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Ok, thanks for the info. I'll make due with user variables in the meantime, and simply blank out the really sensitive info and remember to add it by hand when needed on the server.

As part of our Nagios monitoring we hit various databases, api endpoints, and other resources that require sensitive information to get to, like passwords. I know you can set up to 32 custom 'user' variables in a resource file, as seen here: http://nagios.manubulon.com/traduction/docs14en/configmain...

Thanks Scott, I'll investigate both those possibilities.

I've set up the 'admin' contact with an email address, and we have several services that error out on ping checks, however we only get emails at 1 am, 3 am, 5 am and 7 am local time. I can't figure out why. This is a typical service check for us: define service { host_name logstash service_descripti...

Perfect, thanks so much for the information and additional docs. BTW, is this the appropriate forum for questions like mine? It appeared to be the most generalist one but if there's a better forum for it I'm happy to post there instead.

Thanks @mbellerue, for the excellent explanation. I'll take your advice to heart. Our Nagios setup right now has several existing hosts, and I wonder if I should create my new service with a 'host' value of one of those-- after all, it is just a check_http call and any existing host should be able t...

I'm fairly new to Nagios, so forgive the basic nature of the question. I need to hit an http endpoint using check_http and read some data back. I can configure the check in a service, however, does it need a corresponding host entry as well? My assumption is this would run on the Nagios server itsel...