In addition to performance counters on Linux systems and applications, you can also collect alerts from open source monitoring tools such as Nagios and Zabbix. Nagios, which is also known as Nagios Core, is an open-source computer software application that monitors systems, networks, and infrastructure. It offers monitoring and alerting for various infrastructure components, including applications, servers and routers. Zabbix is an enterprise open source monitoring software for applications and networks. Similar to Nagios, OMS supports the collection of Zabbix alerts.
Collect Zabbix and Nagios alerts
How to do it...
Perform the following steps to collect alert data from Nagios and Zabbix.