Nagios Support Forum

Good morning all,

in order to compute statistics on host/service availability, I need to optimize nagios logging.

Currently, all checks on host and services are stored in logs, i.e. all 5 minutes if OK and all 1 minutes if DOWN. If my service is ok during the day I have 288 state OK stored in my log. If the state is DOWN, I have 1440 down.

Do you know how to configure nagios to store only state change in my log ?

Thank you in advance for your help,

Best regards,
Benoit Village

Just to clarify, is this for Nagios Core, Nagios XI, or Nagios Logserver? I ask because you posted in the Logserver forum, but you are referencing Core or XI functionality.

If this is for Core/XI, it almost sounds like you have state stalking enabled:

https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... lking.html

Is that the case? If so, that might explain why your logs are growing so large.

Dear tmcdonald,

Thank you very much for your answer and link, it's absolutly what I need ! Log size change from 90 to 8MB !

Have a nice weekend,
Benoit Village

Glad to hear it is resolved. I am going to lock the thread. Please feel free to post again if you have you another issue. Thank you for using the Nagios forums!