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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 often better suited for large-scale status monitoring of the basic infrastructure. However, both solutions do not have to be contrary to each other, but complementary. In this article, we will look at how we can integrate both...
The term observability is on everyone's lips and is often touted as a modern solution to dusty old, static monitoring. All manufacturers offer it, all users need it, preferably a lot and right now. However, if you read through product descriptions and blog articles on this topic, you will notice that there is no really uniform definition of the term. What do I mean by that? Depending on what you read, observability is sometimes “an approach to improving observability” or “an element of modern...
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 additional operational complexity, no matter how great you think Grafana is. In addition, the installation of the grafana-image-renderer is not always trivial. So we took a closer look at the topic and tried to create an Icinga Web module...