Server Monitoring Software and Performance Monitoring Solution

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Simplify server monitoring by tracking metrics with a single, multi-vendor console

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SolarWinds^® Server & Application Monitor (SAM) is designed to replace your multiple vendor monitoring systems by providing comprehensive insights into availability and performance monitoring, alerting, and reporting for multi-vendor server hardware monitoring within a single console.

Get ahead of availability issues by tracking key health metrics for a range of servers, including Dell PowerEdge, HP ProLiant, and IBM eServer xSeries servers. SolarWinds SAM agentless server monitoring software is built to leverage best-practice thresholds for key server health monitoring metrics like hard drive status, array status, power supply status, fan status and speed, temperature status, CPU, and more.

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Use proactive performance monitoring of server environments to solve issues before they affect users

Help prevent application outages and maximize performance by monitoring uptime and downtime, capacity, and more with SolarWinds SAM. This visibility can help admins troubleshoot server issues and support performance for related applications.

Server & Application Monitor server monitoring software includes hundreds of out-of-the-box templates to monitor server and application performance, with the ability to display real-time and historical trends in intuitive and meaningful dashboards, helping you proactively address problems and manage capacity at the application layer.

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Monitor real-time processes with the help of server monitoring software

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A key feature in SAM is the Real-Time Process Explorer (RTPE). Using RTPE, you don’t need to manually log in to each machine either physically or remotely and run Task Manager to retrieve vital statistics like physical memory, virtual memory, CPU, and disk I/O. Instead, you can use the web console to display data for both the monitored and unmonitored processes for WMI and SNMP monitored nodes across your environment in a central view, which helps you better and more quickly diagnose and resolve server performance issues.

SAM’s web console is built to display data for monitored and unmonitored processes, which helps you quickly diagnose server performance issues and includes integrated server monitoring tools you can use to natively start and stop services, reboot servers, and kill rogue processes.

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Interactive performance dashboards let you control what metrics you see

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With simple and straightforward dashboards designed to pinpoint the source of the issue downing the server, Server & Application Monitor can help you quickly and easily troubleshoot the problem, helping ensure high availability of your system.

With SAM server monitoring software, you can also filter summary views by application and/or server as well as create custom dashboards with the exact applications, servers, and nodes you want to see. You can even organize dashboards for the teams supporting specific views.

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Get More on Server Monitoring

Do you find yourself asking…

What is server monitoring software?
Why is server monitoring software important?
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How server monitoring tools work
How to choose a server monitoring software
What is SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM)?
What makes SolarWinds SAM server monitoring software different

Server monitoring software is an automated tool to allow users to track key performance and health metrics for servers and applications, helping them more easily diagnose, resolve, and even prevent downtime and bottlenecks.

With effective server and application monitoring software, you can answer questions like:

Are my servers able to host applications successfully?
Could system load be balanced more efficiently?
Are there opportunities for better resource use and business cost savings?

To better understand the importance of server monitoring software, you should have a clear understanding of server monitoring as a strategy.

What is server monitoring? Server monitoring is the IT process of tracking states and changes for system resources associated with relevant servers. Monitoring server performance can enable you to understand how server resources are used, so you can better optimize server and application configurations. By monitoring and optimizing your use of server resources, or the underlying hardware and processes necessary for server functioning (particularly CPU and memory), you can work towards having both more efficient systems and improving end-user experience.

However, improving server performance using manual monitoring strategies can be difficult to do, since this can involve tracking server and application performance with a device-by-device approach. To more effectively monitor server performance across your entire infrastructure, it can be better to choose a server monitor system specifically designed for both professional usability and scalability.

Not all server monitoring software is created equal. The following features should be on your checklist when looking for a server and application monitoring solution:

Automatic app and server discovery. Look for capabilities that let you automatically discover multi-vendor applications and servers throughout your environment to help ensure monitoring can start more quickly. Additionally, this multi-vendor compatibility means you can track metrics even for virtual hosts and guests through Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESX.

Compatibility with Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure. Can you integrate the server monitoring system with popular services? Ensure you can monitor IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services through both agent-based and agentless technologies.

Built-in templates to ensure best practices. Server monitoring tools should have monitoring and troubleshooting templates for the hundreds or even thousands of applications, systems, and infrastructure components your business uses, including popular choices like Active Directory, Java, XenApp, IBM WebSphere, Skype for Business, Office 365, Microsoft IIS, and SQL Server. The software should enable you to track code-level application performance detail.

Extensive customizability to enable you to monitor what and how you want. It’s useful to be able to create custom monitors, modify built-in templates, and import your existing custom scripts. Every IT environment is different, so your monitor should be adaptable enough to help you in various scenarios, including both commercial and custom applications.

Infrastructure dependency mapping. Use server monitoring software to quickly see infrastructure dependencies and pinpoint the root cause of application issues within physical and virtual server environments. With the right kind of tool, it can be possible to identify where application issues originate in just a few seconds.

Automatic discovery of network-based relationships. A server monitoring system can help you automatically discover and visualize network-based relationships between applications and servers. Examine and monitor inbound and outbound network connections and analyze metrics, including latency and packet loss. Visualize individual application or server connections or view a complete map of application dependencies of multiple application, server, and infrastructure connections to determine if network communication issues are affecting business-critical applications.

Pre-packaged and customizable alerts and reports. Reduce alert fatigue with custom alert thresholds, or use the dynamic baselines feature to set alert thresholds and define what’s “normal.” Create server monitoring alerts based on simple or complex nested trigger conditions, defined parent/child dependencies, and more. Use one of the hundreds of built-in reports or create your own using the web-based interface to fit your business needs.

