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 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…
Read MoreWhen working with Logstash in production, one of the often-overlooked areas is the Dead Letter Queue (DLQ). This queue stores events that Logstash cannot process, usually due to parsing errors, mapping conflicts, or pipeline misconfigurations. While the DLQ is useful for troubleshooting, leaving it unmonitored can be dangerous: if it grows unnoticed, critical data might…
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 MoreDashboard Graphs Now Use Full Width We’ve addressed an issue where service and host graphs on dashboards were not utilizing the full available width. This fix ensures the charts now expand to fill the space, providing a better and clearer data visualization. List of updated packages To solve the issues mentioned above, the following packages…
Read MoreWith NetEye version 4.42, we’re excited to introduce a clustered solution for MariaDB – MariaDB Galera – designed to enhance the high availability of all NetEye services. This improvement significantly increases the reliability of services that depend on the database, such as Icinga 2, Icinga Web 2, Grafana, Keycloak, and others. Thanks to this new…
Read MoreImportant: Elastic Stack security update (installed with SIEM) Type/Severity NetEye Product Security has rated this update as having a High security impact. Topic An update for the elasticsearch package is now available for NetEye 4. Security Fix for NetEye 4.43 CVE-2025-54988 (Apache Tika): CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/MPR:L For a detailed overview of the security issue(s), including the impact, CVSS score, acknowledgments,…
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