System Log Monitoring With Nagios

Capabilities

Nagios provides complete monitoring of system logs – including Windows logs, Linux logs, and Unix logs. Nagios is capable of monitoring system logs, event logs, application logs, log files, and syslog data, and alerting you when a log pattern is detected.

Benefits

Implementing effective system 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, cron jobs, and batch jobs
• Audit compliance
• Regulatory compliance

Solutions

These Nagios solutions provide system log monitoring capabilities and benefits:

• Nagios Log Server
• Nagios XI

See Also

• Linux Log Monitoring
• Unix Log Monitoring
• Windows Event Log Monitoring
• Application Log Monitoring