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Firewall Builder (fwbuilder) has no nftables support and has not been actively developed for years. FirewallFabrik is its modern successor: a complete rewrite in Python and Qt6 with native nftables support, seamless migration of existing .fwb files, and a GUI that feels just like the original.

utr is a CLI tool for UptimeRobot. Unlike other tools, it enables you to manage monitors, maintenance windows, alert contacts and status pages based on status, in a manner similar to Ansible. The desired configuration is defined in YAML files, and utr ensures that the actual state automatically corresponds to the desired state in an idempotent manner.

If you want to try out Icinga and see our Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins in action, you will find a new playground at https://icinga-demo.linuxfabrik.ch. Have fun! 😃

Icinga can now be ordered with just a few clicks from our partner Exoscale on their Marketplace. The cloud images we provide deliver a fully functional Icinga2 instance.

Release "2024060401" plus "2024052901" – What's new?

Graylog 6.0 is available. Under the hood, the new version requires the following software components:

  • OpenSearch 1.1.x to 2.13.x (alternatively and unchanged: Elasticsearch 7.10.2)
  • MongoDB 5.0.7 to 7.x

Due to the liblzma events since 29.03.2024, we were asked in a GitHub issue which versions of the liblzma library are used in our packages as well as the zip and tarballs.

Like last year we will be present at the (new) Icinga Summit in Berlin: On the second day we offer the workshop Write your own monitoring plugin in Python using the Linuxfabrik Libraries.

Let's Encrypt issues RSA certificates through two CA chains: the ISRG Root X1 chain and the ISRG Root X1 chain cross-signed by IdenTrust's vDST Root CA X3. The cross-signed chain ensures a high level of trust in Let's Encrypt certificates from the start.

This primarily bugfixing release offers more than 130 plugins, 100 of which can be executed as EXE files under Windows.

Release "2023112901" now contains over 200 monitoring plugins. What's new?

On June 30, 2024, CentOS Linux 7® will reach End of Life (EOL). We know what that means for your existing systems.

Markus Frei presents the Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins at the Icinga Camp in Berlin 2023.

This release currently includes nearly 200 monitoring plugins.

This year we have been elected Contribution Tinkerer by the Icinga community with our Linuxfabrik monitoring plugins. You can find the details here. Thank you! 🙂

LFOps – our Ansible collection of roles, playbooks and plugins for managing Linux-based cloud infrastructures – has been released in version 2.0. What has changed since version 1.1?

We are often asked what we think of Hetzner as a Cloud Provider.

Nice Icinga blog post about our Icinga Setup at SwissTPH company (where our Linuxfabrik Monitoring-Plugins are also used).

Linuxfabrik presents LFOps in a presentation called "Managing RHEL-based datacenter influenced by DebOps" vor.

We couldn't attend in person due to time constraints, but we were mentioned with our monitoring plugins. Thanks, Bernd! 🙂

Markus Frei presents the Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins at the Icinga Camp in Berlin 2022.