1. Using the Report

To access the report, navigate to the Reports menu, then select Capacity Planning. Next, select the Period (how far into the future you want to project), and select the specific Host, Hostgroup, or Servicegroup to graph the results for.

Once you make all of your customization selections, you can then save, email, export, and even (another great Enterprise Edition feature) schedule the report for automatic delivery at set times.

Alternately, you can navigate to the Status Detail page for a service and go to the Capacity Planning tab to view projections.

The options tabs to the right of the initial graph provide access to a data Summary, all of the individual data points, and the option to customize your Time Period and Extrapolation Method.

2. Adding Graphs to Dashboards

You’ll notice the Dashify icon on the upper left of each Capacity Planning graph, which you can click to easily add them to your Dashboards. This provides an easy way to quickly access at-a-glance projections for key services in your environment and to roll them into other Dashboards you’ve created.

3. Using the Wizard

It’s even possible to set up alerts on projections using the Capacity Planning Wizard, found in the Configure > Configuration Wizards menu. In Step 1 you’ll choose which service to monitor. Then in Step 2 you’ll choose how far ahead the check should look, what algorithm it should use, the projected value at which you want to be alerted, and how many days in advance of the resource hitting the custom value you wish to be alerted.

You can choose to either add the newly created services to the host under which the services producing the performance data reside or check the “Put all new services on a specific host” checkbox to assign them elsewhere (for example, to a dummy host reserved just for capacity planning checks).

You can click the Render Graph link at the bottom of the wizard to see a graph of current and projected data and to see where your Custom Value selection falls within it.

Once the checks are created, you can monitor them like any other service or even roll them into your Business Process Intelligence groups:

Resources

For a more detailed overview of using Capacity Planning, take a look at this guide:

How to Use Capacity Planning in Nagios XI

If you’d like a tour of all of the Enterprise Edition features, this article provides a comprehensive overview:

10 Great Features of the Nagios XI Enterprise Edition

If you’d like to try Capacity Planning out for yourself, we offer a free trial version you can take for a spin:

Nagios XI Free Trial Download

We’d also be happy to offer you a custom Demo session if want a guided tour of our solutions, or a free Quickstart remote session with a sales engineer to help you get a few things set up. You can email sales@nagios.com for details on setting up either option.

Getting to the NCPA Web GUI

To access the GUI, simply install NCPA on a system, then navigate to the following in your browser, replacing <NCPA.Host.IP.Address> with the IP address of the host:

https://<NCPA.Host.IP.Address>:5693

You may need to add a security exception in your browser since NCPA is using a self-signed certificate to provide encrypted HTTPS access to the GUI.

Exploring the GUI

Home

The GUI starts out simple enough with the main Dashboard. This page shows NCPA agent information, monitored system information, and an overview of the total checks run by NCPA over the previous 30 days.

Checks

In this menu, you can review and check results for the last 30 days. This data is stored automatically by NCPA on the host and can be filtered by Status and Type.

Live Data

The Live Data section provides a real-time look a CPU, Memory, Disk, and Interface Graphs on the Stats Graphs page, as well as a Top Processes section.

Stats Graphs

Top Processes

This section of Live Data provides a way to see process CPU and memory usage in real time. You can choose to highlight the name of a specific process in the results and define Warning and Critical thresholds to color-code those processes that exceed your defined limits.

Check API

One of the most powerful features of NCPA is the check API, which can be explored and tested in the web GUI.

A great aspect of the NCPA API is that it works the same way across platforms, so the way you’ll write check commands to poll API endpoints is uniform whether the host you’re checking is Windows, Linux, or OSX.

