Alert when not receiving logs from server?

[bpizzutiWHI]

Is there a way to generate an alert when we haven't received logs from a log source, say, in the last hour or so? Without setting up a specific alert for each individual server? Just looking for a way to detect if a server's syslog or nxlog process died or something.

[pbroste]

Hello @bpizzutiWHI

Thanks for reaching out, the best option to check to see if the syslog or nxlog process is running on host.

We have a support article that outlines the options:

• https://support.nagios.com/kb/article/process-checks-782.html

Let us know if you have further questions,
Perry