What features does Nagios have?
Nagios has the following capabilities:
- System monitoring allows for the monitoring of the operational status and performance metrics of servers, network devices, operating systems, and applications.
- Resource management: enables the management and monitoring of a system’s hardware resources, storage space, network bandwidth, and more.
- Alert notification: can send alerts for detected anomalies, including via email, SMS, PagerDuty, and more.
- Event handling: Automated responses and actions can be taken based on monitored events, such as restarting services or sending commands.
- Report generation: Regular monitoring reports can be generated, including historical data and trend analysis.
- Visual interface: Provides a visual interface that makes it easy to view and manage monitoring information.
- Distributed monitoring: Supports a distributed monitoring architecture that can monitor multiple locations or multiple data centers.
- Plugin Extension: Offers a plugin mechanism to expand Nagios’s functionality by installing and configuring plugins.
- Log recording: It can record monitoring data and operation logs, making it easier to search and analyze in the future.
- User permission management: support for managing permissions for different users and roles to ensure the security and reliability of data.
