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Good morning guys,

I would like to monitor a string inside a log file and send an alarm when it appears? Can someone advise me an useful plugin to use?

Thanks in advance

Have you looked at the check_log plugin?

Yep, I'd definitely take a look at these ones first:

http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Pl ... es/details
http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Pl ... pl/details

Let us know if you need help!