Keynote Brings End-To-End Monitoring to Nagios Open Source 
Keynote Systems’ Enterprise Adapter 2.0 performance and availability alerts now work with Nagios open source monitoring software. The offering allows IT and operations team using Nagios to get a complete end-to-end view of runtime ops from backend infrastructure all the way to the desktop or mobile end user
Keynote Systems’ Enterprise Adapter 2.0 performance and availability alerts now work with Nagios open source monitoring software.
The offering aims to bring IT and operations team using Nagios the capability to get a complete end-to-end view of runtime ops from backend infrastructure all the way to the desktop or mobile end user. 
Keynote’s Enterprise Adapter 2.0 brings added visibility and a more complete range of performance monitoring features for to Nagios’ popular open source performance management to ensure performance of host web and mobile applications, according to Vik Chaudhary, vice president of product management and corporate development at Keynote.
Keynote is a leading provider of on-demand mobile and web test & measurement solutions for continuously improving the online experience.
“Keynote has extended the powerful and popular open source Nagios performance monitoring console out to the end-user, delivering clear and actionable performance measurement data to a single console for faster identification, tracking and resolution of potentially damaging performance issues.” Chaudhary said in a statement.
Inside Keynote, Nagios Integration
for Performance Monitoring, Availability
Enterprise Adapter 2.0 works by transforming rich Keynote alerts into various formats including XML feed, CSV, log file and /or SNMP that in turn can be consumed by any console capable of receiving them. Formats are delivered in a highly secure manner, retrieving performance events from the Keynote datacenter using only an outbound port, according to company officials.
Keynote Enterprise Adapter 2.0 features, which support web and mobile infrastructures/users, enables IT and ops teams to:
“Keynote has extended the powerful and popular open source Nagios performance monitoring console out to the end-user..."
Vik Chaudhary
VP, Product Management
Keynote Systems
- Monitor the performance and availability of any e-business application—including business-critical supply chain, eCRM, enterprise resource planning, business intelligence and asset management applications or portals.
- Display web and mobile application performance and availability alerts on a single console;
- Identify issues with performance and availability on both sides of the firewall;
- Proactively manage the performance and availability of applications.
At least one analyst said the Keynote’s initiative with Nagios reflects a growing demand among users that vendors get more hands-on in helping deliver end-to-end solutions for visibility and reliability of applications and their performance.
"Integration is a critical requirement for true service management," said Dennis Drogseth, vice president at Enterprise Management Associates in a statement. "Most Business Service Management initiatives, for instance, require assimilating multiple monitoring sources into a single cohesive set of insights on service performance and business impact. With its Enterprise Adapter, Keynote is clearly responding to this critical requirement.”
For IT operations and management professionals, the Keynote/Nagios integration provides these specific technology benefits.
- Ability to monitor logfiles for error text which is not native to Nagios;
- User-friendly interface into Nagios; and
- Separate Web-page with logfile alerts that can be viewed and deleted.
Pricing for the Keynote Enterprise Adapter 2.0 starts at $1,250 per month.
Nagios was originally designed to run under GNU/Linux, but also runs well on other Unix variants. It is free software, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License from the Free Software Foundation.
