We are witnessing a deep transformation within the NetEye 4 core: Icinga Web 2 will move from the Zend Framework to a totally new library called IPL (Icinga PHP Library). This change is already underway in the NetEye 4.3 release with the new version of the Director module. The Icinga team has already partially introduced… Read More
In one of the latest releases of the EventHandler module for NetEye 4 we introduce, for the first time, a completely customized form element. In order to satisfy certain EventHandler usage constraints, we needed to create a drop-down element that allows the user to enter a custom value in addition to choosing one of the… Read More
As already mentioned in my other blog posts, NetEye 4 is based on Icinga Web 2, a powerful PHP framework. During the development of some of our custom NetEye modules for Icinga Web 2, we needed to include some new, custom jQuery plugins to create a neat new effect in the GUI. For example, with… Read More
The new release of NetEye 4 brings with it the Grafana scripted dashboard concept. If you have lots of metric names, it can be annoying to have to constantly create new dashboards. But if they change in a defined pattern (e.g., new servers), you can use scripted dashboards to create those dashboards dynamically using JavaScript. … Read More
– Fixed: Thruk does not write cronjob on start (NETHRUK-203)
Both EriZone and NetEye 4 are capable to work on Android or iOS mobile devices. As many of you already known, mobile browsers work differently from their desktop version and could happen that your application works flawlessly on desktop, but something is broken on mobile. What can you do in this case to understand the… Read More
Plotly is a useful and complete open source tool that allow you to compose, edit and share interactive data visualizations. Built atop D3.js, Plotly is one of the most common libraries used for browser-based graphing. My aim was to create a nice-looking dashboard with four time-based graphs. I was searching for a complete, easy-to-implement and free-to-license JavaScript… Read More
Grafana is an open source dashboard tool that helps users to easily create and edit dashboards. Grafana uses Golang as a backend and Angular as frontend. It is quite a large codebase and supports a large number of options for its components (data sources, options, panels, etc.). Grafana’s stylesheet is written using the Sass CSS extension… Read More
Are you looking for some guidelines on how to create new JavaScript functions in Icinga Web 2? This article will show you the necessary structure your function should have in order to compile correctly with Icinga. If you’ve already looked at some example functions within the existing Icinga JS code, you will have noticed that… Read More
Icinga Web 2 is a powerful PHP framework for web applications in a clean, minimal design. It’s fast, responsive, accessible and easily extensible with modules. It can be installed quickly and easily from packages found in the official package repositories (see the resource links at the bottom of this blog post). Besides the global configuration… Read More