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Hi Team,

I just want you to know that we have enabled a external REST API Integration to poll the information from Nagios. Can I know if there is any known impact with such kind of integrations additionally I do not find any best practices with REST API Integration, can you help me with it if we have any.

Yes, there is some small impact every time a REST request is performed. Specifically, it has to do a database lookup that it wouldn't otherwise perform unless someone was logged into the Nagios XI web interface.

It all depends on hat sort of API requests you were planning to do, and how frequently you were planning on doing them, as well as the number of hosts and services.

*Tip:* If you have the Nagios XI server monitor its own CPU load you can keep an eye on what sort of load your server is under, and gauge the impact of these REST requests.