Integrate Nagios with grafana tool

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IT-OPS-SYS
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Integrate Nagios with grafana tool

Post by IT-OPS-SYS »

hi team,

We would like to send data from nagios xi server to grafana server so that we can create dashboards on grafana tool.

let me know if its possible or not and if yes whats the best practises to achieve this kind of data visualisation.
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Re: Integrate Nagios with grafana tool

Post by benjaminsmith »

Hi,

I believe this can be done, but we do not have official documentation on this process since Grafana is a third-party application.

I would like to point that you do get 3 activations with your Nagios XI license, production, test, and backup. So you are free to experiment on the test server without worrying about breaking your production instance while testing this configuration.

https://support.nagios.com/kb/article.php?id=145

Additionally, there are a number of tutorials online for Core to help get you started.

Benjamin
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Re: Integrate Nagios with grafana tool

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just wanted to know if Installing PNP4Nagios plugin on Nagios Xi will break anything in our current environment .
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Re: Integrate Nagios with grafana tool

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Hi @IT-OPS-SYS,

Nagios XI is already running NPCD for performance graphs and processing RRD files.

Benjamin

Reference:
https://support.nagios.com/kb/article.php?id=41
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Re: Integrate Nagios with grafana tool

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where is the location of these rrd files inside the nagios and is there any way that i can get json format for these files.
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Re: Integrate Nagios with grafana tool

Post by benjaminsmith »

Hi @IT-OPS-SYS,

All of the rrd files are located in the following directory.

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/usr/local/nagios/share/perfdata
There is an RRD export tool that you can use to export this data into JSON format.

https://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc/rrdx ... ml#I__json

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