Server volume monitoring and capacity planning. Server monitors should help you plan ahead. Monitor server storage volumes, disk usage, and capacity metrics out of the box. You may also be able to troubleshoot storage issues in SAN and NAS environments.

Cross-stack IT data correlation. Best-in-class server monitoring tools may allow you to overlay performance metrics from your systems data and multiple sources (such as network, virtualization, or storage), and view data types on a single chart.

Server monitoring tools offer insights into servers and applications, which means they track key metrics over time for these components and display them for IT teams to leverage. A server monitor system helps prevent server and application outages and maximize performance by monitoring, tracking, and reporting on statuses, capacity, application, and server performance. Typically, server monitoring tools work by providing many of the following features and capabilities:

Compatibility across vendors and environments. Which servers can be monitored? Typically, you can monitor servers on-premises, in the cloud, or both, including Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, Rackspace, and more, along with remote locations like DMZ, behind NAT/firewall, or over a satellite connection or WAN. Common server types include application servers, client servers, FTP servers, mail servers, web servers, and proxy servers.

Key metrics for servers and applications. Server monitors can connect to devices through either an agent or agentless connection, typically via Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) or Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) protocols. These metrics are gathered at set intervals, depending on what’s appropriate for the component. Metrics typically include CPU utilization and disk utilization, which paint a picture of server memory use, as well as traffic and packet levels, which convey network server load.

Wondering how to measure application performance? To gather performance data, application monitoring tools can use templates focused on certain metrics relevant to the server or application. For instance, for Active Directory, the program will measure and report on relevant metrics like LDAP client service or DNS client service to indicate performance quality. That’s why it’s important to have built-in templates compatible with a wide range of applications.

In-depth analytics tools for understanding metrics. Server monitoring tools work not just by providing real-time metrics, but by offering ways to more easily understand these metrics in context. This facilitates tracking performance over time, allowing for the establishment of a historical baseline, which in turn makes it easier to plan for resource allocation and load distribution. Baselines and thresholds are critical because they provide insight into anomalies. Using dynamic baselines helps you define what's "normal" and offers better proactive server monitoring by setting change threshold values accordingly. If thresholds are crossed, the tool can also send an automatic alert to admins.

Remote server monitoring. With companies having multiple offices, data centers, and private and public clouds, remote server monitoring is vital. Using agent and agentless data collection methodologies simplifies remote server monitoring and gives you complete control over a server as if it were on-premises, regardless of where it resides.

Real-time processes. The software should monitor current processes running in your server for memory, virtual memory, CPU, and disk I/O. Avoid logging in to a machine physically or remotely to retrieve its vital statistics. Get real-time performance monitoring for metrics such as CPU load, memory load, response time, disk queue, and network throughput.

Real-time tracking of errors and performance problems. Keep an eye on current abnormalities within the server infrastructure. Diagnosing performance issues requires real-time visibility, which means network monitoring software should support automated alerts based on threshold limits for parameters that are critical for ensuring uptime. Admins can define custom alerts and set them to send by SMS, email, or other channels.

Server monitoring software is an automated tool to allow users to track key performance and health metrics for servers and applications, helping them more easily diagnose, resolve, and even prevent downtime and bottlenecks.

With effective server and application monitoring software, you can answer questions like:

Are my servers able to host applications successfully?
Could system load be balanced more efficiently?
Are there opportunities for better resource use and business cost savings?

To better understand the importance of server monitoring software, you should have a clear understanding of server monitoring as a strategy.

What is server monitoring? Server monitoring is the IT process of tracking states and changes for system resources associated with relevant servers. Monitoring server performance can enable you to understand how server resources are used, so you can better optimize server and application configurations. By monitoring and optimizing your use of server resources, or the underlying hardware and processes necessary for server functioning (particularly CPU and memory), you can work towards having both more efficient systems and improving end-user experience.

However, improving server performance using manual monitoring strategies can be difficult to do, since this can involve tracking server and application performance with a device-by-device approach. To more effectively monitor server performance across your entire infrastructure, it can be better to choose a server monitor system specifically designed for both professional usability and scalability.
There are dozens of server monitoring solutions on the market, but not all products are created equal. When choosing a server monitoring software, you should ask the following key questions:

Is it an enterprise-grade or open-source product? While the open-source price point is hard to beat, consider the downsides: no company helpline, extensive configuration and maintenance requirements that can drain IT time, and, typically, more limited features.
Is it easy to use? Don’t choose a tool that will create more work for you.
Does it monitor both servers and applications in hybrid environments? It’s not enough to look at the server “box” anymore. You need visibility across server types—including on-premises and in the cloud—as well as across the applications on these servers.
Does it automate key processes so as to optimize your workflow? This includes automatic device and application discovery and real-time insights into key metrics. But it also means you get automated alerts and even the ability to schedule reports to run at set intervals.
Does it provide tools for in-depth analytics? You want a tool to accelerate troubleshooting. You want to be able to drill down for more information about issues and errors. Additionally, you should look for visual aids like comparative metric graphs and application dependency mapping.
Does it offer options for customization? No two IT systems are identical, so best-in-class tools allow you to customize various elements as you see fit, including performance metrics, alerts, reports, dashboard features, and more.

Comprehensive server monitoring to enhance performance

Server & Application Monitor

Automatically discover apps and monitor servers across multiple vendors and server locations.
Proactively solve performance issues with real-time monitoring and analysis.
Use built-in templates that offer best practices for collecting system performance metrics.

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