Using rrdcached with Nagios XI

This document describes how to enable rrdcached with Nagios XI as a step to improve performance and reduce disk I/O on large installations.

rrdcached is a daemon that receives updates to existing RRD files, accumulates them and, if enough have been received or a defined time has passed, writes the updates to the RRD file.

Using rrdcached with Nagios XI – 2024 & 2026

Using rrdcached with XI 2026

Using rrdcached with Nagios XI – v5 (Legacy)

Using rrdcached With XI 5