Prompt monitoring system

Question

Monitoring

There is the following task:
Track the dates of files on the server, and if the date_time is older than the current one, then display notifications in any way. The only thing that came to mind so far is zabbix, but maybe the habra community can suggest another solution?

Answer 1

Or just handwritten script? The OS is not specified, but this can be written without problems in both bash and bat.
Although "if the date_time is older than the current" is not very clear. If the file has not changed during the last minute - raise an alert?

Answer 2

Do you really need a monitoring system? It seems to me that you can track the modification date for a little changing and human-described set of files using a simple script in your favorite language and any tool with an interface to inotify, for example, github.com/rvoicilas/inotify-tools

Answer 3

Please describe the problem in more detail. What OS, what exactly will such a system track (for example, the date does not match - this indicates that the process that logs something has fallen, etc.). In principle, the essence is clear, but the purpose of monitoring will give more specific questions on how to implement such a scheme.

Answer 4

As far as I remember, nagios has a check for file changes out of the box, and it seems to me simpler than zabix, but zabix is ​​a more actively developing project, if you look at the future, develop monitoring, draw graphs, do escalation and track SLA, then zabbix is ​​better.