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is there a way to create templates that can be used when adding new hosts to NAgios monitoring instead of having to select the services one by one and setting thresholds? can i just create a template with some specific services that new hosts can be cloned from?

You can use the Configure > Configuration Wizards > Bulk Host Cloning and Import wizard.

Another option would be for you to attach services to a hostgroup instead of to individual hosts and then when you add another host into that hostgroup it will automatically inherit all services attached to the hostgroup.

We've got 9000k+ hosts in a small fleet of XIs
We use a host template to hold the "universal" stuff that all hosts might share, like token, port #
From there we have services assigned to host groups, such as Window_Baseline, Linux_Baseline, Linux_Baseline_Production etc
When a machine is onboarded it's added to the relevant HGs.
This also makes it easy to add or remove a service check for all hosts of a given type, like when we recently switched antivirus software.

Thanks @WilH!

@rnjie, let us know if those will meet your needs.