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16. 04. 2021 Dominik Gramegna Icinga News, Icinga Web 2, NetEye

Improving the Process of Scheduling Downtimes by Introducing a New “Custom Actions” Module for Icinga Web 2

In my first blog I’d like to talk about a common process in the life of everyone who manages their monitoring system daily, along with an approach to improving it with a new module for Icinga Web 2 named Custom Actions, which we recently implemented for one of our clients. The process of scheduling downtimes…

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28. 09. 2020 Mattia Codato Contribution, Development, Icinga News, NetEye, Unified Monitoring

NetEye – Icinga2 Execute Command API

In the last few weeks, we collaborated with the Icinga2 developers to create a new powerful API, called “Execute Command“. The main purpose of this new API is to execute specific commands on a node by sending the request to the parent node. This is useful when the user cannot reach the desired node (an…

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20. 12. 2019 Patrick Zambelli Icinga News, NetEye

One Year of Community for NetEye 4 Projects

Almost 2 years ago, we first announced the start of our new NetEye 4 product. With NetEye 4 we started to build our monitoring solution on top of the popular Icinga2 and Icingaweb2 framework. Having been in the position of implementing some of the first projects based on NetEye 4, I recognized the need for…

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30. 09. 2019 Giuseppe Di Garbo Icinga News, NetEye

Downtime with NetEye 4 Using Icinga 2 API

Scheduling downtime is extremely useful, if not essential, for the correct management of a monitoring system. What exactly is downtime and what is the reason for having it? “Downtime can be scheduled for planned server maintenance or any other targeted service outage you are aware of in advance. Downtime suppresses notifications and can trigger other…

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21. 12. 2018 Franco Federico Icinga News, NetEye

How to Monitor Icinga 2 Itself with Icingabeat

NetEye 4 is based on Icinga 2. How can we monitor it? There are several options available; here I choose Icingabeat and test it. Icingabeat is an Elastic Beat that fetches data from the Icinga 2 API and sends it directly to either Elasticsearch or Logstash. In my case, I wanted to send the information…

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24. 08. 2018 Karlis Upitis Icinga News, NetEye

Introducing Lampo Module-Wide Quick Navigation

Do you count yourself a power user? Then you will like Lampo! Lampo is module-wide quick navigation feature which allows you to quickly jump from one module section to another.  Lampo is not installed by default, so be sure to install it first so you can try it out. Lampo allows you to get to…

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04. 06. 2018 Tobias Goller Icinga News, NetEye

NetEye 4 – First Installation Experiences

Over the last few weeks I’ve had the opportunity to install my first NetEye 4 at a customer site, and now I’d like to report to you about my experience. NetEye 4 comes with the Icinga2 monitoring engine, and we are using Icinga Director for managing the monitoring configuration. Obviously we have started to integrate…

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28. 06. 2017 Valentina Da Rold Icinga News, NetEye

Icinga Web 2 Theming

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…

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