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# Monitoring Plugins
We, the [Monitoring Plugins Development Team][team], maintain a bundle of more
than fifty standard plugins for [Icinga][icinga], [Naemon][naemon],
[Nagios][nagios], [Shinken][shinken], [Sensu][sensu], and other monitoring
applications. Each plugin is a stand-alone command line tool that provides a
specific type of check. Typically, your monitoring software runs these
plugins to determine the current status of hosts and services on your network.
Some of the provided plugins let you check local system metrics (such as [load
averages][load], [processes][procs], or [disk space usage][disk]), others use
various network protocols (such as [ICMP][icmp], [SNMP][snmp], or
[HTTP][http]) to perform remote checks. This allows for monitoring a large
number of common host and service types. For more specific needs, thousands
of community-contributed plugins can be found on sites such as [Nagios
Exchange][nagex] or [Icinga Exchange][icnex].
In addition to the core plugins bundle, we maintain a [Perl module][module]
that makes it [easy][perl-plugins] to write your own plugin. We also take
care of an SNMP MIB used for traps sent from monitoring software. Last but
not least, we host the [Monitoring Plugin Development Guidelines][guidelines].
Our bundle was previously known as the “official” Nagios Plugins package. The
[new name][rename] reflects both the success of the straightforward plugin
interface [originally invented][history] by the [Nagios folks][folks], and the
popularity of our package, as the plugins are now used with various other
monitoring products as well.
You can get the latest releases from the [download page][download].
[team]: team.html "Monitoring Plugins Development Team"
[icinga]: https://www.icinga.org/ "Icinga"
[naemon]: http://naemon.github.io/ "Naemon"
[nagios]: http://www.nagios.org/ "Nagios"
[sensu]: http://sensuapp.org/ "Sensu"
[shinken]: http://www.shinken-monitoring.org/ "Shinken"
[load]: doc/man/check_load.html "check_load"
[procs]: doc/man/check_procs.html "check_procs"
[disk]: doc/man/check_disk.html "check_disk"
[icmp]: doc/man/check_icmp.html "check_icmp"
[snmp]: doc/man/check_snmp.html "check_snmp"
[http]: doc/man/check_http.html "check_http"
[nagex]: http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins "Plugins on Nagios Exchange"
[icnex]: https://exchange.icinga.org/dig/Plugins "Plugins on Icinga Exchange"
[module]: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Monitoring-Plugin/ "Monitoring::Plugin Module"
[guidelines]: doc/guidelines.html "Monitoring Plugin Development Guidelines"
[perl-plugins]: doc/writing-perl-plugins.html "Monitoring::Plugin Presentation"
[rename]: news/new-project-name.html "New Project Name"
[history]: http://www.nagios.org/about/history "Nagios (Plugins) History"
[folks]: http://www.nagios.org/about/team "Nagios Team"
[download]: download.html "Download"
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