Nagios
Nagios is a family of open-source and commercial IT infrastructure monitoring tools, including Nagios Core (the original open-source monitoring engine), Nagios XI (the commercial enterprise distribution), Nagios Fusion, Nagios Log Server, and Nagios Network Analyzer, used to monitor hosts, services, networks, applications, and metrics with alerting and reporting. Nagios Core itself has no central HTTP API; Nagios XI ships a built-in REST API (typically reached at https://{nagios-xi-host}/nagiosxi/api/v1/) for reading, writing, deleting, and updating monitoring configuration and status. The Nagios XI API is authenticated via a per-user API key passed as a query parameter or header. Passive check results can also be submitted via NRDP (HTTP, JSON/XML) or NSCA (encrypted TCP, port 5667), and the NCPA cross-platform agent exposes a hierarchical REST API on port 5693.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles Nagios the way a machine reads it — 49 machine-readable artifacts across 3 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Nagios scores 41.9/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 17/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.
Kin Score
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How we profile Nagios
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Nagios. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 13
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
NSCA (Nagios Service Check Acceptor)
Encrypted binary TCP daemon (default port 5667) that accepts passive service/host check results from remote machines. Not REST — clients send tab-delimited records over a shared...
NRPE (Nagios Remote Plugin Executor)
Daemon that runs Nagios plugins on a remote Linux/Unix host on TCP port 5666, returning the plugin's exit code and output to the Nagios server. Binary protocol, not REST.
Nagios Config API
Admin-only endpoints to add, modify, and delete hosts and services.
Nagios CPU API
System-wide CPU utilization and core counts.
Nagios Disk API
Logical, physical, and mount-point disk metrics.
Nagios Interface API
Network interface byte and packet counters.
Nagios Memory API
Physical memory and swap.
Nagios Objects API
Read-only backend for hosts, services, host groups, contacts, downtime, history, and other monitored objects.
Nagios Plugins API
User-defined Nagios-style plugins executed by the agent.
Nagios Processes API
Running process inventory and resource use.
Nagios Services API
Host service / daemon status.
Nagios Submission API
Submit passive check results and external commands.
Nagios System API
Admin-only endpoints to manage Nagios XI subsystems, apply configuration, schedule downtime, and execute commands.
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Open Collections 15
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONNagios XI REST Config API
OPEN COLLECTIONNagios XI REST Config CPU API
OPEN COLLECTIONNagios XI REST Config Disk API
OPEN COLLECTIONNagios XI REST Config Interface API
OPEN COLLECTIONNagios XI REST Config Memory API
OPEN COLLECTIONNagios XI REST Config Objects API
OPEN COLLECTIONNagios XI REST Config Plugins API
OPEN COLLECTIONNagios XI REST Config Processes API
OPEN COLLECTIONNagios XI REST Config Services API
OPEN COLLECTIONNagios XI REST Config Submission API
OPEN COLLECTIONNagios XI REST Config System API
OPEN COLLECTIONNagios XI REST API
OPEN COLLECTIONNCPA (Nagios Cross-Platform Agent) API
OPEN COLLECTIONNRDP (Nagios Remote Data Processor) API
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Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Nagios Plans Pricing
PLANSSemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Nagios Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 3
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
JSON Schema 4
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Nagios Check Result
JSON SCHEMANagios XI Host
JSON SCHEMANagios XI Service
JSON SCHEMANCPA Metric Response
JSON SCHEMAJSON Structure 2
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Nagios Check Result Structure
JSON STRUCTURENagios Xi Host Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 7
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
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Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Nagios — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 2
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 7
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 4
The organization behind the API
Other 10
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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