Using the Prometheus Wizard in Nagios XI

Nagios XI is a robust monitoring platform and integrating it with Prometheus enhances your ability to collect performance metrics from a wide range of systems and applications. This wizard comes with the premium version of Nagios XI. Whether you’re an experienced administrator or new to Nagios XI, this guide will help you quickly deploy and leverage the full power of Prometheus integration.

Prerequisites

• Know the IP address of your host
• Your Host is Linux or Windows
• You have the Linux Exporter or Windows Exporter installed on your host
  • If you need help with this, you can refer to this article and come back

Configuring Hosts using the Prometheus Wizard

As long as you are using the premium version of Nagios XI, you will automatically have the Prometheus wizard. If you are not using premium, you will need to upgrade to access the wizard.

• Go to Configure (gear icon) > Configuration Wizards
• Find and select Prometheus

• Enter the host IP Address
• Select the Operating System (Windows or Linux)
• Do not change the host port, it will select the default for both Windows and Linux

By default, the wizard will be set up to perform services for the CPU usage, memory usage and the disk usage.

You can add more services that the exporter grabs by scrolling a little lower, should you wish to also monitor any of these services simply click them or hit select all.

Verify Monitoring

On the homepage find your new host and check its services. You’ll be able to see all the services and depending on how long they have been running you can see a graph showing the changes over time.

As you can see with our new host, it has started to monitor all services that we had selected.

Conclusion

Integrating the Prometheus Wizard with Nagios XI streamlines performance monitoring, greatly improving the efficiency and responsiveness of your infrastructure oversight. With this intuitive tool, administrators can easily tap into key metrics, quickly detect issues, and maintain the health and stability of their systems.

To learn more about using monitoring wizards in Nagios XI, you can take a look at this document:

Understanding and Using Configuration Wizards in Nagios XI