# \[NAGIOS\] Nagios integration

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nagios-nagios-integration/180375>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [May 9, 2019, 1:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nagios-nagios-integration/180375 "2019-05-09T13:51:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Alessio\_Creo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alessio_creo/32/43381_2.png) [@Alessio\_Creo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alessio_Creo)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 1:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nagios-nagios-integration/180375/1 "2019-05-09T13:51:09Z")

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Hi there,

I need to send alert to a Nagios XI server in a Logatsh pipeline, in particular when a field of my document take a specific value I want to send a notification to Nagios server, that is not in the same machine of my Logstash instance. I've seen that for this purpose there is an output plugin named "nagios\_nsca", but the documentation is not very clear when explains if I have to install on the Logstash machine. I hope it is clear.

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![yaauie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yaauie/32/23363_2.png) [@yaauie](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yaauie)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 5:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nagios-nagios-integration/180375/2 "2019-05-09T17:32:14Z")

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In order to include a plugin in your pipeline configuration, that plugin needs to be installed on the Logstash host. Logstash ships by default with a number of plugins, but I don't believe that `logstash-output-nagios_nsca` is one of them.

Documentation for working with plugins is available here:  
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/working-with-plugins.html#installing-plugins](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/working-with-plugins.html#installing-plugins)

Documentation for the NagiosNSCA Output Plugin, including the options you can set in your pipeline configuration is available here:  
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/6.7/plugins-outputs-nagios\_nsca.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/6.7/plugins-outputs-nagios_nsca.html)

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**Author:** ![Alessio\_Creo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alessio_creo/32/43381_2.png) [@Alessio\_Creo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alessio_Creo)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2019, 5:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nagios-nagios-integration/180375/3 "2019-05-11T05:52:11Z")

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Thank you for the answer. I've seen this docs, but I can't use the nagios plugin because my nagios server is on a different machine of Logstash. So I have to use nagios\_nsca but I didn't understand if I have to install a kind of client.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2019, 5:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nagios-nagios-integration/180375/4 "2019-06-08T05:52:11Z")

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