Introducing third-party web interfaces

In addition to the default web interface, Nagios can be managed using other web-based interfaces. A wide choice of additional web interfaces can be found on Nagios Exchange at:

http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Addons/Frontends-(GUIs-and-CLIs)/Web-Interfaces

Nagios Exchange, is a community website that lists various types of plugins and extensions for Nagios. It contains additional tools, web interfaces as well as plugins to perform checks.

In this section, we will cover some types of GUIs that can be used on top of Nagios—including dashboards that show the overall status of all Nagios hosts and services, visualization tools that show historical information gathered by Nagios as well as other web interfaces that are meant to replace or complement the built-in one.

Using Nagios dashboards

Many of the GUIs available on Nagios Exchange are dashboards. These show statuses for hosts, services, and errors. The dashboards are often supposed to...