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There might be a better solution out there... but if anyone ever wants to monitor a restful web api that requires token authentication here's what I did. Create a bash script that uses CURL to call the API and pass the auth headers (example below) get the token back and write that token to the RESOU...

It looks like in order to authenticate I have to: Perform an HTTP POST with a username and pass to the API. This post will return a key. Then I can pass the key as a header along with all subsequent requests. I don't know if Nagios is capable of handling this. Does anyone know what the best way to a...

I just realized I can pass headers with check_http

ex: ./check_http -H api.somedomain.com -u /api/data -k blablah

I will try going down that route.

Does anyone know of a plugin I can use to monitor restful webservices with Nagios?

I need to authenticate by passing an auth header. Thanks.