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Spring is here, and so are a few updates from Icinga. A major release, a new OpenTelemetry integration, and a recent Claude Meetup at our office. Plus, updated insights into our 2026 roadmap.

Happy reading!

RELEASE HIGHLIGHT

Gain deeper visibility with Icinga’s OpenTelemetry integration. Ingest metrics, traces, and logs from cloud-native environments into your monitoring. This creates a unified observability workflow across systems.

RELEASE OVERVIEW

Major Release: Icinga 2.16.0 and 2.15.3
Version 2.16 introduces performance and stability improvements across the core. The release also brings refinements to configuration handling and overall reliability, helping you run monitoring setups more efficiently. For detailed info about all the changes and technical background, check out the release blog post release announcement.

 

Icinga Web Ecosystem Updates
The Icinga Web ecosystem release bundles updates across key components, improving compatibility and user experience. It streamlines workflows and ensures a more consistent interface across modules.

UPCOMING WEBINAR

Join us to learn how to manage Icinga 2 the Terraform way. The webinar is recorded with a free link and a live Q&A at the end of the session. Make sure to save your seat.

Date: Thursday, May 21, 2026 
Time: 3 PM - 4 PM CEST // Convert your local time
REGISTER HERE

BLOG

Modernizing a Legacy CMake Build System
Learn how a legacy build setup was refactored to improve maintainability and developer experience, while aligning with modern standards in the CMake ecosystem.

Mirroring Packages in Restricted Environments
A practical guide on ensuring reliable updates by setting up package mirroring strategies for air-gapped or restricted infrastructures.

Modern PHP Features in Practice
This post explores how recent language improvements enhance readability, type safety, and performance, showcasing the evolution of modern PHP development.

Monitoring AV Networks with Icinga
This post shows how to monitor Netgear AV devices with Icinga, improving visibility into network performance and device health in AV environments.

THIS MONTH IN THE FORUM

Ubuntu Installation Guide

An informative post on installing Icinga on the latest Ubuntu highlights common pitfalls and solutions, including permission issues during the setup process. 

NRPE Log Noise Fix

A practical fix for excessive API log noise in NRPE setups helps reduce unnecessary log volume and improve monitoring clarity.

April Fools’ Plugin

Al2Klimov implemented an age verification plugin as an April Fools' joke. While the creation was meant as a joke, the plugin is fully functional!

COMMUNITY CORNER

We know our documentation is solid, but sometimes it helps to actually watch someone do it: We published a 2-part video guide that walks you through setting up a complete Icinga monitoring environment from scratch. Part 1 covers the core installation, database setup, and getting Icinga Web running. Part 2 picks up with the Icinga Director, where you'll create hosts, services, and your first real checks in a structured way. Feel free to share it with your team.

BEHIND THE SCENES

Icinga Roadmap

"While we're celebrating the release of the OpenTelemetry integration, there's plenty more on the horizon. Single Sign-On and Two-factor authentication are coming soon to Icinga Web, and Icinga Director will receive a brand new implementation of custom variables with native support for dictionaries and arrays.

 

Meanwhile, the team is already working on Icinga Notifications v1.0, which will bring HA support, generic sources, an improved API, and more. We're also finalising the concept for a new dashboard implementation that will make Icinga Web dashboards cleaner, more dynamic, and far more feature-rich.

 

Lots of great things ahead, stay tuned!'
Blerim Sheqa, COO Icinga

Claude Meetup

Two weeks ago, we opened our doors for the local Claude Meetup, hosted by Community Ambassador Michael in Nuremberg. Eric's talk on working with Claude Code in a legacy codebase sparked some great discussion. No one has the perfect recipe for working with AI yet (and maybe never will), and that's exactly why these meetups matter. Attendees shared ideas but also doubts and failures, so that others can learn from them.

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Until next month, 
Angelika and the Icinga Team

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