How does Nagios Core store the log data ?

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ola
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How does Nagios Core store the log data ?

Post by ola »

Hello,

how is the data stored for graphs etc. ? Is it log files/database ?
Thank you very much
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mcapra
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Re: How does Nagios Core store the log data ?

Post by mcapra »

In your nagios.cfg file, the following directives are relevant:
host_perfdata_file
service_perfdata_file

The historical data used for graphing is stored in Round Robin Databases created by RRDTool and is generally located at /usr/local/nagios/share/perfdata.
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