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Icinga Director’s CLI commands have supported import sources and sync rules for a long time, which includes listing, checking and running them. Before Icinga Director v1.11.6 two things you couldn’t do from the CLI, though, were narrowing a health check down to a single object, or deleting an import source or sync rule without opening the web UI. I’ll walk through both, using examples.

Guest post by Markus Opolka, Senior Consultant at NETWAYS. Originally published on the NETWAYS blog as “Icinga und Prometheus integrieren” and “Alertmanager-Icinga-Bridge – Ein Signalilo Fork”, combined and adapted for the Icinga blog with permission. Icinga and Prometheus are both great monitoring solutions, however, their focus is different. In this article, we look at how to integrate both monitoring systems and utilize the strengths of both tools.