Server Monitoring

[Sarah]

I would like to know which is the ideal software for monitoring server availability, load etc?

[Administrator]

Hi Sarah. There are multiple monitoring softwares available in the market. But, IMHO nagios and newrelic are the best ones.

With Nagios you can perform services and server level monitoring. It helps you to monitor services, load, disk usage, processes, mail queue, RBL listing, etc.

With newrelic, you get alerts for server health issues, including CPU utilization, memory utilization, disk I/O utilization, and disk capacity. See processes prioritized by memory or CPU consumption. Track server health availability in cloud, physical, or hybrid environments. Monitor which server has capacity issues & perform corrective action.

[Sarah]

Thanks for the reply.  I am looking ahead to good performance monitoring and uptime monitoring. It will be great if I get pinged load spikes, downtimes etc. I am used to working with Pingdom however it does not offer performance monitoring.

[Administrator]

Hi Sarah. newrelic is good to start with. For nagios you will have to setup a nagios server and configure it. An additional server OR VPS will increase the cost. newrelic has it's own dashboard and is easy to manage.

Yes, you will be able to gauge the server performance & newrelic will suite your requirements.

[Sarah]

Thanks for the information. I guess I'll go for newrelic.