Psychz - Sharad
Votes: 0Posted On: Mar 07, 2018 06:13:19
There are many popular, widely used systems and server monitoring tools available in the market and deciding which tool suits your requirement depends on various factors including your current infrastructure you want to monitor and resource you want to spend on developing and integrating the free monitoring tool versus a commercial product.
Open source tools are good for the development team as they can customize it as per the requirement but since these are for free they can carry few toolkits that can be used.
Before spending a significant portion of your IT budget on application and server monitoring tools, consider these free tools for monitoring your IT needs and environment
Following are some of the Popular and widely used Monitoring tools available for free online for both Windows and Linux servers.
NAGIOS
Platform: Windows/Linux
www.nagios.com
It is an open source application that focuses on system monitoring, protocol monitoring, application monitoring, database monitoring, log monitoring and bandwidth monitoring among others.
There are various Nagios agents available in the market that perform multiple functions.
Some of the key features are -
-Centralized view of entire monitored IT infrastructure
-Detailed status information available through web interface
-Fast detection of infrastructure outages
-Alerts can be delivered to technical staff via email or SMS
-Escalation capabilities ensure alert notifications reach the right people
SolarWinds Server Health Monitor
Platform: Windows/Linux
www.solarwinds.com
SolarWinds monitoring tool helps you track the health, status, and availability of server hardware.
It helps you to keep a check on the status and performance of critical server hardware components, such as fan speed, temperature, power supply, CPU, battery, and more. Any type of critical hardware issue that can impact server or application performance can be easily identified using this tool. It is compatible with various latest hardware including Dell® PowerEdge™, HP® ProLiant®, IBM® eServer xSeries servers, and VMware® ESX/ESXi hypervisor.
ZABBIX
Platform: Windows/ Linux
www.zabbix.com
Zabbix is the ultimate enterprise-level software designed for real-time monitoring of millions of metrics collected from tens of thousands of servers, virtual machines, and network devices. It has great visualization support including user-defined views, zooming, and mapping. It can send out alerts via email, SMS or instant message.
Zabbix setup and configuration is quite easy ensuring a low learning curve and therefore low cost of ownership. A centralized monitoring system allows you to store all information (configuration and performance data) in a relational database for easier processing and re-use of data.
ICINGA
Platform: Windows/ Linux
www.icinga.com
Icinga began as a Nagios fork and later on built an independent product called Icinga 2 which is faster, easy to configure and could scale significantly better.
Icinga monitoring framework allows you to monitor all the available systems in your network, which alerts you in a case of an alarm in many ways and provides you with a database for your SLA reporting.
Features:
-Monitoring of network services, host services, and server components
-Support for event handlers and notifications
-Phone, SMS, call and email support
-Cross-platform support for various OS
-Parallelized service checks
-You can choose between 2 user interfaces, Classic UI and Icinga web
-Template-based reports
CACTI
Platform: Windows/ Linux
www.cacti.net
Cacti is mainly a front-end graphing tool for system data, but it can also handle data collection. Data gathering happens in a cron job via an external script that feeds metrics which Cacti stores in a MySQL® database. With Cacti, you can create all kinds of graphs that can be displayed and organized in a number of different ways. Cacti works with user permissions, allowing certain users access to specific charts or graphs.
