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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 Icinga directly to ServiceNow: Notifications are automatically converted into incidents—no manual copying and pasting required. This guide shows you what you need and how to install and configure both components. The most important...
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 Alertmanager-Icinga Bridge does: It receives alerts from Alertmanager and automatically creates them as services in Icinga. In this post, we'll explain why we're continuing to develop the Signalilo tool under a new name, what changes have...
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 show you what the Collection can do, where its limitations lie, and how to set up a test environment in just a few minutes using the Full-Stack Playbook. Introduction to the Collection If you run a monitoring system like Icinga, you...
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 ` JsonDecode() ` was given an additional argument, which was inadvertently passed on to the DSL as well. To make matters worse, this argument was defined as a required argument—which caused existing calls to the function to fail. Fix...
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 updates apply only to authenticated API users. Find out here exactly what's affected, how high the risk is for your setup, and how to update in just a few minutes. The Vulnerabilities in Detail GHSA-vj39-ww8j-vvx5 ( CVE pending)...
Zuletzt aktualisiert: 25.06.2026 · Lesezeit: 2-3 Minuten Icinga Director auf Ubuntu 26.04 installieren geht schneller als gedacht, wenn man weiß, wo die Stolpersteine liegen. Diese Anleitung führt dich Schritt für Schritt durch Installation, Datenbank-Setup und Erstkonfiguration, bis du über den Director eigene Hosts und Services ausrollen kannst. Das wichtigste auf einen Blick Du brauchst eine laufende Icinga 2 Instanz mit aktivem API-Feature als Basis Der Director bekommt eine eigene...
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 wizard in the browser, including connecting to Redis and the Icinga 2 API. The Most Important Points in 30 Seconds Icingaweb2 and Icinga DB Web are installed via the official Icinga APT repository. A single package (icingadb-web)...
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. In around 20 minutes, you have a clean monitoring basis on which you can build directly. The most important points in 30 seconds Installation runs exclusively via the official Icinga repository, the Ubuntu standard packages are...
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 managed via Icinga Web. Step-by-step instructions for installing the Icinga Director on RHEL 10.1 This guide explains how to install the Icinga Director on RHEL 10.1, including database setup, creating a resource in Icinga Web,...
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 guide to installing Icinga2 and Icinga DB, you can continue directly here. If not, I recommend you read my previous guide first. Step-by-step instructions for installing Icingaweb2 and Icinga DB Web on RHEL 10.1 This guide will walk...
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 data backend. Step-by-step instructions for installing Icinga and Icinga DB on RHEL 10.1 An important note before starting: The official RHEL repositories of Icinga are part of the Icinga Repository Subscription. It is not possible...
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...