# New Nagios style NTP check

**URL:** <https://discourse.sensu.io/t/new-nagios-style-ntp-check/2363>\
**Category:** Sensu Plugins\
**Created:** [December 24, 2020, 6:45pm UTC](https://discourse.sensu.io/t/new-nagios-style-ntp-check/2363 "2020-12-24T18:45:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![dtaylor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@dtaylor](https://discourse.sensu.io/u/dtaylor)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 6:45pm UTC](https://discourse.sensu.io/t/new-nagios-style-ntp-check/2363/1 "2020-12-24T18:45:39Z")

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I’ve been working on a check for NTP using chrony, the code can be found here

> **[davetayl/Nagios-Plugins](https://github.com/davetayl/Nagios-Plugins/tree/master/check-ntp)**
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> master/check-ntp

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**Author:** ![majormoses](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.sensu.io/majormoses/32/62_2.png) [@majormoses](https://discourse.sensu.io/u/majormoses)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2020, 8:15pm UTC](https://discourse.sensu.io/t/new-nagios-style-ntp-check/2363/2 "2020-12-27T20:15:17Z")

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Hey looks like you got a great start on building this out. There are existing ruby plugins you may want to look at for further inspiration/enhancements if ruby is not your language of choice:

- [https://github.com/sensu-plugins/sensu-plugins-ntp/tree/master/bin](https://github.com/sensu-plugins/sensu-plugins-ntp/tree/master/bin)
- [https://github.com/sensu-plugins/sensu-plugins-chrony/tree/master/bin](https://github.com/sensu-plugins/sensu-plugins-chrony/tree/master/bin)