In the API section of the NCPA web GUI, you can dig into all of the endpoints and run checks using them to not only review the JSON output but also to run them as Nagios checks. It’s even possible to generate a full check command for the endpoint to use in Nagios XI or Nagios Core by selecting the options highlighted in green here:

You can learn more about the NCPA API in this section of the NCPA v3 documentation:

NCPA API Overview

Nagios Log Server Integration

Log Server comes pre-loaded with NCPA, bundled with a couple of great plugins to help you monitor JVM heap and cluster status (you’ll see these in the Plugins section at the bottom of Step 2 of the NCPA Wizard in Nagios XI).

You can access the NCPA web GUI, view and update your NCPA token, and start/stop/restart the service in the Admin > Monitor Backend menu.

If you’d like to learn more about monitoring your Log Server cluster with NCPA, take a look at this article:

Nagios Network Analyzer Integration

Although not specifically an NCPA Web GUI feature, it’s worth noting that Network Analyzer uses NCPA for its Route function, using data collected by NCPA with the check_traceroute.py plugin:

You can learn more about setting up route monitoring here:

How to Set Up Route Monitoring in Nagios Network Analyzer

Getting Started with NCPA

If you’re not already using NCPA, you can find details on installation, NCPA wizard usage, and passive check configuration here:

Nagios XI Admin Guide – NCPA

Reports can be viewed, exported as various file types, and emailed in the Standard Edition of XI. Reports can be scheduled for automatic delivery in the Enterprise Edition. In this article, we’ll take a look at each report to give you an idea of the value each provides. To learn more about all of the various settings available to help you narrow down and fine-tune what your reports display, you can take a look at this document:

Generating Reports in Nagios XI

Available Reports

Executive Summary

The Executive Summary report consolidates Availability, Top Alert Producers, the Alert Histogram, and Latest Alerts into a single report, providing an excellent high-level look at the performance of your infrastructure.

Availability

This report provides pie charts indicating the percentage of the chosen time period that your selected hosts, services, or groups were working or in problem states such as Warning, Critical, and Unreachable.

SLA

The SLA report is an Enterprise Edition feature that provides an easy way to verify whether you’ve met your SLA targets for monitored objects and groups. Simply choose the whens and whats to get results:

State History

State History provides a detailed, change-by-change look at issues and recoveries over time.

Top Alert Producers

Gain insight into which hosts and services had the most issues during the selected time period with Top Alert Producers.

Alert Histogram

Alert Histogram provides a compact graph of the number of alerts over time.

Notifications

The Notifications report provides a list of all notifications sent by Nagios XI for the selected objects over the selected time period.

Event Log

The Event Log lists Nagios Core engine events, including alerts and retention data auto-saves (the function of Core that saves current state history in the retention.dat file so that if the Core engine is restarted, the state can be referenced as the last known state).

Bandwidth Usage

The Bandwidth Usage report shows daily, weekly, monthly, and annual traffic graphs for each interface you monitor with the Network Switch/Router wizard, along with In/Out/Max/Sum data in a table at the bottom.

Capacity Planning

This Enterprise Edition feature enables you to project future usage based on the historical performance data you’ve collected to help you stay ahead of resource overload and roll out upgrades before they impact your key business processes.

Network Report

This report provides chord diagrams showing top talkers in your network, based on flow data collected by Nagios Network Analyzer. It’s quick and easy to integrate Network Analyzer with XI, and these reports begin to provide data as soon as the two tools are linked.

Network Query

The second Network Analyzer report available in XI, Network Query puts all of the queries you’ve created in Network Analyzer at your fingertips:

Data Visualizations

Alert Heatmap

The Alert Heatmap provides a visually striking perspective on the intensity of alerts over time.

Alert Stream

This handy stream graph provides a visual representation of the quantity of alerts over time:

Alert Timeline

View all of the alerts detected by Nagios over time with the Alert Timeline and click on any of the event dots for further details about the individual event.

Network Replay

Network Replay is a great visualization that combines time with topology, enabling you to play through state changes over time, viewed on the Hypermap network diagram.

Legacy Reports

In this section you’ll find the basic legacy Nagios Core reports, in case you’d like to view them inside of Nagios XI.

