Syslog Monitoring With Nagios

Capabilities

Nagios provides complete monitoring of syslog and syslog-ng log data and syslog servers. Nagios is capable of monitoring Unix system logs, application logs, log files, and syslog data, and alerting you when specific log patterns are detected.

Benefits

Implementing effective Syslog 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

Solutions

These Nagios solutions provide Syslog monitoring capabilities and benefits:

• Nagios Log Server
• Nagios XI

See Also

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