What Is Nagios?
Nagios is a powerful monitoring system that enables organizations to identify and resolve IT infrastructure problems before they affect critical business processes.
Nagios monitors your entire IT infrastructure to ensure systems, applications, services, and business processes are functioning properly. In the event of a failure, Nagios can alert technical staff of the problem, allowing them to begin remediation processes before outages affect business processes, end-users, or customers. With Nagios you’ll never be left having to explain why an unseen infrastructure outage hurt your organization’s bottom line.
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 & Awareness
- Centralized view of entire monitored IT infrastructure
- Detailed status information available through web interface
- 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 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 thousands of nodes
- Failover capabilities ensure non-stop monitoring of critical IT infrastructure components
- Multiple awards, media coverage and recognition prove Nagios’ value
