# NRPE (Nagios Remote Plugin Executor)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/nagios/nrpe/  
**Provider:** Nagios — https://apis.io/providers/nagios/  
**Base URL:** tcp://{nrpe-host}:5666  
**Documentation:** https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nrpe

NRPE (Nagios Remote Plugin Executor) is one of 13 APIs that [Nagios](https://apis.io/providers/nagios/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Monitoring, Active Check, Binary Protocol, and NRPE.

Daemon that runs Nagios plugins on a remote Linux/Unix host on TCP port 5666, returning the plugin's exit code and output to the Nagios server. Binary protocol, not REST.

## Machine-readable artifacts (1)

- **GitHub** — https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nrpe

## Other Nagios APIs (12)

- [NSCA (Nagios Service Check Acceptor)](https://apis.io/apis/nagios/nsca/)
- [Nagios Config API](https://apis.io/apis/nagios/nagios-config-api/)
- [Nagios CPU API](https://apis.io/apis/nagios/nagios-cpu-api/)
- [Nagios Disk API](https://apis.io/apis/nagios/nagios-disk-api/)
- [Nagios Interface API](https://apis.io/apis/nagios/nagios-interface-api/)
- [Nagios Memory API](https://apis.io/apis/nagios/nagios-memory-api/)
- [Nagios Objects API](https://apis.io/apis/nagios/nagios-objects-api/)
- [Nagios Plugins API](https://apis.io/apis/nagios/nagios-plugins-api/)
- [Nagios Processes API](https://apis.io/apis/nagios/nagios-processes-api/)
- [Nagios Services API](https://apis.io/apis/nagios/nagios-services-api/)
- [Nagios Submission API](https://apis.io/apis/nagios/nagios-submission-api/)
- [Nagios System API](https://apis.io/apis/nagios/nagios-system-api/)

## Tags

Monitoring, Active Check, Binary Protocol, NRPE

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