Audit Log

The Audit Log is also worth a mention, providing details on the usage and functions of your XI system. This Enterprise Edition report can be filtered by User Interface, Core Config Manager, Subsystem, API, Core, and Other for quick access to specific subsets of audit data. For example, filtering by User Interface will show you when users accessed the web UI:

Graphs

Although performance graphs do make an appearance in regular reports such as Bandwidth Usage, Nagios XI has an array of additional graphing tools built in. To learn more about those, you can take a look at this article:

Use Nagios XI Graphs to Illuminate Your Infrastructure

Getting Started

If you’d like to try out all of the reports yourself, you can take the free 30-day trial for a spin:

Nagios XI Free Trial Downloads

If you need a hand during your trial, we have a variety of resources available. Email us at sales@nagios.com, and we’d be happy to assist you.

Audit Log

The Audit Log provides easy access to details on interactions with the user interface, Core Config Manager, subsystems, API, Core engine, and other elements of the Nagios XI application. Results can be filtered by time, source, type, and user, and downloaded as a CSV or PDF file. You’ll also notice a Send to Nagios Log Server button, which makes forwarding these logs upstream to your Log Server setup a breeze.

BPI

Although BPI (Business Process Intelligence) is included in the Standard Edition, the Enterprise Edition adds the ability to automatically sync your hostgroups and servicegroups into BPI groups, providing a way to get further value out of time spent carefully cultivating your groups.

To learn more about using BPI, you can review the Using BPI guide.

You can find a detailed cluster monitoring with BPI use-case example here.

Bulk Modification and Bulk Renaming

The Bulk Modifications Tool has long been a favorite of Enterprise Edition users, especially those with large and dynamic environments. The tool enables you to quickly modify a key setting on as many hosts or services as you’d like with a few clicks.

Bulk Renaming not only provides a way to rename many objects at once, but even better (unlike renaming one-at-a-time in the Core Config Manager) ensures that your historical performance data is retained even after changing the name of an object.

Capacity Planning

Capacity Planning is another user favorite. This Enterprise Edition feature enables you to project future resource usage based on collected historical performance data. The projections can be viewed in graphs, added to dashboards, made into reports, and even monitored using the Capacity Planning Wizard. This will empower you to run maintenance on and allocate additional resources to your equipment before it becomes overloaded.

You can learn more about using Capacity Planning in Nagios XI 2024 here:

Deadpool

In dynamic environments, the Deadpool can be a major timesaver. This feature provides a way to automatically decommission hosts and services that have been in a problem state for a customizable amount of time. Stage 1 automatically stops notifications, then Stage 2 can be set to either delete (remove entirely) or deactivate (mark ‘inactive’, thus stopping the Core engine from monitoring but leaving the config in the Core Config Manager).

Full details on using the Deadpool can be found here.

Scheduled Pages and Reports

The Standard Edition already provides a lot of value by making emailing and downloading individual reports quick and easy, but have you ever dreamed of automating report delivery? With Scheduled Pages and Reports, you’ll be able to accomplish this with ease, setting XI to send key reports to teams and managers on whichever frequency you choose.

You can learn more about page and report scheduling options here.

SLA Report

Speaking of reports, the SLA Report is another great Enterprise Edition feature. Simply choose the time period to report on, narrow down the results to the specific hosts, services, or groups, and enter your SLA target for immediate insight into SLA status.

Full details on using the SLA Report can be found here.

Notification Management

For admins with large teams, the Notification Management feature can be a big timesaver. This tool provides a way to template notification messages, preferences, and time periods, then deploy them to many users at once.

SNMP Trap Interface (NXTI)

SNMP Traps are a powerful way to passively monitor a broad array of devices and applications, but can be challenging to integrate into your monitoring, especially from the command line. NXTI provides a GUI-driven option to help you leverage SNMP Traps with Nagios XI.

