One 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 MoreCustom Variables are widely used in the NetEye 4 (Icinga) monitoring system in order to tag/add information to a host/service. In order to speed up setting these variables, users use the inheritance mechanism to inherit them from parent objects (i.e. hosts). This feature is very useful, but sometimes it can create some doubt about what…
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 MoreOver the past few months, I’ve received multiple client requests to export custom fields (custom variables or data lists) present in Icinga Director in order to enrich logs on Logstash or to make specific changes to the indexing process. The solution that I am going to explain in this article uses the Icinga DSL check…
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