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Nagios Core

Open source monitoring engine for servers, networks and applications

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About Nagios Core

Nagios Core is the open source monitoring engine at the centre of the Nagios family of projects. It checks servers, switches, routers, firewalls, applications and services, and raises alerts when they fail. Its makers describe more than 25 years of experience in monitoring, and it is self-hosted under a GPL licence.

Features

  • Host and service checks: watches availability, uptime and response time across a network.
  • Alerting: notifies staff before a fault reaches users.
  • Plugins: a package of around 50 official plugins, plus thousands of community add-ons.
  • Agents: NCPA monitors Windows, Linux and Mac machines.
  • Extensions: web interfaces, auto-discovery scripts and dashboards from the community.

Customers and markets

IT and operations teams running their own infrastructure. Organisations wanting a supported product are pointed to Nagios XI.

Key facts

  • Licence: GPL, open source
  • Hosting: Self-hosted
  • Related products: Nagios XI, Log Server, Fusion
  • Platforms: Windows, Linux and UNIX applications

Profile written by TrustList from the business's own published information, Oct 2026.

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