monitoring software with api/service to pull data

[Alexander Kraev]

Hi,

The new Zabbix 1.7.3 has JSON-RPC based API.

http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14716&goto=newpost

Regards,
Alex

Aljoša Mohorović wrote:
> i'm looking for software that provides things like nagios (my current
> option) but provides an API or some kind of service (rest, soap, ...)
> which would enable me to retrieve data using some programming language
> (preferably python).
> few examples:
> - "get data for all network traffic via http"
> - "get data for all network traffic via http that was requested for
> domain example.com"
> - "get data for all network traffic via http that was requested for
> domain example.com in time frame 1/1/2008 - 1/2/2008"
> 
> what i'm looking for is some software that does system monitoring and
> alerting stuff but also provides high level api/service to retrieve
> data useful for creating reports.
> any ideas? or should i stick with nagios and use nagios options?
> 
> Aljosa Mohorovic
>