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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Filebeat and Metricbeat – Visualizing Your First Logs with Elastic and Kibana

Filebeat and Metricbeat – Visualizing Your First Logs with Elastic and Kibana

by | Jul 23, 2026 | ,

Last updated: July 9, 2026 · Reading time: 2–3 minutes Elasticsearch is running, Kibana is set up, but how does the data actually get into the stack? The answer lies in what are known as "Beats": lightweight data collectors that run in the background and forward data to Elasticsearch. The easiest way to get started is with Filebeat and Metricbeat. This article shows you how to set up Filebeat for log files and Metricbeat for system metrics, and how to view both in Kibana. Why use Filebeat...

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

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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...

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

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by | Jul 6, 2026

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 `...

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Observability vs Monitoring

Observability vs Monitoring

by | May 15, 2025

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...

Icinga Web Module for Performance Data Graphs

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by | May 8, 2025

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The Icinga Web Grafana module has found a new home

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by | Mar 30, 2025

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Katello as a package mirror for Icinga

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by | Mar 13, 2025

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NIS 2 – The current status in January 2025

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by | Jan 9, 2025

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by | Nov 28, 2024

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Icinga 2 Security Release – November 2024

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by | Nov 12, 2024

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Data collection with the Support Collector

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by | Sep 18, 2024

Last updated: 22.11.2024 What is the Support Collector and how does it work? The Support Collector offers an easy way to automatically record all important information about a server and the installed software components. A ZIP file is created with just a few...