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Hi All,

Just wondering if we can monitor a service uptime in Nagios XI. I obviously know we can monitor system uptime but can we actually monitor service uptime?

TIA.

Hi @rj-admin2, thanks for reaching out.

When you say System Uptime, what would you want that based on? The amount of time all checks or maybe just the ping check, for example, was successful? When you say System are you thinking hardware/vm or software like database/K8s, or all of the above?

@rj-admin2, I think that's a good idea for a monitor. Uptime of a particularly critical service is often as important as uptime of the host on which it runs. Declining uptime trend of a service (in a perf graph) would indicate a problem that needs root cause analysis. I'm not aware of how to monitor service uptime, but maybe something available in exchange.nagios.com.

Also, You might be able to create something useful to you in Reports / SLA. You could create a monitor for a service, put it in its own service group. Then run reports on the SG. Its not exactly an uptime monitor, but could let you know when your "SLA" for uptime is breached.

Hi @rj-admin2,

In theory if you can get the data Nagios can monitor it. I'd be curious as to which service(s) in particular you mean.

Or are you asking if somehow Nagios can track how long it has been since the last time a service was in a non-OK state?

Aaron