stack? Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana Explained Simply

What is the ELK Stack? Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana Explained Simply

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Last updated: July 9, 2026 · Reading time: 2–4 minutes Anyone involved in monitoring, log analysis, or searching through large amounts of data will sooner or later come across the ELK Stack. The ELK Stack consists of three different tools: Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. Find out what's behind it all, how the three components work together, and why the stack is completely free for self-hosting in our article here. An Overview of the Three Components ELK is not a single software program,...

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What is Wazuh?

What is Wazuh?

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Last updated: July 2, 2026 · Reading time: 3–4 minutes Wazuh is an open-source security platform that combines log management, intrusion detection, vulnerability assessment, and compliance monitoring all in one place. At NETWAYS, we’re getting more and more questions...

Security Release for Icinga 2 v2.16.2, 2.15.4, 2.14.9

Security Release for Icinga 2 v2.16.2, 2.15.4, 2.14.9

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Today's security update for Icinga2 addresses several security vulnerabilities. Two of them are particularly critical. An update is absolutely necessary. An unauthenticated attacker can use this to take over or crash Icinga 2 processes over the network. The remaining...

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Installing Icinga Director on Ubuntu 26.04

Installing Icinga Director on Ubuntu 26.04

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Last updated: June 25, 2026 · Reading time: 2–3 minutes Installing Icinga Director on Ubuntu 26.04 is faster than you might think, as long as you know where the pitfalls are. This guide walks you through the installation, database setup, and initial configuration step...

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Last updated: 18.06.2026 Installing Icingaweb2 and Icinga DB Web on Ubuntu 26.04 is the logical next step after the basic installation of Icinga 2 and Icinga DB. This guide walks you through the package installation, creating the web database, and the entire setup...

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Last updated: 11.06.2026 Icinga mit Icinga DB auf Ubuntu 26.04 LTS installieren: diese Anleitung führt dich Schritt für Schritt durch die komplette Grundinstallation. From the integration of the Icinga repository to the Redis-based IcingaDB setup and the Node Wizard....

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Last updated: 28.05.2026 Imagine you have to install the same packages, start services and adjust configurations on 10 servers. Manually via SSH, with copy-paste commands and countless error searches. Ansible, an open source tool developed primarily by Red Hat,...

Install Icinga Director on RHEL 10.1

Install Icinga Director on RHEL 10.1

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Last updated: 21.05.2026 You no longer want to manage your Icinga configuration exclusively via configuration files? The Icinga Director makes exactly this possible: As a web-based configuration module, hosts, services and templates can be conveniently created and...

Install Icingaweb2 and Icinga DB Web on RHEL 10.1

Install Icingaweb2 and Icinga DB Web on RHEL 10.1

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Last updated: 07.05.2026 For many users, a graphical user interface is indispensable. With Icinga Web, Icinga2 provides the graphical user interface via which checks, hosts and status messages can be clearly visualized and managed. If you have already completed my...

Install Icinga with Icinga DB on RHEL 10.1

Install Icinga with Icinga DB on RHEL 10.1

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Last updated: 30.04.2026 This guide will walk you through the complete installation of Icinga 2 with Icinga DB on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 - from repository setup to the running monitoring stack. You get a cleanly set up Icinga stack with Icinga DB as a modern...

Integrate Icinga and Prometheus

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Last updated: 23.04.2026 Icinga and Prometheus are both excellent monitoring solutions. However, the focus of the tools is different. When it comes to monitoring real-time metrics or short-lived services such as containers, Prometheus is the tool of choice. Icinga is...

Install Icinga Director on Ubuntu 24.04

Install Icinga Director on Ubuntu 24.04

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Last updated: 16.04.2026 You no longer want to manage your Icinga configuration exclusively via configuration files? The Icinga Director makes exactly that possible: As a web-based configuration module for Icinga 2, hosts, services and templates can be conveniently...