# Nagios graphs
**URL:** https://forums.percona.com/t/nagios-graphs/3892
**Category:** Percona Monitoring Plugins
**Created:** [November 19, 2014, 3:55am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/nagios-graphs/3892 "2014-11-19T03:55:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Bob.Sauvage](https://forums.percona.com/u/Bob.Sauvage)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2014, 3:55am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/nagios-graphs/3892/1 "2014-11-19T03:55:00Z")
Hi there,
I’ve just checked the documentation regarding Percona monitoring plugins. The templates for Cacti are really useful, graphs like InnoDB Buffer Pool & Innodb Insert Buffer could be really interesting for us.
However, I monitor all my services through Nagios and I don’t want to have a second tool to graph some metrics. This work can be done via Nagios and the script “pmp-check-mysql-status”… How can I know the MySQL variables to use with the script “pmp-check-mysql-status” in order to create these graphs in Nagios (Graphs found in the documentation - section “Template for Cacti”) ?
Thanks,
Bob
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### Author:  [@009hnoor](https://forums.percona.com/u/009hnoor)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2015, 12:44am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/nagios-graphs/3892/2 "2015-04-25T00:44:03Z")
This work can be done via Nagios and the script “pmp-check-mysql-status”
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### Author:  [@weber](https://forums.percona.com/u/weber)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2015, 7:23am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/nagios-graphs/3892/3 "2015-04-28T07:23:46Z")
Actually, Nagios is not a good tool to create graphs, it’s possible with such plugins like Nagiosgraph etc. but I would recommend having a separate graphing tool if your monitoring is done on Nagios. You still can use Cacti.
Unlike Zabbix, which has monitoring and graphing capabilities built-in.