diff --git a/monitoring/custom-scripts/check_mk-agent/count-streams.cfg b/monitoring/custom-scripts/check_mk-agent/count-streams.cfg
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+# config file for count-streams.sh
+STREAMERS=http://stream.openfest.org/stats
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diff --git a/monitoring/custom-scripts/check_mk-agent/count-streams.sh b/monitoring/custom-scripts/check_mk-agent/count-streams.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# This check can be used to count the number of streams from nginx
+
+STREAMERS=http://stream.openfest.org/stats
+
+if [ -e $MK_CONFDIR/count-streams.cfg ] ; then
+    . $MK_CONFDIR/count-streams.cfg
+fi
+
+if [ ! -r $MK_CONFDIR/count-streams.xsl ] ; then
+    _res=3
+    _data="UNKNOWN: Stylesheet not found"
+fi
+
+echo "<<<stream_count>>>"
+for STREAMER in ${STREAMERS} ; do
+    stream_count=`curl -sfq -m1 ${STREAMER} | xsltproc $MK_CONFDIR/count-streams.xsl -`
+
+    _warn=${1:-3}
+    _crit=${2:-6}
+
+    if [ $stream_count -ge $_crit ] ; then
+            _data="OK - stream count $stream_count"
+            _res=0
+    fi
+
+    if [ $stream_count -ge $_crit -a $stream_count -le $_warn ] ; then
+            _data="WARN - stream count $stream_count, less than expected. Min $_crit, needed $_warn"
+            _res=1
+    fi
+
+    if [ $stream_count -lt $_crit ] ; then
+            _data="CRITICAL - Streams lower than $_crit"
+            _res=2
+    fi
+
+    echo Streamcount_${STREAMER} ${_res} ${_data}
+done
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diff --git a/monitoring/custom-scripts/check_mk-agent/count-streams.xsl b/monitoring/custom-scripts/check_mk-agent/count-streams.xsl
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+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<xsl:transform xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
+        <xsl:output method="text" />
+        <xsl:template match="/">
+                <xsl:value-of select="count(/rtmp/server/application/live/stream)"/>
+        </xsl:template>
+</xsl:transform>
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