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What is Server Monitoring?

Compute or Server infrastructure has been the backbone of the IT world for decades. Compute has evolved from on-premises hardware to programmable compute in the form of software containers which can run in on-prem data centers or in the cloud. Server monitoring software continually collects data from system resources including CPU, memory, I/O, network, and disk usage. IT operations teams use the data to prevent and resolve issues related to resource utilization, downtime and response time.

Benefits of Server Monitoring

Monitoring server performance is imperative to ensure uptime and great user experiences for web sites, applications and business services. Key benefits include:

Ensure server availability and prevent data loss;
Track responsiveness to meet SLAs for page loads and transactions;
Maintain reliability and drive capacity planning by moving workloads when server capacity thresholds are nearing;
Proactively detect and prevent any issues that might affect server performance;
Identify areas for workload optimization and reduce waste through eliminating underutilized servers.

OpsRamp Server Monitoring

The OpsRamp platform captures and aggregates critical availability and performance metrics for server infrastructure across on-prem and cloud. Metrics, alerts, incidents, reports, and dashboards help IT operations teams analyze the health of their technology services and the underlying compute instances in a single place. OpsRamp’s server monitoring capabilities include both agent-based and agentless techniques.

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Key Capabilities

Windows:

OpsRamp discovers Windows OS services, sends alerts when a service stops functioning, restarts services and monitors event logs to track the performance of custom applications and operating systems.

Linux:

OpsRamp aggregates CPU and memory utilization metrics and captures system-level log errors on Linux servers.

Metrics:

OpsRamp tracks standard OS metrics including CPU, disk and memory utilization and uptime.

Dashboards:

OpsRamp automatically curates dashboards upon onboarding. IT pros can create custom dashboards for advanced visualizations using Prometheus Query Language.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What are server monitoring tools?

Server monitoring software measures and tracks compute performance by continually collecting data from system resources including CPU, memory, I/O, network, and disk usage. IT operations teams use the data to identify, prevent and resolve performance issues related to resource utilization, downtime and response time and to track changes in server functionality.

How to choose the best server monitoring solution?

Server monitoring solutions should be able to monitor and analyze performance metrics coming from the host, the running processes and the database running on the host. In addition, being able to tie the hosts to the higher level service indicates the impact which the failure of an individual host (or several hosts) has on SLAs, or error budgets.

What are server monitoring best practices?

It’s best to standardize on a metrics framework that provides enough information, without overloading teams with too many metrics. Some common frameworks include Rate Errors Duration (RED) or Utilization Saturation Errors (USE). In general, monitoring and alerting on process or application level anomalies is often beneficial for teams that suffer from tool fatigue, which can be caused by metrics that often change, like CPU.