Icinga

Running OpenCloud and want security posture in the same dashboard as everything else? There's a new check for that.

sowoi published the OpenCloud Security Check plugin: it scans OpenCloud instances and returns a security rating you can amonitor alongside your regular checks.

The plugin exchange runs on community submissions. If you've written a check that solves a problem for your environment, you can add it yourself and anyone with the same use case can discover it.

https://icinga.com/plugin-vendor/opencloud/

Icinga 2 v2.16.5 and v2.15.6 are now available. Both releases contain security enhancements that fix a couple of minor vulnerabilities. v2.16.5 also contains a bugfix for a regression in the IcingaDB feature that was introduced in v2.16.0.

Read the full release notes: https://icinga.com/blog/releasing-icinga-2-v2-16-5-and-v2-15-6/

FrOSCon was an absolute blast for the three of us behind the Icinga booth.

We had chats spanning a wide range of topics and complexity, from explaining the use case and concepts of monitoring to discussing what makes an open-source project successful and what kind of merchandise we should bring next year.

Many people really appreciated the idea of writing configurations in files, doing things manually, and putting effort into software. We were surprised to meet more people using Icinga on BSD than Icinga Director.

It was refreshing to hear so many positive things about Icinga and to receive thanks for our work on Free Open Source software. Usually, we only see issues pop up in our repos, so receiving praise for our work was a welcome change.

All in all, it was a great success, and we'd love to come back again next year!

OSMC turns 20 this year, and we're back as a Gold Sponsor.

Twenty years of a conference dedicated to open-source monitoring is not a given.

Three days, more than 30 talks, three workshops, and the part most people actually come back for: the hallway conversations with other people who work with monitoring everyday.

We're sponsoring the anniversary edition alongside ilert, B1 Systems, NETWAYS Web Services, Thomas-Krenn and Elastic.

Tickets are still available. ICINGA20@OSMC_2026 gets you 20% off.
And we have something planned for the lunch break on day one.

More on that closer to the event.

📅November 17-19, 2026 in Nuremberg.
🎟️Get your ticket: osmc.de

Icinga Director's health check --check sync used to report on every sync rule at once, even if you'd only touched one and wanted to confirm just that one is healthy.

That's fixed in v1.11.6. The --name option narrows a health check to a single sync rule, import source, or job:

icingacli director health check --check sync --name ldap-hosts-sync

The same release also adds delete to importsource and syncrule, so removing one (during a migration cleanup, or from a script) no longer means switching to the web UI.

Ravi, the lead on this Director release, wrote up both, with examples: https://icinga.com/blog/director-cli-commands-1-11-6/ ‎

community.icinga.com isn't only for asking questions. Some of the best threads are ones where someone just shared what worked for them - like the full step-by-step guide David posted earlier this year for installing Icinga 2, IcingaDB, IcingaDB-Web, and Director together on Fedora 44.

A working config and a short explanation of the problem it solved is enough to help the next person who hits the same wall.

If you've got one of those sitting in your notes, polish it up a little and share it with others!

https://community.icinga.com/c/meta/tutorials-and-guides/13

We've just finished unpacking our new print of Icinga shirts!

The new design was created in cooperation with the even-more-amazing Nick, winner of our community contest. With this batch, this year's merch run is almost done.

Also new: a beach towel in the making, and electrolytes to counter any dehydration-induced headaches.

We'll be giving out shirts at FrOSCon next week, and again at OSMC in Nuremberg at the end of the year.

If you can't visit us at either event, stay on the lookout for another chance at maybe winning some merch by following us on social media, or subscribing to our newsletter 👀

GoldNet now exports Icinga check performance data via OTLP into a VictoriaMetrics cluster spread across multiple data centres - giving their metrics pipeline the same geographic redundancy the rest of their network is built on.

GoldNet runs critical communications infrastructure for remote mining operations in Western Australia: around 150 radio transmission sites, more than 500 hosts, several thousand services, and customer circuits with defined service level agreements.

Decoupling long-term storage from the monitoring UI means dashboards can be built around the actual operational question - per customer, per link, per site or per service class.

"The OpenTelemetry work has been a big step for us," says Daniel Hooper, Technical Operations Manager at GoldNet. "We're no longer locked to a single visualisation tool, and having metrics in a dedicated time-series database gives us the flexibility to build dashboards around whatever operational question we're trying to answer - and keep historical data for as long as it's useful for capacity planning and trend analysis."

The full customer story is now live: https://icinga.com/company/customers/goldnet/