What is Icinga 2? Icinga is a monitoring system which checks the availability of your network resources, notifies users of outages, and generates performance data for reporting. Scalable and extensible, Icinga can monitor large, complex environments across multiple locations.

Icinga is available for many distributions. If you don’t find your system or local area in here, please help us bringing Icinga to your platform. Consider reading the Getting Started documentation before proceeding.

The Icinga stack spans six core strengths that cover all aspects of monitoring. Level up with valuable insights and on-time notifications, eye-opening visuals and analytics. Icinga easily integrates within your systems, and gives you the power to automate your tasks.

Install Icinga 2. You need Icinga 2 to collect the data to monitor your infrastructure. Follow the Icinga 2 installation instructions and learn how to run it and connect it to your database.

There are many ways to interact with the data that Icinga 2 collects, processes, and produces. The most common is probably Icinga Web, which displays checks in all the colors of a traffic light. Icinga 2 also comes with several metrics or performance data writers.

This tutorial is a step-by-step introduction to install Icinga 2. It assumes that you are familiar with the operating system you’re using to install Icinga 2. Please follow the steps listed for your operating system.

There are many ways of creating Icinga 2 configuration objects: The Icinga Director as web based and/or automation configuration interface. Monitoring Automation with Icinga - The Director; Manually with your preferred editor, for example vi(m), nano, notepad, etc. Generated by a configuration management tool such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.

Icinga is an open-source monitoring solution that provides real-time visibility into IT infrastructures. It continuously checks the health and performance of networks, servers, applications, and services. When an issue arises, Icinga alerts IT teams so they can proactively resolve problems before they impact business operations.

Almost every Icinga 2 setup requires the Icinga 2 API as Icinga Web connects to it, Icinga DB requires it, and it enables cluster communication functionality for highly available and distributed setups.

Icinga 2 can be used with Icinga Web 2 and a variety of modules. This chapter explains how to set up Icinga Web 2. The DB IDO (Database Icinga Data Output) feature for Icinga 2 take care of exporting all configuration and status information into a database.