Disclaimer: The CVEs referenced below have not yet been publicly disclosed, so details regarding their severity, impact, and potential attack vectors are not available at this time. This post will be updated as soon as additional information becomes publicly available. Update: The CVEs referenced below have now been publicly disclosed, and additional details have been…
Read MoreImportant: Grafana security update Type/Severity NetEye Product Security has rated this update as having a Medium security impact. Topic Updates for the grafana packages are now available for NetEye 4. Security Fix for NetEye 4.50 CVEs Two of the three CVEs are reachable by any low-privileged authenticated user: an oversized request to the Prometheus rule…
Read MoreImportant: Grafana security update Type/Severity NetEye Product Security has rated this update as having a medium security impact. Topic An update for the grafana packages is now available for NetEye 4. Security Fix for NetEye 4.49 and 4.50 Summary Four medium-severity CVEs were fixed (CVSS 4.3–5.4). Three concern permission scoping: alert rules listable from folders a user may…
Read MoreImportant: Grafana security update Type/Severity NetEye Product Security has rated this update as having a high security impact. Topic An update for the grafana packages is now available for NetEye 4. Security Fix for NetEye 4.49 Summary An authenticated user with permission to create or edit alert rules can bypass datasource query authorization by marking an alert rule…
Read MoreOur older customers surely know that, in its earliest releases, NetEye 4 had no support for multitenancy. From a data perspective, there’s just one big bin we throw everything into to be used later. Then, a debate about multitenancy began. Here at Würth Phoenix we’ve discussed at length about the best way to segregate data…
Read MoreThis is that Time of the Year when you begin preparing all your SLA Reports to help you understand how your important services behaved during the year itself. It’s like the end of a horse race, when the bets are settled and you realize whether the bets you placed were right or not. And since…
Read MoreScenario NetEye 4 provides a graphical engine to represent time series monitoring data stored in an Influx database: the Grafana engine accessible through the ITOA menu on the left hand side. Grafana is very powerful: it consists of a dashboard built up of multiple individual panels. A lot of them are native to Grafana, but…
Read MoreWith the introduction of Alyvix Tags in NetEye 4.38, we’ve given users the ability to filter test cases and reports based on their tags, making it easier to focus on the specific test cases that matter to each department or subdivision within a tenant. One of the requests that emerged from this new feature was…
Read MoreOpenShift already has a built-in monitoring suite with Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager. This is all well and good, but what if organizations want to monitor their entire infrastructure, integrating all monitoring results under one umbrella? In this case, it’s necessary to send the metrics somehow from OpenShift to NetEye. In this tutorial, I’ll show you…
Read MoreAs you may have noticed from recent posts from some of my colleagues about “Boosting NetEye CI Speed: Test Parallelization” or “Speeding up the NetEye CI Testing Phase“, we are improving our CI in order to have a reliable, fast system that is able to test all the features we implement in NetEye 4. As…
Read MoreIcinga Director is a powerful configuration tool included in NetEye that streamlines the process of defining and managing monitoring configurations. However, you may encounter issues with duplicate addresses and spaces in hostnames, which can lead to confusion and monitoring inaccuracies. In this post, I’ll discuss these common problems and introduce a Grafana dashboard solution to…
Read MoreHostgroups are a grouping of hosts with similar characteristics such as geographical location, type, severity, environment, operating system, applications and much more. Hostgroups can be created for multiple purposes such as: The default Host Group view is undoubtedly one of the most comfortable and useful ones in NetEye because, for each group, it immediately shows…
Read MoreScenario NetEye 4 is a comprehensive monitoring platform which natively supports Icinga 2 checks on remote hosts and devices. Several Icinga 2 checks support an historical view of the status. An example is the firewall interface performance status below, which displays a Performance Graph: Getting a better overview All the graph data generated by the…
Read MoreAs you all know NetEye uses MariaDB as its database. With the nep-monitoring-core module of the NetEye Extension Packs (NEP), the following aspects of MariaDB are monitored: These checks are performed with a default time interval (check_interval) of 180s. To have real time control of many aspects of the MariaDB database operation, I suggest installing…
Read MoreIn my previous post, we saw how it’s possible to build a simple Grafana Data Source Plugin, which we can use to read data from whatever source we’d like to use. In particular, we used it to read data from a simple web service we created so we could expose data containing some outliers. In…
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