A safer way to run privileged Windows checks with SystemRunner If you’ve been monitoring Windows for a while, you’ve probably seen this pattern: some checks must run as LocalSystem (S-1-5-18), and the “quick fix” is to run the Icinga Agent itself as SYSTEM. It works. It’s also a really bad idea. Why? SystemRunner takes a…
Read MoreWelcome to version 4.45 of our NetEye v4 Unified Monitoring Platform. As you log in, you’ll be welcomed by the serene winter landscape of St. Magdalena/Santa Maddalena in Villnösser Tal/Val di Funes. The small village rests quietly beneath the dramatic Geisler peaks, blanketed in fresh snow that softens every contour. Morning light brushes the slopes,…
Read MoreThis document describes the steps required to build, configure, and operate a Podman container based on php:8.2-cli, with the SNMP extension enabled, intended for executing monitoring plugins within a NetEye/Icinga environment. Create a Containerfile with the following contents: FROM docker.io/php:8.2-cliRUN apt-get update && \ apt-get install -y libsnmp-dev snmp && \ rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* &&…
Read MoreWith the upgrade to NetEye 4.44, we’ve added a lot of new features (https://www.neteye-blog.com/2025/10/neteye-4-44-release-notes/) and, from my point of view, one of the most relevant is the introduction of Elastic Stack 9. This Elasticsearch major release (https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack/9.0/elastic-stack-release-notes.html) includes some new functionalities such as: ESQL Lookup Joins , LogsDB Index Mode Optimizations, etc. During various migrations…
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The NetEye Conference 2025 in Verona offered a full day of deep-dive sessions, live use cases, and peer-to-peer learning – all centered around one guiding theme: Intelligent Operations in Action. Our community explored how observability, cybersecurity, and service management converge to create smarter, more resilient IT ecosystems. Keynotes by Sebastiano Barisoni and Matteo Meucci set…
Read MoreAmong the several plugins that Grafana provides is Node Graph, a useful plugin for visualizing elements and relationships between them. This plugin, as described in the article: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/panels-visualizations/visualizations/node-graph/ , can be used to represent: To verify its usefulness within NetEye, we adapt it to the data present in Icinga. In this POC, we import our…
Read MoreImportant: Icinga2 security update Type/Severity NetEye Product Security has rated this update as having a High security impact. Topic An update for the icinga2 packages is now available for NetEye 4. Security Fix for NetEye 4.44 CVEs The CVEs include three different vulnerabilities: an Information Disclosure, a Denial of Service and a Limited Privilege Escalation. For a detailed…
Read MoreSuppose you’re using lots of maps to make the navigation of your IT infrastructure more user friendly for your (management) user who’s not at all technically minded. That person wants to see the IT status of their systems in graphical form, but there’s a problem in that the IT assets change over time, and it…
Read MoreDuring one of my last sessions with a customer I had to deal with a very particular use case, where I couldn’t use the solution presented in my previous blog post (https://www.neteye-blog.com/2025/08/massive-update-of-the-icinga-custom_var-host-services/). In this new scenario, the customer wanted to clean up a custom_var linked to a service, whose value, inherited from the host, had…
Read MoreImportant: Elastic Stack security update Type/Severity NetEye Product Security has rated this update as having a High security impact. Topic An update for the elasticsearch and kibana packages is now available for NetEye 4. Security Fix for NetEye 4.44 CVEs The CVEs include three XSS vulnerabilities and two Broken Access Control vulnerabilities. For a detailed overview of the…
Read MoreWelcome to version 4.44 of our NetEye v4 Unified Monitoring Platform. As you log in, you’ll be greeted by a crisp view of Lago di Braies, where summer’s warmth yields to autumn. The larches are turning brilliant shades of yellow and burnt orange, forming a vivid contrast with the deep green of the pines and…
Read MoreIn NetEye, ‘business processes’ is a module used to model and monitor the business process hierarchy to obtain a high-level view of the status of critical applications. In short, they allow monitoring controls of individual components to be aggregated into a single screen, creating customized dashboards and generating notifications at the process level, rather than…
Read MoreIf you’ve worked with Elastic APM, you’re probably familiar with the APM Server: a component that collects telemetry data from APM Agents deployed across your infrastructure. But what happens when you need to segregate that data by tenant, especially in complex network zones? Let’s walk through a real-world scenario and how we tackled it. The…
Read MoreSatellite config creation in HA mode using zone names with whitespaces We’ve addressed an issue where running the neteye satellite config create for a satellite configured in HA mode having whitespaces in the Zone name prevented the procedure to successfully execute. List of updated packages To solve the issues mentioned above, the following packages have…
Read MoreFamiliar with the feeling when a critical system’s backup and recovery time is measured in hours? Operations teams rely heavily on the availability of monitoring data, so scheduling long periods of downtime is simply not an option. We recently faced this exact challenge: we had to schedule a multi-hour downtime because our MariaDB database had…
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