NXTI provides the following capabilities:

• View, Add, Edit, Copy, Delete, and Disable trap definitions.
• View and Delete received trap logs.
• Search and sort both trap definitions and received trap logs.
• Monitor the snmptt process.
• Locally test snmptrapd/snmptt functionality.

More details on NXTI’s capabilities, along with technical documentation links, can be found here:

Accessing Enterprise

The Enterprise Edition features directory can be found by simply clicking the Enterprise main menu in Nagios XI.

If you’re currently running the Standard Edition and would like to upgrade, simply email sales@nagios.com so our team can assist you. Once your license is upgraded, you’ll be able to add an additional key in the Admin > License Information menu to immediately activate the Enterprise features.

Nagios XI is a powerful monitoring solution that provides extensive reporting capabilities. With the right reports, businesses can gain valuable insights into their IT infrastructure’s performance, availability, and trends. This article explores how to generate and share performance reports using Nagios XI.

Understanding Nagios XI Reporting Features

Nagios XI offers a variety of reporting tools that allow users to track and analyze system performance. These include:

• Availability Reports – Track system uptime and downtime.
• Capacity Planning Reports – Identify future resource needs.
• Executive Summary Reports – Provide high-level overviews of system health.
• Service Level Agreement (SLA) Reports – Ensure compliance with business agreements.
• Alert Reports – Analyze historical alert trends.

How to Generate Performance Reports in Nagios XI

Generating reports in Nagios XI is a straightforward process. Simply follow these steps to create a performance report:

Step 1: Access the Reporting Module

1. Log in to your Nagios XI dashboard.
2. Navigate to the Reports tab.
3. Select the type of report you wish to generate.

Step 2: Configure Report Parameters

1. Choose the hosts or services you want to include.
2. Set the time period (e.g., last 24 hours, last 7 days, custom range).
3. Apply filters to refine the data.

Step 3: Generate the Report

1. Click the Run Report button.
2. Review the generated report to ensure it contains the necessary data.

How to Share Performance Reports

Once the report is generated, it can be shared with relevant stakeholders in multiple ways.

Exporting Reports

Nagios XI allows users to export reports in various formats:

• PDF – Ideal for sharing in formal reports or presentations.
• CSV – Useful for further data analysis in spreadsheet applications.
• PNG/JPG – Suitable for embedding in documents or emails.

Automating Report Delivery

Nagios XI enables automated report scheduling and delivery:

1. Navigate to the Scheduled Reports section.
2. Select the report to automate.
3. Configure the delivery frequency (e.g., daily, weekly, monthly).
4. Enter recipient email addresses.
5. Click Save Schedule to activate automated delivery.

Best Practices for Effective Reporting

To maximize the impact of Nagios XI reports, consider the following best practices:

• Use visual elements – Charts and graphs make data more digestible.
• Schedule reports strategically – Ensure reports are sent at optimal times for decision-making.
• Customize reports for different audiences – Technical teams may require more granular data, while executives may prefer high-level summaries.
• Regularly review reports – Stay proactive by analyzing trends and addressing potential issues before they escalate.

Additional Resources

To enhance your use of Nagios XI, here are some helpful resources:

Nagios XI Resourcess Page — The ultimate hub for Nagios XI product-specific resources, guides, and best practices.

Nagios XI Admin Guide – Explore full guides on how to use Nagios XI.

Nagios Support Forum – Ask questions to the Nagios community for help and advice.

Nagios YouTube Channel – Learn through step-by-step video tutorials how to use Nagios Monitoring Solutions.

Nagios Webinars – Discover live webinar demonstrations and Q&A sessions led by experts.

Conclusion

Nagios XI’s robust reporting capabilities empower businesses to monitor IT performance effectively and make data-driven decisions. By generating, customizing, and sharing reports efficiently, organizations can enhance operational efficiency and maintain system reliability. Start leveraging Nagios XI reporting today to gain deeper insights into your IT environment.

