Well, monitoring tools like nagios are more used against in production or mission critical infrastructure/apps. While unit tests are a part of development practices and there are dedicated tools (called as Continuous Integration tools) used for checking unit tests outputs. Jenkin/Hudson, crucise control, goldberg, Go etc are few of them. These tools can monitor a code repository (git/svn/hg etc) and pull in new commits and then run the unit/functional test automatically and then notify/alert accordingly. If your unit tests are failing, then it means they are not going via a CI tool. To me testing and monitoring are pretty different. Never the less, i like the idea :-). We do use nagios-cucumber for work flow monitoring against some of our apps. <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 3:55 AM, Vonnahme, Nathan <<a href="mailto:nathan.vonnahme@bannerhealth.com">nathan.vonnahme@bannerhealth.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"> <div> Hello Nagios devs, I’ve been pretty dormant on these lists for a while, partly because our Nagios installation is humming along so merrily, and partly because my job has changed to be more development-oriented and less sysadmin-oriented. But I had a great idea (imho) last week and I’ve implemented and wrote about it and I want to share it with you and solicit feedback. In a nutshell, I’ve written a plugin to integrate Nagios with any software testing tool that emits TAP (Test Anything Protocol), such as Perl test scripts and unit and functional tests written in a bunch of different languages. I’ve described it in detail in a blog post: <a href="http://n8v.enteuxis.org/2011/06/integrating-nagios-with-test-driven-development/" target="_blank">http://n8v.enteuxis.org/2011/06/integrating-nagios-with-test-driven-development/</a> And the code is on GitHub: <a href="https://gist.github.com/1005409" target="_blank">https://gist.github.com/1005409</a> I’ve been pretty excited about the idea and have already been using it in production to improve several parts of our Nagios monitoring. Please take a look at it and let me know your thoughts via these lists or comments on the blog or Gist. Thanks, nathan -- Nathan.Vonnahme@BannerHealth.com Software Engineer Sr at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital 1650 Cowles St, Fairbanks, Alaska 99701 907-458-5464 </div> </div> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. <a href="http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev" target="_blank">http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:Nagios-devel@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-devel@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-devel</a> </blockquote></div>