Blog Entries

17. 12. 2025 Matteo Cipolletta NetEye

Enabling Self-Service InfluxDB Metrics Migration

Moving time-series data between two NetEye systems is a common, but often underestimated, challenge. Whether driven by infrastructure migrations, platform refactoring, customer onboarding/offboarding, or environment consolidation, the need to relocate InfluxDB metrics reliably and selectively comes up again and again. We created this repository to address that need from a high-level, operational perspective: enabling self-service…

Read More
17. 12. 2025 William Calliari Bug Fixes, NetEye

Bug Fixes for NetEye 4.44 and 4.45

Fix for memory corruption in icinga2 We solved an issue that affected icinga2. If the cleanup of the http sessions in the execute-script endpoint ran during a request, the re-balance in the internal datastructure would corrupt the requests memory, resulting in erroneous behaviors or crashes of icinga2. List of updated packages To solve the issues…

Read More
16. 12. 2025 Davide Sbetti Bug Fixes, NetEye

Bug Fixes for NetEye 4.45

Fix El Proxy Kibana plugin activity We solved an issue that affected the El Proxy Kibana plugin which, in case many Fleet agent policies were associated with an integration, caused a large number of index template updates, possibly resulting in a temporary cluster slowdown. List of updated packages To solve the issues mentioned above, the…

Read More
15. 12. 2025 Juergen Vigna Icinga Web 2, NetEye, Unified Monitoring

Monitoring Your NetApp S3 Object Storage

Introduction to NetApp and S3 NetApp offers a unified data storage system. NetApp’s ONTAP operating system supports a combination of file, block, and object protocols. We can use common storage (disk array), such as NetApp AFF or FAS, and operate it as file, object, and block storage. On an existing ONTAP cluster, we can enable…

Read More
09. 12. 2025 Damiano Chini Bug Fixes, NetEye

Bug Fixes for NetEye 4.45

Fix support for Alyvix Nodes with older versions We solved an issue that could cause Test Cases to be not shown in the Alyvix UI if the Alyvix Nodes supported only API version 3 (i.e. Alyvix Service version <= 2.5). List of updated packages To solve the issues mentioned above, the following packages have been…

Read More
05. 12. 2025 Mattia Codato Bug Fixes, NetEye

Bug Fixes for NetEye 4.45

Fix for Broken Links in the Icinga Web 2 Business Process Module We have resolved an issue that caused broken links within the Business Process module. In certain cases, links pointing to monitoring objects were generated incorrectly, resulting in users being unable to navigate to the relevant monitoring details. This has now been fixed, and…

Read More
05. 12. 2025 Mattia Codato Bug Fixes, NetEye

Bug Fixes for NetEye 4.44

Passive Checks Stuck in Pending During Director Deployments A race condition during Director deployments caused some passive checks to remain in a pending state instead of updating properly. This behavior has now been corrected. With the fix in place, passive checks will transition to the correct state without requiring manual intervention. List of updated packages…

Read More
05. 12. 2025 Mattia Codato Bug Fixes, NetEye

Bug Fixes for NetEye 4.43

Passive Checks Stuck in Pending During Director Deployments A race condition during Director deployments caused some passive checks to remain in a pending state instead of updating properly. This behavior has now been corrected. With the fix in place, passive checks will transition to the correct state without requiring manual intervention. List of updated packages…

Read More
01. 12. 2025 Andrea Mariani NetEye, Unified Monitoring

Running the Icinga Agent as SYSTEM? No Thanks.

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 More
01. 12. 2025 Mattia Codato Downloads / Release Notes, NetEye, Unified Monitoring

NetEye 4.45 Release Notes

Welcome 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 More
27. 11. 2025 Alessandro Paoli NetEye

Deploying a Podman Container for NetEye Plugin Execution

This 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 More
24. 11. 2025 Attilio Broglio Log-SIEM, NetEye

How to Fix Transformation Problems After Upgrading to Elasticsearch 9.0

With 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…

Read More
12. 11. 2025 Alberto Debiasi Events, NetEye

Highlights from the NetEye Conference 2025: When Intelligent Operations Become Reality 

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 More
28. 10. 2025 Attilio Broglio ITOA, NetEye, Unified Monitoring

Grafana – Node Graph and Icinga

Among 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 More
23. 10. 2025 Gianluca Piccolo Bug Fixes, NetEye

NetEye 4 – Security Advisory (Icinga 2)

Important: 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 More

Archive