In my previous blog post, I introduced our scenario: in a private cloud context, we want to deploy a dashboard for multiple clients created using Grafana, InfluxDB and Telegraf for SQL performance monitoring. We saw how to write a Grafana dashboard programmatically using Jsonnet and upload it to Grafana using the Grafana API. In this…
Read MoreSay we want to monitor the disk latency of SQL Servers or other Windows Performance Counters in a private cloud context, and plot the results for users of our performance management platform who likely work in different companies. InfluxDB, Telegraf and Grafana are the right tools to achieve this, and with the power of Flux,…
Read MoreThe goal of this article is to present the point of view of the Red Team SEC4U at Würth Phoenix regarding the ominous PrintNightMare vulnerability that has been talked about so much in recent days. A summary for those who did not receive hardly any information about this: it’s a weakness in the Microsoft Windows…
Read MoreIn recent months many enterprise customers have asked me for a solution to create services on their monitored Icinga hosts automatically. They want a single point of insertion (like a list) for all services on the host as well as for the NetEye system to do all the work managing their creation and deletion. How…
Read MoreWith this bugfix release, we fixed several issues related to the Icinga 2 behavior. It also includes the patch related to the Icinga connection handshake that adds a timeout for establishing new outgoing and incoming connections. The full list of changes can be found in the release note. We also added a small patch for the…
Read MoreBeginning with NetEye 4.17, the NetEye Log Management module has been able to rely on the new Real Time Log Signing architecture, which aims to overcome some weaknesses in the previous Log Management implementation based on rsyslog. One of the core components of the new architecture is the new El Proxy daemon, whose tasks are…
Read MoreEver since NetEye 4.11, the NetEye upgrade procedure has been automated with the neteye upgrade command. This command performs several checks to ensure that: The currently installed version is eligible to obtain the upgrade The system is healthy The latest OS and NetEye updates and bug fixes have been installed Then, if the checks are…
Read MoreWhat is Insight? Insight is the Atlassian CMDB included in Jira Service Management Cloud Premium. If you’re reading this article, you probably already have Jira Service Management, but are not yet familiar with Insight. So let’s start with the first of a series of exercises that will help you learn more about cloud Insight and…
Read MoreIn Würth Phoenix we usually organize a workshop with the Icinga2 team twice a year. These workshops are an opportunity for all participants to show the latest developments, propose new ideas and explore new solutions. They’re always very inspiring days with an incredible flow of ideas and a lot of code written. During this year’s…
Read MoreCongratulations on finishing your first tutorial video! So now you can put it on your corporate web site, and maybe email or tweet out a link to it. But what about visibility? If your business is large enough to have a marketing department, you (or they) will likely want your tutorial videos to be part…
Read MoreWe fixed SLM bug that deleted the Event-Adjustment on director deployment. For NetEye 4.18 we updated the following packages: icingaweb2-module-slm, icingaweb2-module-slm-autosetup to version 4.14.3-1 icingaweb2-module-neteye, icingaweb2-module-neteye-autosetup to version 1.95.2-1
Read MoreDuring migrations from NetEye 3 to NetEye 4, I often run into really outdated monitoring checks in the Windows world, where the last update was more than 10 years ago… and whose logic is therefore now completely obsolete! The time for change is now!!! In the last year Icinga released a really interesting project that…
Read MoreWe fixed an SLM bug that always logs the modifications to event adjustments from GUI performed by “cli” in the audit log. For NetEye 4.18 we updated the following packages: icingaweb2-module-slm, icingaweb2-module-slm-autosetup to version 4.14.2-1
Read MoreAs you all known, JSON is a standard format used for exchanging data between applications. This standard is adopted by practically every vendor and by many applications to make information available via REST API. It is therefore very useful to exploit this information in standard format also in the monitoring field. A concrete example that…
Read MoreRoughly one year ago I started working on a set of backup scripts for NetEye with the following requirements: Cluster support without standby Configuration backups InfluxDB backup MariaDB backup In this post I’ll focus on the journey through my MariaDB backup implementation. Backing up MariaDB is usually a simple task: you run the mysqldump command…
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