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What can Wazuh do?

What can Wazuh do?

Last updated: August 13, 2026 · Reading time: 7–9 minutes What exactly can Wazuh do? In this article, Leander explains how the open-source security platform processes events, what modules it includes, and how these elements come together in typical everyday scenarios. In the first part of this blog series, he provided a general overview of what Wazuh is and what it's used for. This second part is about getting a feel for what Wazuh can do and developing a technical understanding of how it...

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Ansible and the Elastic Stack

Ansible and the Elastic Stack

Last updated: August 6, 2026 · Reading time: 4–6 minutes In this article, I’d like to introduce you to the Ansible Collection netways.elasticstack, which allows you to automatically deploy and manage Ansible and the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana,...

Alertmanager-Icinga-Bridge – A Signalilo Fork

Alertmanager-Icinga-Bridge – A Signalilo Fork

Last updated: July 30, 2026 · Reading time: 2–3 minutes Alertmanager and Icinga do not communicate with each other by default. If you want to process Prometheus alerts centrally via Icinga, you need a bridge between the two systems. That's exactly what the...

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Ansible Icinga Collection

Ansible Icinga Collection

Last updated: July 16, 2026 · Reading time: 4–6 minutes With Ansible and Icinga, you can automate the setup of your entire monitoring environment. The " netways.icinga " collection brings together eight roles that handle exactly these recurring steps for you. We'll...

Foreman & Katello Update | Fixes, CVEs, and New Releases

Foreman & Katello Update | Fixes, CVEs, and New Releases

Installer Fix and CVE Updates At the Foreman Release Team Meeting on July 1, 2026, it was reported that the previously malfunctioning foreman-installer-source-release is now working again. The issue was resolved by two pull requests that restored compatibility between...

Bug Fix Release: Icinga 2 v2.16.3, v2.15.5, v2.14.10

Bug Fix Release: Icinga 2 v2.16.3, v2.15.5, v2.14.10

Shortly after the release of the latest security updates, there's some news: Users who have enabled the " Json.decode() " feature in their settings were surprised by an unpleasant side effect. As part of one of the security fixes, the internal C++ function `...

What is Wazuh?

What is Wazuh?

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

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...

Installing Icinga Director on Ubuntu 26.04

Installing Icinga Director on Ubuntu 26.04

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...

Installing Icingaweb2 and Icinga DB Web on Ubuntu 26.04

Installing Icingaweb2 and Icinga DB Web on Ubuntu 26.04

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...