Red Hat OpenShift Monitoring

Red Hat OpenShift gives teams a powerful platform for building, deploying, and managing containerized applications. As those environments grow, monitoring becomes more important because a single cluster can include many moving parts, including nodes, operators, workloads, resource usage, and the services those applications depend on.

Nagios XI helps administrators bring OpenShift cluster health into the same monitoring platform they already use for servers, networks, applications, databases, and services. With the Red Hat OpenShift Wizard in Nagios XI, teams can configure OpenShift checks, define warning and critical thresholds, and receive alerts through familiar Nagios XI workflows.

Red Hat OpenShift monitoring is the process of tracking the health, availability, and resource usage of an OpenShift cluster. This includes understanding whether cluster nodes are ready, whether cluster operators are healthy, and whether CPU or memory utilization is approaching levels that could impact application performance.

OpenShift includes its own monitoring stack, but many IT teams still need OpenShift visibility alongside the rest of their infrastructure. Nagios XI helps close that gap by making OpenShift cluster checks part of a broader infrastructure monitoring strategy.

Nagios XI includes a Red Hat OpenShift Wizard that guides users through the process of connecting to an OpenShift cluster and selecting the checks they want to run.

The wizard can monitor:

• Node Status and Readiness
• Cluster Operators Status
• CPU Utilization
• Memory Utilization

Administrators can choose which checks to enable and define warning and critical thresholds during wizard setup. Once the wizard is completed, Nagios XI creates the OpenShift host and services so teams can verify check results from the Service Status page.

OpenShift environments are dynamic. Applications can move, scale, restart, or fail across different parts of the cluster, and infrastructure teams need a clear way to know when cluster health is drifting from normal.

With Nagios XI, administrators can:

• Monitor key OpenShift cluster health indicators from a centralized interface
• Track node status and readiness
• Monitor cluster operator status
• Watch CPU and memory utilization
• Set warning and critical thresholds for OpenShift checks
• Bring OpenShift alerts into existing Nagios XI notification and escalation workflows
• View OpenShift status alongside other monitored infrastructure

This is especially useful for teams that already rely on Nagios XI as their operational monitoring hub and want OpenShift visibility without separating container health from the rest of their environment.

Nagios XI includes a Red Hat OpenShift Wizard that helps administrators connect Nagios XI to an OpenShift cluster and configure monitoring through a guided setup process.

The best place to start is the Using the OpenShift Wizard in Nagios XI documentation. This guide walks through the full setup process, including the required OpenShift access, wizard configuration steps, threshold settings, and how to verify the new OpenShift services in Nagios XI.

For users who prefer a visual walkthrough, the How To Use The Red Hat OpenShift Wizard in Nagios XI 2026 video below shows the wizard in action and can be embedded directly on this page.

For a broader look at container monitoring in Nagios XI, the Monitoring Containers with Nagios XI webinar covers container monitoring concepts, setup considerations, Docker monitoring, and the Red Hat OpenShift Wizard.

Teams monitoring Kubernetes or K3s environments may also want to review the related Kubernetes Monitoring with Nagios XI resource.

OpenShift environments can become difficult to track as clusters grow, workloads shift, and teams manage more infrastructure across different tools. Nagios XI gives administrators a practical way to bring OpenShift health checks into the same monitoring platform they already use for the rest of their environment.

Start a free trial or book a demo of Nagios XI to see how OpenShift monitoring fits into your environment.