From 4b44687ee0a968e290295c3040be21386023c588 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Markus Opolka <7090372+martialblog@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 08:47:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Update README

---
 README.md | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c553f11..0feaabf 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 # Icinga2 exporter
 
-Prometheus exporter for Icinga2.
+A Prometheus exporter for Icinga2.
+
+The `icinga2-exporter` for Prometheus allows you to scrape status and statistics information from Icinga2 to monitor the health of the Icinga instance.
 
 ## Installation and Usage
 
-The `icinga2_exporter` listens on HTTP port 9665 by default.
+The `icinga2-exporter` listens on HTTP port 9665 by default.
 See the `-help` output for more options.
 
 ```
@@ -48,6 +50,11 @@ See the `-help` output for more options.
       Path under which to expose metrics. (default "/metrics")
 ```
 
+### Cache
+
+The exporter caches the responses from the Icinga2 API to decrease load on the API.
+The lifetime of the cache can be adjusted with `-web.cache-ttl`.
+
 ## Collectors
 
 By default only the `IcingaApplication` metrics of the status API are collected.

From 3ae0aeefc5743970e124454f73e3caaafe3d136f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Markus Opolka <7090372+martialblog@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 08:54:41 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Add example systemd unit

---
 .goreleaser.yml                  |  2 +-
 contrib/icinga2-exporter.service | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 contrib/icinga2-exporter.service

diff --git a/.goreleaser.yml b/.goreleaser.yml
index db962ac..a920f01 100644
--- a/.goreleaser.yml
+++ b/.goreleaser.yml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ release:
   draft: true
   github:
     owner: NETWAYS
-    name: icinga-exporter
+    name: icinga2-exporter
 archives:
   - formats:
     - binary
diff --git a/contrib/icinga2-exporter.service b/contrib/icinga2-exporter.service
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0bf18b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/icinga2-exporter.service
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# Example systemd unit
+
+[Unit]
+Description=Prometheus exporter for Icinga2
+Documentation=https://github.com/NETWAYS/icinga2-exporter
+After=network.target
+
+[Service]
+EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/icinga2-exporter
+User=icinga2-exporter
+ExecStart=/usr/bin/icinga2-exporter $ICINGA2_EXPORTER_OPTS
+ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
+TimeoutStopSec=20s
+SendSIGKILL=no
+Restart=on-failure
+NoNewPrivileges=true
+PrivateTmp=true
+PrivateUsers=true
+ProtectHome=true
+ProtectKernelModules=true
+ProtectKernelTunables=true
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target