Unix Log Monitoring With Nagios

Capabilities

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

Benefits

Implementing effective Unix 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 Unix log monitoring capabilities and benefits:

• Nagios Log Server
• Nagios XI

See Also

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