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hi bandana drive residents!

i'm interested in capturing the apache response times for the nagiosxi server. a) is this a stat already being generated somewhere/is there an obvious solution that i'm oblivious to? b) if not, is this the sort of thing that can be done by tweaking the LogFormat configuration on le server?

thanks!!!
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katie

If you run the Website Monitoring Wizard, by default one of the metrics it will record is the response time for the page.

but not sure that would help me capture the nagiosxi server's response times???

If you run the Website Monitoring Wizard and use the nagiosxi servers address to monitor it would monitor the local server (nagios xi)

@scottwilkerson ... i am so sorry for being super pedantic. i'm trying to use the apache response time as a proxy for the nagios application performance. my understanding is that the website monitoring wizard will go ask the website being monitored for a thing and then use that as the response time reported. what i'm wanting to capture is the response times that apache-as-a-part-of-the-application is producing as the application operates (mostly) happily 24x7x365 -- which seems like a different use case from "go poke apache and see how quickly it responds" (<- a totally awesome use case ... just different) ...

here's a haiku s.t. you don't feel pooped on by my confusion/needling:

oh nagios check
give me data always
spirographs are fun

I unfortunately do not know how to achieve the goal you are after. If you have a way you get this information sat from the command line you can always create a custom plugin for Nagios XI to use

so the thinking was to modify the apache log format to include the response time (by adding %D to the configuration a la http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mo ... onfig.html) and then build a custom plugin to go read the log file entries and grab the response time reported in the log file.

so the question becomes, can i make changes to the apache log configuration w/o generally causing a rift in the space-nagios continuum or would this constitute breaking the application?

Customizing the apache log format shouldn't affect Nagios XI's functionality. To be on a safe side though, make a note of what you changed, so that you could revert the change if needed.

It is a good idea to ALWAYS try your mods in a test environment, before applying them in production. This is why, we offer 3 IPs for each Nagios XI license.

https://support.nagios.com/kb/article/n ... s-145.html

so i'll go play with the configs on my dev env't ...

Sure, let us know how it went.