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I wanted to see historical information on system acknowledgements. I'm using Nagios Core 4.08 and I clicked on the "Comments" link under System and it shows me some of the acknowledgements. However, if I look in nagios.log I see more. Is there a reason that only some of them would show up?

Acknowledgements are removed (unless stickied) once the problem state recovers.

I just want to make sure I understand. I expect the comment to go away when I look at that particular service. But you're saying, if it is not sticky, then it will not show up in any sort of history either?

I'm asking because I need the sticky bit to be turned off to get the functionality I need (I even turned it off as default), but management wants to have a historical record of who acknowledged what and when (and why), and I was hoping there was something in place, so I don't have to write something that combs through the logs. If you have any ideas, let me know.

In my environment I can still view service acknowledgements in the "Notifications" area (assuming there was a notification) even after the service has returned to OK - this is irrespective of sticky or persistent.

You're not seeing the same behaviour?

I love hunting down old, still open posts.

If you haven't figured something out yet, I offer you http://everwatch.global/nagios/nlog.zip. It's a perl script that checks nagios logs and archives for lots of things. So you don't have to reinvent the wheel. You can look for: This would print out something like (host service ack_message): From ack's during that date range. Lots of other possibilities with my little nlog Nagios log processor.

Oh wow, I forgot about this.

Thanks for the log processor!!

I only share with those I like.

Thanks eloyd for the information.
jssingh, is is alright to close and lock this post?

yes, thanks.

Locking this up!