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Nagios plugins to monitor log files and log file management systems.
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Nagios Log Server is a powerful enterprise-class log monitoring and management application that allows organizations to quickly and easily view, sort, and configure logs from any source on any given network. Log Server is designed to analyze, collect, a ...
Check File Content





This plugin permit to check lines in a file. It allows to : - Add multiple exclusion patterns - Add multiple inclusion patterns - Count number lines
Check LogServer





Plugin to check a logserver via either TCP or UDP with a MySQL backend. Flexible enough for just about any Syslog-ng/MySQL scenario.
Check Rsyslog (DB)





A plugin for checking that a remote rsyslog server which is configured to log to a MySQL database is successfully receiving and storing syslog messages. This plugin was orignally written and tested in an environment using rsyslog, but it should work wi ...
Check Rsyslog Queues





Checks for presence of Rsyslog Disk Assisted Buffer (Queues) files. Options: -q Check for presence of disk queue files -d Specify $WorkDirectory (def: /var/spool/rsyslog) Usage: ./check_rsyslog.sh -q forwarder -d /rsyslog-buffer
check_events.pl





This plugin will scan arbitrary text files looking for down and up events. The events are searched using Perl regular expressions. When a down event is found, the plugin exits with either WARNING (-W) or CRITICAL (-C). This is ideal for searching an snmp ...
check_events.vba





After trying many of the available and complicated ways to check my Windows event viewer's for a specific Event, I decided to write my own and share with everyone!
check_files_count





If too many files under a folder, raise an alert.
Check more: https://github.com/DennyZhang/monitoring/tree/master/files/check_file_count
check_file_line_count





This nagios check checks the number of lines in a file and alerts when exceeding the given warn/crit values 0.2 Added checks for non-existant file 0.1 Initial release
check_file_monitoring





Plugin in python to be run remotely via check_by_ssh on a FTP/SFTP/SCP server (in my case NAS synology). It allows to monitor if a file (like a backup of a device) is created regularly and optionally validate it against a md5 if available. It runs as fo ...
check_graylog2_sources





This is a check to see if all your network hosts are logging well in graylog2.
check_graylog_sidecars





This plugin will use the graylog api (/api/sidecars/all) to check the status and activity of the graylog sidecars.
check_in_logfiles.py





Searches log files for a patterns loaded from a pattern file. Usage check_in_logfiles.py :
check_log.ps1





Powershell version of check_log.sh nagios plugin Usage: .\check_log.ps1 .\check_log.ps1 log_file old_log_file pattern
check_log3.pl





check_log3.pl - a regular expression based log file parser plugin for Nagios and Nagios-like monitoring systems. Tested on Linux, Windows, AIX and Solaris. No dependencies on third-party Perl modules. This plugin will scan arbitrary text files lookin ...
check_logfiles





check_logfiles is used to scan the lines of a file for regular expressions.
check_logrep





Checks apache logs using logrep (http://code.google.com/p/wtop/) and returns basic visitor stats
check_octopussy.pl - Nagios Plugin that checks Octopuss...





Nagios Plugin that checks Octopussy
check_oom_killer





Look for the 'Out of memory' string in the /var/log/kern.log file. Its presence indicates the OOM Killer was activated. For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_memory
check_timed_logs





Script searches a text file for the appearance of a given RegEx within a given time period. Using additional parameters you can adjust: Time string format, time string position, number of pattern matches required to be "successful".
custom_mail_alert.pl





A hook script called by the check_logfiles plugin to send custom mail alerts. This is useful in case you want to send custom output in addition [or instead] of the one Nagios itself sends. I originally wrote it to send custom mails to customers when an ...
Energy waste manager





Service checks and sends alert to one or more contacts telling which computer network objects are active. This information will be forwarded via e-mail containing the number of objects connected in moments of data unnecessarily. Faced with this informatio ...
HP Insight Manager Log Checker





HP Insight Manager Log Checker. Checks Status and last entry of the HP Insight Manager Logs from HP Servers. Tested with HP Proliant DL/ML and Blades
Linux/Unix Check File Growth





Shell script that checks the level of byte growth of a file for a time interval. Also, check that a file is growing. Tested on Linux, FreeBSD, OSX, and AIX.
log_pattern_frequency





If too many pattern of log entries has happened recently, raise alerts Check more: https://github.com/DennyZhang/monitoring/blob/master/files/log_pattern_frequency.py