# Install nagios-plugins with Homebrew, apk, dnf, MacPorts, pacman, zypper Plugins for the nagios network monitoring system. Version 2.5 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-22. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:nagios-plugins ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install nagios-plugins ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata - MacPorts (94%): ```sh sudo port install nagios-plugins ``` Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: net/nagios-plugins/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ### Linux - apk (92%): ```sh sudo apk add nagios-plugins ``` Evidence: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: nagios-plugins from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz - dnf (92%): ```sh sudo dnf install nagios-plugins ``` Evidence: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: nagios-plugins from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst - pacman (92%): ```sh sudo pacman -S monitoring-plugins ``` Evidence: Arch Linux sync databases: monitoring-plugins from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz - zypper (92%): ```sh sudo zypper install monitoring-plugins ``` Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: monitoring-plugins from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:nagios-plugins - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 2.5 - **Source summary:** Plugins for the nagios network monitoring system - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** GPL-3.0-or-later - **Source archive:** - **Last updated:** 2026-06-22T14:05:34-07:00 - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00 ## Executables - check_apt (cli) - check_breeze (cli) - check_by_ssh (cli) - check_clamd (cli) - check_cluster (cli) - check_dig (cli) - check_disk (cli) - check_disk_smb (cli) - check_dns (cli) - check_dummy (cli) - check_file_age (cli) - check_flexlm (cli) - check_ftp (cli) - check_http (cli) - check_ide_smart (cli) - check_ifoperstatus (cli) - check_ifstatus (cli) - check_imap (cli) - check_ircd (cli) - check_jabber (cli) - check_load (cli) - check_log (cli) - check_mailq (cli) - check_mrtg (cli) - check_mrtgtraf (cli) - check_nagios (cli) - check_nntp (cli) - check_nntps (cli) - check_nt (cli) - check_ntp (cli) - check_ntp_peer (cli) - check_ntp_time (cli) - check_nwstat (cli) - check_oracle (cli) - check_overcr (cli) - check_ping (cli) - check_pop (cli) - check_procs (cli) - check_real (cli) - check_rpc (cli) - check_sensors (cli) - check_simap (cli) - check_smtp (cli) - check_spop (cli) - check_ssh (cli) - check_ssl_validity (cli) - check_ssmtp (cli) - check_swap (cli) - check_tcp (cli) - check_time (cli) - check_udp (cli) - check_ups (cli) - check_uptime (cli) - check_users (cli) - check_wave (cli) - negate (cli) - remove_perfdata (cli) - urlize (cli) - utils.pm (cli) - utils.sh (cli) - check_apt (alias) - check_breeze (alias) - check_by_ssh (alias) - check_clamd (alias) - check_cluster (alias) - check_dig (alias) - check_disk (alias) - check_disk_smb (alias) - check_dns (alias) - check_dummy (alias) - check_file_age (alias) - check_flexlm (alias) - check_ftp (alias) - check_http (alias) - check_ide_smart (alias) - check_ifoperstatus (alias) - check_ifstatus (alias) - check_imap (alias) - check_ircd (alias) - check_jabber (alias) - check_load (alias) - check_log (alias) - check_mailq (alias) - check_mrtg (alias) - check_mrtgtraf (alias) - check_nagios (alias) - check_nntp (alias) - check_nntps (alias) - check_nt (alias) - check_ntp (alias) - check_ntp_peer (alias) - check_ntp_time (alias) - check_nwstat (alias) - check_oracle (alias) - check_overcr (alias) - check_ping (alias) - check_pop (alias) - check_procs (alias) - check_real (alias) - check_rpc (alias) - check_sensors (alias) - check_simap (alias) - check_smtp (alias) - check_spop (alias) - check_ssh (alias) - check_ssl_validity (alias) - check_ssmtp (alias) - check_swap (alias) - check_tcp (alias) - check_time (alias) - check_udp (alias) - check_ups (alias) - check_uptime (alias) - check_users (alias) - check_wave (alias) - negate (alias) - remove_perfdata (alias) - urlize (alias) - utils.pm (alias) - utils.sh (alias) ## Dependencies - gettext - openssl@3 ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Caveats: All plugins have been installed in: $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/sbin - Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 2.5 - Package-manager updated: 2026-06-22 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://github.com/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins - info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available. ## Project history and usage Nagios Plugins is the official plugin collection for the Nagios monitoring architecture: checks such as `check_http`, `check_disk`, `check_ping`, `check_ssh`, `check_load`, and many more. Its history is tied directly to Nagios itself and to the design choice that monitoring checks are external executables with standardized output, thresholds, performance data, and return codes. ### Project history Nagios traces its origin to Ethan Galstad's 1996 MS-DOS paging tool and the 1999 open-source NetSaint release. The Nagios history page says plugins that were originally distributed with NetSaint were soon spun off as a separate NetSaint Plugins project; in 2002 NetSaint was renamed Nagios and NetSaint Plugins development moved to the Nagios Plugins project. The current GitHub repository was created on January 16, 2014, but the codebase and plugin convention are much older. ### Adoption history Nagios Plugins became important because Nagios delegated resource-specific checks to plugins, allowing the core scheduler to monitor almost anything that could be automated. Official docs list network services, system resources, Unix/Linux, Windows and NetWare servers, routers, switches, and community plugins as part of the ecosystem. Homebrew reported only 451 installs over 365 days on July 1, 2026, but that understates adoption because Nagios deployments usually install plugins through Linux distributions, source packages, monitoring appliances, or bundled Nagios stacks. ### How it is used Administrators call plugins directly while testing and then wire the same command into Nagios service definitions. Each plugin prints a short status line to stdout and exits 0 for OK, 1 for Warning, 2 for Critical, or 3 for Unknown. The shared options pattern matters in day-to-day use: `-H` for host, `-w` and `-c` for thresholds, `-t` for timeout, `-v` for verbosity, and `--help` or `--usage` for plugin-specific syntax. Performance data after `|` feeds graphing and long-term metrics. ### Why package nerds care The package is a foundational example of a stable CLI plugin ABI. The individual checks are ordinary executables, but the exit-code and output contract let Nagios, Icinga-style systems, wrappers, and custom scripts compose checks written in C, shell, Perl, Python, or