How To Extend Nagios For Greater Monitoring Potential

Nagios offers the most complete Open Source powered monitoring solution in the IT management space. Thousands of Nagios extensions and add-ons, along with a high degree of customizability, allow you to easily tailor it to fit your organization’s needs.

Nagios Core Services Platform

Monitoring Plugins

Easily create your own Nagios monitoring plugins to monitor almost anything and everything IT. Thousands of community-developed and commercially-supported plugins have already been developed.

  1.  Watch plugin tutorials on YouTube (dev tutorials, plugin presentations)
  2. Read the plugin developer guidelines
  3. Get inspiration from thousands of plugins on Nagios Exchange

Monitoring Wizards

Easily create your own Nagios XI wizards to streamline and simplify configuration of monitoring for end users.

  1. Watch wizard tutorials on YouTube
  2. Download sample wizards from Nagios Exchange

Dashboards

Easily create tailored dashboards for your own use or for deployment in a NOC.

  1. Watch dashboard customization tutorials on YouTube
  2. Download sample dashboards from Nagios Exchange

Dashlets

Create custom dashlets for tricking out dashboards with your own unique data and display requirements.

  1. Watch dashlet development tutorials on YouTube

Log Filters

Create custom log filters for Nagios Log Server to monitor log data from virtually any source.

  1. Watch log filter tutorials on YouTube