Happy monitoring!

Let’s explore the top 4 reasons you should use NagVis!

1. Seamless Integration with Nagios XI

NagVis is fully integrated into Nagios XI, meaning you don’t need to install or configure additional third-party tools to benefit from its features. To begin using NagVis, simply navigate to Home > Maps > NagVis:

The complete guide for using NagVis in Nagios XI can be found here.

2. Real-Time, Intuitive Network Visualization

NagVis transforms raw monitoring data into interactive visual representations, making it easier to understand the state of your network at a glance. Whether you’re managing servers, applications, or entire data centers, you can create custom maps that:

• Display live status updates for hosts and services
• Highlight problems with color-coded icons
• Show dependencies between network components with color-coded lines

By replacing text-heavy reports with visual maps, you can quickly diagnose issues and make informed decisions.

3. Customizable Displays for Better Monitoring

With NagVis, you can design personalized displays that suit your specific monitoring requirements. These dashboards allow you to:

• Combine multiple Nagios XI data sources into a single view
• Use background images like network topology diagrams, floor plans, global maps, and pictures of equipment
• Display performance data, statistics, and status information
• You can also put your displays on an automatic rotation

This high level of customizability ensures that your monitoring environment is tailored to your organization’s unique needs, reducing noise and focusing on what truly matters.

4. Enhanced Troubleshooting and Incident Response

NagVis plays a critical role in faster troubleshooting by providing visual alerts over custom-chosen and context-driven backgrounds. Features that improve incident response include:

• Automatic Status Updates: See real-time changes without refreshing
• Drill-Down Functionality: Click on problem areas for more details
• Dependency Views: Understand how issues in one system affect others
• Audio alerts: NagVis can even play a sound when warning or critical states occur.

By pinpointing root causes faster, IT teams can reduce downtime and improve overall system reliability.

Tips for Using NagVis

Here are a couple of helpful tips when using NagVis:

Creating New Maps and Adding Custom Background Images

This can be done in the Options menu:

Changing Your Map Background

To load your custom image as a map background, navigate to the Edit Map > Map Options > Appearance tab, then choose your map from the map_image dropdown:

How to Add Icons

Once your map is created, you can add icons to it via the Edit Map menu. In the process, choose the type and size of the icon to use, as well as the host, service, or other objects to tie the icon’s status:

My New Icon is Stuck Where I Dropped It!

After initial placement, your icon will be locked. Right-click the icon to unlock it so it can be moved and to see the variety of icon settings you can edit as needed.

Conclusion

NagVis is a powerful visualization tool that enhances Nagios XI by providing real-time status maps, custom dashboards, improved troubleshooting, and seamless integration out-of-the-box. If you’re managing complex IT environments, using NagVis can help you streamline operations, reduce downtime, and make better data-driven decisions.

Are you ready to take your network monitoring to the next level? Start using NagVis in Nagios XI today!

This document is intended for use by Nagios Log Server Administrators who need to automate reporting.

Scheduling Reports in Nagios Log Server

This document is intended for use by Nagios XI Administrators that want to understand how reports work in Nagios XI.

Nagios XI 2024 & 2026

Generating Reports with XI 2026

Nagios XI 5.x (Legacy)

Generating Reports With XI 5 (Legacy)

This document is intended for use by Nagios XI Administrators that need to be able to generate specialized SLA reports based on hosts, hostgroups and servicegroups being monitored within the Nagios XI system.

Generating SLA Reports With Nagios XI – 2024 & 2026

Generating SLA Reports With XI 2026

Generating SLA Reports With Nagios XI – v5 (Legacy)

Generating SLA Reports With XI 5 (Legacy)

NNA 2.x

Understanding_And_Using_Network_Analyzer_Reports.pdf

NNA 2024

Using-Reports-in-NNA-2024.pdf

NNA 2026

Understanding And Using Reports – 2026