# Overview or static feed of blog posts (or other best practices)?

**URL:** <https://community.icinga.com/t/overview-or-static-feed-of-blog-posts-or-other-best-practices/12221>\
**Category:** Meta Icinga\
**Tags:** documentation, howto\
**Created:** [June 22, 2023, 9:53am UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/overview-or-static-feed-of-blog-posts-or-other-best-practices/12221 "2023-06-22T09:53:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Barney](https://community.icinga.com/user_avatar/community.icinga.com/barney/32/6072_2.png) [@Barney](https://community.icinga.com/u/Barney)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 9:53am UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/overview-or-static-feed-of-blog-posts-or-other-best-practices/12221/1 "2023-06-22T09:53:00Z")

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Hi community!

I’m a somewhat new Icinga user 🤗 – ever struggling to find up-to-date how-tos and best practices.  
(What are the go-to check plugins? Starting fresh with graphing? Learned one way to setup agents but that’s deprecated now? …)

Training courses, this forum and the docs hub ([Learning Icinga » Documentation, Live Demo, Trainings](https://icinga.com/learn/)) help a lot; so do a few historical blog posts …upon which I stumbled by accident.  
(Not always knowing the correct lingo for Google as a newb; you know how it is. 🤪)

Would you know of an overview or static feed simply **listing the blog posts** or their abstracts?  
(Ofc, in lieu of a wiki, any and all hints about up-to-date **archives of best practices** would be welcome).

Hope to share my ever expanding personal wiki in the future. ✌

– All the best, Barney

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**Author:** ![rsx](https://community.icinga.com/user_avatar/community.icinga.com/rsx/32/2094_2.png) [@rsx](https://community.icinga.com/u/rsx)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 11:05am UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/overview-or-static-feed-of-blog-posts-or-other-best-practices/12221/2 "2023-06-22T11:05:34Z")

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> [@Barney](#):
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> What are the go-to check plugins?

Everything from [ITL](https://icinga.com/docs/icinga-2/latest/doc/10-icinga-template-library/) and some from [Icinga Exchange](https://exchange.icinga.com/) as well as [Nagios Exchange](https://exchange.nagios.org/). Even more you can get from [centreon-plugins](https://github.com/centreon/centreon-plugins) and [The Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins Collection](https://github.com/Linuxfabrik/monitoring-plugins) and [Nagios-compatible Plugins for Linux](https://github.com/madrisan/nagios-plugins-linux/).

> [@Barney](#):
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> Starting fresh with graphing?

I’d recommend InfluxDB and Grafana (which we use since years).

> [@Barney](#):
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> Learned one way to setup agents but that’s deprecated now?

It’s pretty much easier using agents (as you don’t need to authenticate for many remote checks) and often more secure since the connection is encrypted and certificate based.

> [@Barney](#):
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> ever struggling to find up-to-date how-tos and best practices.

The are plenty good instructions out there e.g. [thomas-krenn.de](http://thomas-krenn.de), linux-magazin(.de/.com) and of course [here](https://icinga.com/learn). Most challenging and crucial is to learn zone and endpoint concept as described [here](https://icinga.com/docs/icinga-2/latest/doc/06-distributed-monitoring/).

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**Author:** ![rivad](https://community.icinga.com/user_avatar/community.icinga.com/rivad/32/5852_2.png) [@rivad](https://community.icinga.com/u/rivad)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 5:46pm UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/overview-or-static-feed-of-blog-posts-or-other-best-practices/12221/3 "2023-06-22T17:46:55Z")

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+1 for the [https://github.com/Linuxfabrik/monitoring-plugins](https://github.com/Linuxfabrik/monitoring-plugins) I can highly recommend them.

[![](https://community.icinga.com/uploads/default/original/2X/5/54b8455c6e8d9c0cc3bd79d56f59dcd17a1cc613.jpeg "Icinga Camp Berlin 2023: Current status of the Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins by Markus Frei") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MFRa1jyXow)

+1 for InfluxDB and Grafana

We use Ansible to manage the Agent setup: [lfops/roles/icinga2\_agent at main · Linuxfabrik/lfops · GitHub](https://github.com/Linuxfabrik/lfops/tree/main/roles/icinga2_agent)

I use the director and the Roles from above link to guide me for how-to and best practices.