anything else. For package maintainers, it is also a bundle package: installing one formula drops a fleet of `check_*` tools into Homebrew's sbin. ### Timeline - 1996: Ethan Galstad creates the early paging/checking tool that becomes Nagios's architectural seed. - 1999: NetSaint is released as open source and the plugin code is soon spun out as a separate project. - 2002: NetSaint is renamed Nagios and NetSaint Plugins development moves to Nagios Plugins. - 2014-01-16: current GitHub repository created. - 2026-03-31: Nagios Plugins 2.5 released. - 2026-07-01: Homebrew API reported 451 installs over 365 days. ### Related projects - Nagios Core - Nagios XI - Nagios Exchange - Icinga - Monitoring Plugins - NRPE - NCPA ### Sources - - - - - - - - - - ## Security Notes broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal. - **Geiger risk:** orange / medium - broad file, network, media, or database tool signal - infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** nagios-plugins - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Conflicts With:** monitoring-plugins - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - apk - nagios-plugins - 2.5-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: nagios-plugins from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Plugins for Nagios to check services on hosts | https://nagios-plugins.org/ - apk - nagios-plugins-all - 2.5-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: nagios-plugins-all from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Metapackage that installs *all* Nagios plugins from the nagios-plugins package | https://nagios-plugins.org/ - apk - nagios-plugins-breeze - 2.5-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: nagios-plugins-breeze from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Nagios plugin check_breeze | https://nagios-plugins.org/ - apk - nagios-plugins-by_ssh - 2.5-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: nagios-plugins-by_ssh from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Nagios plugin check_by_ssh | https://nagios-plugins.org/ - apk - nagios-plugins-cluster - 2.5-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: nagios-plugins-cluster from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Nagios plugin check_cluster | https://nagios-plugins.org/ - apk - nagios-plugins-dbi - 2.5-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: nagios-plugins-dbi from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Nagios plugin check_dbi | https://nagios-plugins.org/ - apk - nagios-plugins-dhcp - 2.5-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: nagios-plugins-dhcp from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Nagios plugin check_dhcp | https://nagios-plugins.org/ - apk - nagios-plugins-dig - 2.5-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: nagios-plugins-dig from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Nagios plugin check_dig | https://nagios-plugins.org/ - apk - nagios-plugins-disk - 2.5-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: nagios-plugins-disk from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Nagios plugin check_disk | https://nagios-plugins.org/ - apk - nagios-plugins-disk_smb - 2.5-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: nagios-plugins-disk_smb from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Nagios plugin check_disk_smb | https://nagios-plugins.org/ - apk - nagios-plugins-dns - 2.5-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: nagios-plugins-dns from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Nagios plugin check_dns | https://nagios-plugins.org/ - apk - nagios-plugins-dummy - 2.5-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: nagios-plugins-dummy from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Nagios plugin check_dummy | https://nagios-plugins.org/ - apk - nagios-plugins-file_age - 2.5-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: nagios-plugins-file_age from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Nagios plugin check_file_age | https://nagios-plugins.org/ - apk - nagios-plugins-fping - 2.5-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: nagios-plugins-fping from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Nagios plugin check_fping | https://nagios-plugins.org/ - apk - nagios-plugins-hpjd - 2.5-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: nagios-plugins-hpjd from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Nagios plugin check_hpjd | https://nagios-plugins.org/ - apk - nagios-plugins-http - 2.5-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: nagios-plugins-http from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Nagios plugin check_http | https://nagios-plugins.org/ ## Related links - [Secret-risk packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/secret-risk-packages/) - Has protected-tool coverage, approval-gate, or non-low Geiger security signals. - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata. - [Homebrew utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew-utility-packages/) - Matched Homebrew package provider. - [gettext](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/gettext/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [openssl@3](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/openssl-3/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [nrpe](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/nrpe/) - Popular package that depends on this formula. - [monitoring-plugins](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/monitoring-plugins/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, monitoring, nagios, plugins, system. - [nagios](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/nagios/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, monitoring, nagios, network-monitoring, system. - [collectd](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/collectd/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, monitoring, plugins, system. - [asitop](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/asitop/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, monitoring, system. - [ctop](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/ctop/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, monitoring, system. - [duf](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/duf/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, monitoring, system. - [dwatch](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/dwatch/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, monitoring, system. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/nagios-plugins.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/nagios-plugins.yml) ## Sources - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated package history - package version freshness - av.db category and tag curation - package relationship graph - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph