Nagios check_http

Operator

Nagios Plugins Development Team

Type

Site Monitor

Official page

nagios.org

In Vireo

Excluded, reported under Uptime monitors

User agent

Requests from Nagios check_http carry a user agent like this:

check_http/v1.5 (nagios-plugins 1.5)

Device Detector identifies it with this pattern (a case-insensitive regular expression):

check_http/v

Anyone can put any name in a user agent. Where the operator publishes IP ranges, checking the request's address against them is the way to confirm a visit is genuine.

How Vireo counts Nagios check_http

Vireo keeps requests from Nagios check_http out of your pageviews and visitors and counts them on its bot report under Uptime monitors, so you can see how much it left out rather than wonder why your server logs show more traffic.

Checked by running Vireo Analytics' own bot filter over Nagios check_http's user agents.

Sources

• Nagios check_http information page (nagios.org)
• Matomo Device Detector, bots.yml (LGPL-3.0)