Now that I’ve set up Icinga2 and Icingaweb2 using the guide here, I wanted to get notifications working as I don’t want to be sitting looking at a dashboard all day long! On previous installations (icinga v1), I had installed ssmtp to send emails from a specific email address. This time around, I thought I’d just try and send email …

I’ve been using Icinga2 to monitor some servers we have at work for a little while now but I’ve never really got into it properly. The time has come to setup some proper monitoring for our infrastructure so I figured I’d document it properly to help anyone with the problems I had. The instructions that are given on the icinga …