Introduction For on-premise Elasticsearch installations, performing a rolling restart across a cluster can be a time-consuming task, especially when dealing with large clusters. Rolling restarts are typically required when changing node configurations or upgrading the cluster to a new version. Elastic provides an official procedure to ensure service continuity during this process. However, after analyzing…
Read MoreToday we continue our journey into monitoring automation in NetEye. In my previous post we discussed the possibility of automating Business Processes. As you may remember, for those of us working on NetEye Cloud monitoring dozens of clients, it’s important to be able to standardize and automate the creation of BPs to have a consistent…
Read MoreHi! Today I’d like to discuss a bit a quite hot topic in this world newly full of LLMs, namely MCP Servers! We’ll first see what MCP is and why it was created, moving then to a short hands-on with NetEye and in particular, the Elastic Stack feature module. Wait, what? MCP? What are we…
Read MoreWhen performance degradation occurs within a complex system, understanding the root cause can be extremely challenging. If the issue happens sporadically, this difficulty increases even more. This is because modern systems involve numerous components that interact in complex ways. For example, if your application’s Web UI becomes slow, the underlying cause could be anywhere in…
Read MoreFix upgrade 4.45 migration error We solved an issue that affected the upgrade to NetEye 4.45. The issue occurred during the migration of the monitoring role permissions to Icinga DB, due to the order in which packages were updated. List of updated packages To solve the issues mentioned above, the following packages have been updated…
Read MoreFix NetEye web UI exception We solved an issue that affected the NetEye web UI, when the SLM feature module is not installed, causing an exception to be thrown. List of updated packages To solve the issues mentioned above, the following packages have been updated for NetEye 4.45:
Read MoreIf a database goes down unexpectedly, it causes a domino effect on the systems that depend on it: the web shop won’t load, CRM freezes, and business processes get disrupted. NetEye is no different – if MariaDB fails, we lose access to WebUI, logins, Grafana dashboards, Assets management, and all other related functions. That’s why…
Read MoreAt first glance, rebuilding an RPM may sound like a purely mechanical task: take a patch, rebuild the package, ship it. In reality, that small fix goes through a much longer journey that touches reliability, security, trust, and long-term maintainability. In this article, we’ll walk through what really happens when a tiny upstream patch needs…
Read MoreMoving 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 MoreFix 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 MoreFix 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 MoreIntroduction 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 MoreFix 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 MoreFix 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 MorePassive 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…
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