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Christmas Wishes

If you were around the blog this time last year, you may have contributed to Icinga’s development in 2011. Indeed, we managed to tick off a few features that were on your wish lists last year. Icinga Wiki and the Icinga Web module loader were products of this; but most importantly an API for core [...]

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Icinga Web 1.6.1 Release

As the core team released 1.6.1, so do we. Download Icinga Web 1.6.1 on Sourceforge now. This release fixes many database related issues and in particular, resolves a authorisation dispatcher bug that hindered the import user function – cheers to user gpduck for the patch!

We also managed to slip in a new feature that [...]

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SLA Reporting with Added Precision

If you have upgraded to Icinga Web 1.6 you may already be familiar with the new SLA extension in IDOUtils. The optional module is our response to the old niggle from the community that data written to database could be better used. So we have taken the opportunity to add a table to the database [...]

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Icinga 1.6 Beta Released for Testing

Icinga 1.6 Beta is now out for you to download and test. So you’re not caught off guard, here are a few new features to look out for:

Core & Classic UI: New capabilities in acknowledgements and logging, advanced wildcard search, and many improvements to performance and navigation. See the changelog/roadmap for more detail.

IDOUtils: [...]

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Icinga vs Nagios - a developer's comparison

It’s been nearly 2.5 years/906 days  full of enhancements and refreshing development. Many things happen(ed) in the background which are not visible to everyone. Especially when it comes to comparing Icinga with its predecessor Nagios, it’s always hard to show Icinga in its best light and avoid bias at the same time.

As you might [...]

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Feature Preview: IcingaMQ for High Performance Large Scale Monitoring

In the lead up to version 1.6, we have been busy working on a new feature to improve Icinga’s performance in monitoring larger environments – IcingaMQ. Based on the ZeroMQ messaging library, IcingaMQ will improve core functionality in three areas.

At the moment, Icinga can monitor thousands of hosts and services with the help of [...]

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Icinga 1.5 released!

Team Icinga is proud to present Icinga 1.5 for download now. This release comes with a big new feature in our new UI, big changes to the API and a revamped release cycle to boot. But if you tested the Beta version, this would be no new news for you!

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Icinga 1.5 Beta Released – Test Now!

As promised, Icinga 1.5 Beta is now available for you to download off Sourceforge and test. So what are the exciting new things for you experiment with and pay special attention to?

API: The database API no longer exists and has been replaced with Doctrine.

New Web: Icinga Reporting is now a fully integrated Cronk, [...]

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Icinga wants you…to test!

IMPORTANT NOTE (11.8.2011): Due to extra tests being undertaken by the team, Icinga 1.5 Beta will be released on Friday instead.

On Thursday, the Icinga team will set Icinga 1.5 Beta free. This will mark a new era in our release cycle, where we will offer users a chance to test a beta version [...]

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Farewell Icinga API

In the days leading up to the v1.5 release, we bid our Icinga API goodbye and usher in a new API and Web concept.

You may ask yourself, what was this API anyway? Indeed, if you weren’t developing or adapting extensions for the new web interface, you wouldn’t have had much contact with this important [...]

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