
Overview
nagios monitoring
Nagios Core Monitoring Server on Ubuntu 24.04
This is a repackaged open source software product wherein additional charges apply for support & maintenance.
Nagios® Core™ is an Open Source system and network monitoring application optimized for AWS infrastructure. It watches hosts and services that you specify, alerting you when things go bad and when they get better across your AWS environment.
Powerful monitoring engine which can scale and manage thousands of hosts and servers across multiple AWS regions and availability zones. Comprehensive web dashboard giving the visibility of complete network components and monitoring data. Fast alerting system, sends alerts to admins immediately after any issue is identified, integrating with AWS SNS for enhanced notification delivery.
Multiple plugins available to support Nagios, including AWS-specific plugins, and custom coded plugins can also be used with Nagios for monitoring AWS services.
Nagios Core Features
Network and Infrastructure Monitoring
- Network Services Monitoring: Monitor SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, PING, and other network services across AWS VPC
- Server Monitoring: Monitor Windows servers, Linux servers, Unix servers, Solaris, Mac OS/X, HP-UX running on AWS EC2 instances
- Application Monitoring: Monitor custom applications and services deployed on AWS infrastructure
- Linux Server Monitoring: Comprehensive monitoring of Linux-based AWS EC2 instances
- Windows Server Monitoring: Full monitoring capabilities for Windows-based AWS EC2 instances
AWS Cloud Monitoring
- AWS Service Integration: Monitor AWS services including EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, ELB, CloudFront, and more
- AWS CloudWatch Integration: Leverage CloudWatch metrics and alarms alongside Nagios monitoring
- AWS Directory Service: Integration with AWS Managed Microsoft AD and Simple AD
- AWS RDS Monitoring: Database performance and availability monitoring
- AWS Auto Scaling: Monitor scaling events and resource utilization
- Multi-Region Monitoring: Monitor resources across multiple AWS regions from a central Nagios instance
Advanced Monitoring Capabilities
- Host Resources: Monitor processor load, disk usage, memory utilization, and network performance on AWS instances
- Network Hierarchy: Define network host hierarchy using "parent" hosts, allowing detection of and distinction between hosts that are down and those that are unreachable
- Alerting System: Contact notifications when service or host problems occur and get resolved (via email, pager, AWS SNS, or user-defined method)
- Event Handlers: Define event handlers to be run during service or host events for proactive problem resolution
- Log Management: Automatic log file rotation with AWS CloudWatch Logs integration
- Redundancy: Support for implementing redundant monitoring hosts across AWS availability zones
- Web Interface: Optional web interface for viewing current network status, notification and problem history, log files, etc.
- Extensive Plugin Library: Install over 4,000+ plugins including AWS-specific monitoring plugins
- Network Mapping: Create comprehensive network maps of your AWS infrastructure
AWS-Specific Features
- VPC Monitoring: Monitor AWS VPC components including subnets, security groups, and network ACLs
- Elastic Load Balancer Monitoring: Track ELB health and performance metrics
- AWS Lambda Monitoring: Monitor serverless function execution and performance
- S3 Bucket Monitoring: Monitor S3 bucket access, usage, and security
- Cost Monitoring: Track AWS resource usage and costs through custom plugins
- Compliance Monitoring: Monitor AWS resources for compliance with security policies and best practices
AWS Deployment Benefits
Nagios Core on AWS provides enterprise-grade monitoring capabilities with the scalability, reliability, and security of AWS infrastructure. Deploy across multiple availability zones for high availability, integrate with AWS native monitoring services like CloudWatch, and leverage AWS SNS for advanced alerting and notification capabilities.
The combination of Nagios's comprehensive monitoring capabilities and AWS's robust infrastructure enables organizations to maintain complete visibility into their cloud environment while ensuring optimal performance and availability.
Disclaimer: Nagios® Core™ is a registered trademark owned by Nagios Enterprises, LLC and is licensed under GNU General Public License V 2. No warranty of any kind, express or implied, is included with this software. Use at your risk, responsibility for damages (if any) to anyone resulting from the use of this software rest entirely with the user. The author is not responsible for any damage that its use could cause.
Highlights
- Powerful monitoring engine which can scale and manage 1000s of hosts and servers. Comprehensive web dashboard giving the visibility of complete network components and monitoring data. Fast alerting system, sends alerts to admins immediately after any issue is identified.
- Multiple plugins available to support Nagios (4,000+), custom coded plugins can also be used with Nagios.
- Monitor your AWS infrastructure aswell as any onprem infrastructure.
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Latest OS patches installed. Simply run 'sudo apt-get update' to install the latest OS patches.
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Scroll down to 'Getting Started' on the following URL: https://cloudinfrastructureservices.co.uk/how-to-setup-nagios-core-monitoring-on-linux-in-azure-aws-gcp/
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Contact us via our website for any support. - Disclaimer: Nagios® Core™ is a registered trademark owned by Nagios Enterprises, LLC and is licensed under GNU General Public License V 2. No warrantee of any kind, express or implied, is included with this software. Use at your risk, responsibility for damages (if any) to anyone resulting from the use of this software rest entirely with the user. The author is not responsible for any damage that its use could cause.
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