{"id":934,"date":"2018-10-14T16:07:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T13:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kifarunix.com\/?p=934"},"modified":"2024-03-11T20:05:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T17:05:56","slug":"how-to-monitor-hosts-and-services-with-icinga-2-on-ubuntu-18-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/how-to-monitor-hosts-and-services-with-icinga-2-on-ubuntu-18-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Monitor Remote Linux Hosts and Services with Icinga 2 on Ubuntu 18.04"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In this very tutorial, you are going learn how to monitor hosts and services with Icinga 2 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Well, Icinga 2 can be used to monitor the availability of hosts and services. Hosts and services can be virtually anything; Network services (HTTP, SMTP, SNMP, SSH, etc.),Printers, Switches or routers, Temperature sensors, or any other local or network-accessible services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In our last tutorial, we learnt how to install Icinga 2 and Icinga Web 2 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hosts and services can be monitored in two ways;<\/p>\n\n\n\n