Server Monitoring

Ensure critical applications are running smoothly.

Monitoring the performance and availability of critical servers is an essential task for IT admins and MSPs. For businesses with lot of branch offices such as large retail chains, monitoring internal work flows is crucial to avoid server bottlenecks and to ensure maximum efficiency. These tasks can be simplified with the server monitoring service from Site24x7.

Server monitoring service from Site24x7 is a Windows agent based monitoring solution that helps monitor the availability and performance of backend systems such as servers and desktops across branch offices and datacenters. It monitors critical metrics such as CPU usage, memory and disk utilization for Windows machines and alerts you if there is any downtime.

What does Site24x7's Server Monitoring provide?

 

Server monitoring provides you with reliable information about the performance of various critical elements of your server. Thresholds can be configured and notifications will be sent immediately via SMS/Email/Twitter/RSS feeds if any of the resources/usage statistics violate the set thresholds.

Site24x7's extensive reporting features help IT administrators understand usage patterns and plan resource requirements well in advance. The analysis of server metrics over a period of time also aides in capacity planning, identify bottle necks and gain maximum efficiency.

In addition to monitoring servers via installed agents, Site24x7 offers agentless monitoring from the cloud for your DNS, mail servers, websites, web applications, TCP/IP Ports and Ping. These capabilities help monitor all the aspects of a server typically used as web infrastructure.

Here is how a sample server monitor page in Site24x7 looks like:


Site24x7 - server monitoring service

How does server monitoring work?

 

Site24x7 provides a downloadable Windows agent that can be installed in the servers that need to be monitored. Once the agent is installed, the agent will start collecting the server metrics such as CPU usage, memory usage and disk usage every 5 minutes. The agent uses WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) protocol for data collection. This data will be pushed and stored in Site24x7 server. Thresholds can be configured and notifications will be sent if any of the resources/usage statistics cross the set thresholds.

Site24x7 - server monitoring service

Key Benefits of using Site24x7 Server Monitoring

 
  • Reliable monitoring service spanning 35+ monitoring stations worldwide.
  • Monitor critical server metrics such as CPU load, available memory, used memory, available swap space and disk usage.
  • Hosted server monitoring service that saves you the overheads of costly installed software.
  • Aides in capacity planning.
  • Receive instant alerts via SMS/email/RSS/Twitter whenever resources cross your set threshold limits.
  • Supports monitoring of other network applications like SMTP, HTTP, POP, ping, DNS and FTP.
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