I use NixOS by the way. And today I’m going to show you how to operate a simple Icinga setup using that operating system. I.e. a single node with checks and notifications. In contrast to Icinga Web 2 or Redis, NixOS provides an Icinga 2 package, but no module. Practically speaking, this means you can’t just write something like services.redis.enable = true; in your NixOS configuration. Instead, a complete systemd service is required as well as the user and group icinga2 the daemon default...| Icinga
Today, we are releasing security updates for Icinga 2 and Icinga DB Web fixing multiple security issues. Two of them allow authenticated API users to learn restricted information or crash Icinga 2. On Icinga 2, a third issue affecting the provided scripts allows a limited privilege escalation where the Icinga 2 daemon user can trick root into sending signals to arbitrary processes. In a similar way to Icinga 2, Icinga DB Web also allowed restricted user accounts to guess internal variables us...| Icinga
As some of you might have already noticed, we recently gave our official Icinga 2 container image builds a complete overhaul. These new images are currently available only as snapshot builds but will replace the existing stable images with the next Icinga 2 v2.16.0 release. In this blog post, we’ll walk you through the key changes and improvements that come with the new images, as well as the reasons behind these changes. We’ll also provide you with some guidance on how to use the new ima...| Icinga