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 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 MoreAround this time last year, I wrote a blog post about improving cybersecurity with Elastic Defend. Now, one year later, we’ve gained a lot of practical experience with it, which I’d like to share. Elastic Defend is an EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response). Unlike a traditional antivirus solution that relies on signature patterns that need…
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 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 MoreTLTR1: Did you pick all the sweet grapes that grew in your vineyard? They’re sweet, but they degrade faster than you think. Now, to give them long-lasting value, get the must out of it and put a lot of knowledge, time and effort to create a high-value wine! TLTR2: Do you have an automatically fed…
Read MoreWhile working on some internal tools, I needed secure access to a few PHP pages and virtual directories resources that, by default, didn’t have any built-in access control. Since NetEye already uses Keycloak as its authentication system, I decided to leverage it to handle login and user validation. This way I could avoid reinventing the…
Read MoreOne feature that’s widely used by customers for the enrichment of entities (hosts/services) within Icinga is custom_var. These can be used for a variety of reasons: to provide more information to end users about a device, faster classification, to integrate data used by other tools such as notification, etc… These variables can be managed directly…
Read MoreWelcome to version 4.43 of our NetEye v4 Unified Monitoring Platform. As you log in, you’ll be greeted by a sunlit glimpse of Chiusa (Klausen), where pastel‑hued houses cling to the steep valley walls and the ancient cathedral bell tower stands sentinel over the winding streets. Below, the Eisack River threads its way through the…
Read MoreAs enterprises move toward containerization and microservices, traditional job schedulers are often left behind. However, many organizations still rely on tried-and-true tools like SOS Berlin’s JobScheduler (now known as JADE under the JOC Cockpit umbrella). The good news? With a bit of engineering effort, you can bring JobScheduler into the world of containers. In this…
Read MoreIn this article I’ll guide you step-by-step through configuring Keycloak to connect to an LDAP server using a secure LDAPS (SSL/TLS) connection, with support for certificates signed by either internal or self-signed Certificate Authorities. This is especially useful in enterprise environments using Active Directory or a centralized LDAP server. This configuration is particularly relevant for…
Read MoreLately, we’ve been working extensively on integrating Prometheus alerts into NetEye. In most cases, we process the alerts sent by Alertmanager (Prometheus’ alert management system) using Tornado, where they are grouped based on labels – not following the traditional “Host” or “Service” structure. Our task is to “translate” these alerts into “hosts” and their corresponding…
Read MoreIn the first part we created hosts and services to monitor a sequence of script using Tornado. The Tornado Rule Now let’s continue with the creation of a Tornado rule: open the NetEye web interface and select Tornado dashboard, then open the processing tree and select Edit mode On. Add a filter with an appropriate…
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