7.5 Checking Log Files
Monitoring log files is not really part of the concept of Nagios. On the one hand, the syslog daemon notices critical events there immediately, so that an error status can be correctly determined. But if the error status continues, this cannot be seen in the log file in most cases.
Correspondingly the plugins described here can determine only whether other, new entries on error events are added. In order to communicate information on a continuing error behavior to Nagios via a log file, the service monitored must log the error status regularly—at least at the same intervals as Nagios reads the log file—and repeatedly. Otherwise the plugin will alternate between returning an error status, and then an OK status, depending on ...
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