Argus (monitoring software)

Argus
Stable release	3.7 / Feb. 2013
Written in	Network management system
License	Artistic License 1.0
Website	http://argus.tcp4me.com/

Argus is a systems and network monitoring application. It is designed to monitor the status of

. It will send alerts when it detects problems.

It is open-source software originally written entirely in Perl, but nowadays in Go, and provides a web based interface.

• Can monitor most network services.
• Supports both IPv4 and IPv6
• Includes graphing.
• Web based front end.
• Can monitor tens-of-thousands of services on common PC hardware.
• Supports distributed and redundant configurations.
• Configured using simple text files.

• Monitoring of network services (
  Rwhois, LPD, NTP
  )
• Monitoring of server resources: system load, network load, and disk usage, using an agent.
• Monitoring of the results of any command or script.
• Monitoring is easily extendable through user-written scripts.

See also

• Comparison of network monitoring systems

• argus.tcp4me.com
• github.com/jaw0/argus