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 OpenTelemetry?

What is OpenTelemetry?

by | Oct 22, 2026 | , ,

Last updated: October 22, 2026 · Reading time: 9–13 minutes What is OpenTelemetry? In short: the open, vendor-neutral standard for collecting, processing, and sending metrics, logs, and traces to a backend of your choice. Anyone who deals with monitoring or observability will sooner or later (more likely sooner) come across OpenTelemetry. This is a topic on which there are often differing views and opinions as to what it really entails. In this article, I'll try to provide an overview of the...

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Installing Forgejo on Ubuntu 26.04

Installing Forgejo on Ubuntu 26.04

by | Oct 15, 2026

Last updated: October 15, 2026 · Reading time: 7–8 minutes Installing Forgejo on Ubuntu 26.04 takes less than an hour, and once it's done, you'll have full control over your own Git server. This guide walks you through the preparation, database setup, signature...

Icinga 2 Installation Overview: All Guides for Ubuntu & RHEL

Icinga 2 Installation Overview: All Guides for Ubuntu & RHEL

by | Oct 8, 2026

Last updated: October 1, 2026 · Reading time: 2–3 minutes Icinga 2 is the foundation for reliable open-source monitoring. However, what the Icinga 2 installation looks like depends on the operating system and the components you actually need. This overview brings...

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ServiceNow Integration for Icinga

ServiceNow Integration for Icinga

by | Sep 10, 2026

Last updated: September 10, 2026 · Reading time: 8–9 minutes If Icinga reports a critical outage but no one at the service desk notices it, the alert goes unacted upon. Using the open-source repositories icinga-servicenow and icinga-servicenow-web, you can connect...

Alertmanager-Icinga-Bridge – A Signalilo Fork

Alertmanager-Icinga-Bridge – A Signalilo Fork

by | Jul 30, 2026

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...

Ansible Icinga Collection

Ansible Icinga Collection

by | Jul 16, 2026

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...

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Here you’ll find articles on Ansible, Foreman, and IT infrastructure automation.

Ansible and the Elastic Stack

Ansible and the Elastic Stack

by | Aug 6, 2026

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,...

Ansible Icinga Collection

Ansible Icinga Collection

by | Jul 16, 2026

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

by | Jul 8, 2026

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...

SIEM & Logging

Browse through the articles on Elastic, Graylog, Wazuh, and log management.

What is Wazuh?

What is Wazuh?

by | Jul 2, 2026

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...

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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

by | Jun 30, 2026

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...

Icinga Web Module for Performance Data Graphs

Icinga Web Module for Performance Data Graphs

by | May 8, 2025

After we forked the Grafana module for Icinga Web last year, we thought about whether there are other ways to graphically display Icinga performance data on the web. Running a Grafana instance alongside Icinga just for rendering graphs is a lot of effort and...

The Icinga Web Grafana module has found a new home

The Icinga Web Grafana module has found a new home

by | Mar 30, 2025

We are happy to announce that the Icinga Web Grafana module has found a new home! Originally developed by Carsten (Mikesch-mp), this module is a valuable extension of the Icinga ecosystem and enables the integration of Grafana into the Icinga web interface. By handing...