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At the moment I’m working at a tool for migrating Icinga 2 IDO history to Icinga DB . Sure, one could also run IDO and Icinga DB in parallel for one year and then switch to Icinga DB if they only care for the history of the past year. But the disadvantage is: one would have to wait one year. Nowadays (in our quickly changing world) that’s quite a long time.

Creating a new Host within the Icinga 2 configuration files is fairly easy. Basically you only have add an object of the type “Host” to a config file and reload Icinga 2. Doing the same with Icinga Director is even easier, you don’t even have to bother with terminal editors and configuration files. However, what sounds so easy for an experienced user may not be so obvious for beginners.

This blogpost is a followup to the blogpost Icinga Web permissions and restrictions (how do they work, examples). These two additions provide flexibility to manage web access control..

Today we’re releasing our next major version of Icinga 2. Icinga 2.13 includes many long awaited enhancements and bug fixes, but also a lot of smaller changes.

Today we’re announcing the general availability of Icinga Web v2.7.6, v2.8.4 and v2.9.2. All are standard bugfix releases and include fixes found by the community since the latest releases. You can find all issues related to this release on our Roadmap. Please make sure to also check the respective upgrading section in the documentation. This release is accompanied by the minor releases v2.7.6 and v2.8.4 which include the fix for the flattened custom variables.

We recently started using GitHub Security Advisories as part of our workflow for pushing out security releases. This post will give a brief introduction on how they work, how we use them, some of their limitations, and how we overcome them. We are still experimenting with this workflow, but the information could still be helpful for some while others might have suggestions how we could do things better.

Today we’re announcing the general availability of Icinga Web v2.7.5, v2.8.3 and v2.9.0. Besides the compatibility with IcingaDB, the v2.9.0 release includes major enhancements to access control, support for PHP 8, the possibility to stay logged in during browser restarts and a full-fledged date-time picker in all browsers. You can find all issues related to the v2.9.0 release on our Roadmap. Please make sure to also check the respective upgrading section in the documentation.

Looking to monitor your Windows systems with Icinga, but aren’t allowed to install non-Microsoft certified software on them? Then you are in the right place. After all, you want to monitor your systems somehow. But you don’t want to lose the support from MS afterwards, just because you installed a monitoring system on it. Well, today I will show you how to monitor your Windows without having to install the Icinga agent.

If you’re here you probably know the essence of open source already. To us, open source means more than just open source code – it’s also the ethics and the community feeling that goes along with that. For us it means that the people working on Icinga are more than just who we see in our office – Icinga lives from your ideas and contributions. And we want to invite you to join in on the fun!