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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 by step, until you can roll out your own hosts and services using the Director. The Most Important Points at a Glance You need a running Icinga 2 instance with the API feature enabled as a basis The Director gets its own...
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: 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, automates precisely these recurring tasks. It works without agents on Linux and Windows systems, uses simple, understandable languages such as YAML or JSON and enables scalable and error-free IT processes. This article shows you the...
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...
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 created and managed via the Icinga web interface without having to manually edit configuration files. No Icinga or Icinga Web installed yet? Then take a look at our instructions for installing Icinga 2 and Icingaweb first....
Last updated: 09.04.2026 Many users not only want to manage their monitoring via the console, but also evaluate it graphically. With Icinga2 and Icinga Web, a modern interface is available for this, in which processes and checks can be conveniently visualized. If you have already read my guide on installing Icinga2 and Icinga DB from the Part 1 of this series you can continue directly here. If not, we recommend starting with the basic installation first. Step-by-step instructions for...
Last updated: 02.04.2026 You want to install Icinga on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and work directly with Icinga DB? Good decision! The new architecture ensures that monitoring data is processed much better than with older backends. Step-by-step instructions for installing Icinga on Ubuntu 24.04 In this guide I will show you step by step how to install and configure Icinga 2 with IcingaDB. Requirements for the installation Before you start installing Icinga on Ubuntu 24.04, your environment should...
This article is about setting up Katello as a package mirror for Icinga. Specifically, Icinga for Windows, Debian / Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other derivatives. In consulting, different products from our portfolio come together again and again, and since we naturally also work on open source projects and want to improve them, such a meeting is always the right starting point. This was also the case recently when I spoke to Christian Stein, the main contact person for Icinga for...