Linux Log Monitoring With Nagios

Capabilities

Nagios provides complete monitoring of Linux server, workstation, and system logs. Nagios is capable of monitoring Linux system logs, application logs, log files, and syslog data, and alerting you when a log pattern is detected.

Benefits

Implementing effective Linux log monitoring with Nagios offers the following benefits:

• Increased security
• Increased awareness of network infrastructure problems
• Increased server, services, and application availability
• Fast detection of network outages and protocol failures
• Fast detection of failed processes, services and cron jobs
• Audit compliance
• Regulatory compliance

Solutions

These Nagios solutions provide Linux log monitoring capabilities and benefits:

• Nagios Log Server
• Nagios XI

See Also

• Unix Log Monitoring
• Rsyslog Monitoring
• Syslog Monitoring
• Syslog-NG Monitoring
• Security Monitoring
• Application Log Monitoring
• System Log Monitoring
• Apache Log Monitoring