Nagios Features

Nagios is a powerful monitoring system that enables organizations to identify and resolve IT infrastructure problems before they affect critical business processes.

Features

Comprehensive Monitoring

• Capabilities to monitor applications, services, operating systems, network protocols, system metrics and infrastructure components with a single tool
• Powerful script APIs allow easy monitoring of in-house and custom applications, services, and systems

Visibility

• Centralized view of entire monitored IT infrastructure
• Detailed status information available through web interface

Awareness

• Fast detection of infrastructure outages
• Alerts can be delivered to technical staff via email or SMS
• Escalation capabilities ensure alert notifications reach the right people

Problem Remediation

• Alert acknowledgments provide communication on known issues and problem response
• Event handlers allow automatic restart of failed applications, services, and services

Proactive Planning

• Trending and capacity planning addons ensure you're aware of aging infrastructure
• Scheduled downtime allows for alert suppression during infrastructure upgrades

Reporting

• Availability reports ensure SLAs are being met
• Historical reports provide record of alerts, notifications, outages, and alert response
• Third-party addons extend reporting capabilities

Multi-Tenant Capabilities

• Multi-user access to web interface allows stake holders to view infrastructure status
• User-specific views ensures clients see only their infrastructure components

Extendable Architecture

• Integration with in-house and third-party applications is easy with multiple APIs
• Hundreds of community-developed addons extend core Nagios functionality

Stable, Reliable, and Respected Platform

• Over 10 years of active development
• Scales to monitor 100,000+ nodes
• Failover capabilities ensure non-stop monitoring of critical IT infrastructure components
• Multiple awards, media coverage and recognition prove Nagios' value

Vibrant Community

• An estimated 250,000 users worldwide
• Active community mailing lists provide free support
• Hundreds of community-developed addson extension Nagios' core functionality

Customizable Code

• Open Source Software
• Full access to source code
• Released under the GPL license