Features

General

Nagstamon is permanently visible on your desktop to give you an overview about your systems status in several different appearances:

  • a freely floating desktop statusbar, easy to place anywhere by drag and drop:

    floating statusbar

  • stay in the systray:

    systray

  • run fullscreen:

    fullscreen

  • or as single window:

    fullscreen

Statusbar

The statusbar automagically updates and shows a quick summary and a more descriptive status overview when being touched:

  • the status is indicated by colors for down/unreachable hosts and warning/critical/unknown services:

    statusbar

  • additionally it displays hosts’/services’ status with icons if there are any special flags like acknowledged, downtime, flapping and passive:

    statusbar popup

  • shown colors are even customizable:

    statusbar colors

Context menu

The context menu provides fast access to the monitor page of failing hosts/services and to any remote service like SSH/RDP/VNC/whatever running on a host:

  • by clicking it at the status popup window:

    context menu

  • additional custom actions can be defined easily for calling local/remote commands:

    context menu actions settings

  • or start an action via URL:

    context menu actions settings action

Multiple selection

Multiple hosts and services can be selected for applying actions:

  • with the commonly used shift and control key pressed:

    multiple selection

  • once selected, an action can be applied to them all:

    multiple selection

Filters

The settings allow filtering hosts and services:

  • by category:

    filters

  • and with regular expressions:

    filters

Notifications

The user gets notified in several ways:

  • by flashing statusbar or desktop notification:

    notifications

  • by sound or any custom application:

    notifications

Monitor servers

Many monitor server types are supported and the number is growing thanks to the community:

  • at least meanhile the list of available monitors is way longer:

    servers

  • some have extra options:

    servers

Shortcuts

The status window offers several shortcuts:

  • links to the monitor web page and the respective hosts, services and history pages:

    links

  • easy access to all monitor web pages, even those without problems, is provided by menu:

    links

  • available via hamburger menu too:

    links

Font size

The used fonts and font size can be customized as well:

  • for example as Comic Sans in fullscreen:

    links

  • select in options dialog:

    links