Apache Monitoring Tool for Server Performance

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SolarWinds^® Server & Application Monitor (SAM) Apache server monitor can help you deliver optimal performance and user experience on your webpages by monitoring Apache servers. SolarWinds SAM is designed to help users measure performance by monitoring key performance metrics like server uptime, idle and busy workers, total access, total traffic, server requests per second, and more.

SAM can also help give you in-depth visibility into your entire Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP environments to more easily isolate the root cause of web server issues.

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Diagnose root causes of performance issues using key Apache statistics and metrics

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When using SAM Apache server monitor, you can troubleshoot website problems like unexpected surges in traffic faster by monitoring key performance metrics of Tomcat web servers, including the following:

Free/total/maximum memory
Processing time
Total request count
Total bytes sent/received
Total error count

You can also monitor additional processes and services by adding custom components in SolarWinds SAM. These custom components can track server performance statistics like packet loss to isolate server issues capable of causing application downtime.

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Proactively monitor supporting components with an enterprise-grade Apache service monitor

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Apache monitoring with Server & Application Monitor can help you view other IT infrastructure components in your Apache web server environment, including your Linux server, your Linux operating system, and your MySQL databases. You can also get alerted about high CPU utilization and identify runaway processes impacting the performance of your Linux server.

By integrating SAM with SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer, you can also monitor wait-based response time analytics for MySQL queries and optimize database performance.

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Leverage an Apache server monitor capable of managing multi-vendor web servers and application servers

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SAM provides detailed Apache monitoring and over 1,200 application monitoring templates out of the box. With a single easy-to-use dashboard, you can monitor popular web and application servers, including Microsoft IIS, JBoss, IBM WebSphere, GlassFish, NGINX, and Oracle WebLogic.

The AppInsight™ dashboard also provides details about web server performance and application pools running on your IIS Server. Monitor worker processes, web server caches, connections, site bindings, SSL certificate expiration, and more.

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Do you find yourself asking…

What is Apache monitoring?
How does Apache monitoring work?
Why is Apache performance monitoring important?
What are the differences between monitoring performance for Apache and IIS?
What does an Apache monitor do?
How does Apache monitoring work in SAM?

Apache monitoring consists of tracking key metrics associated with the functioning of the Apache HTTP Server.

Apache HTTP Server is a popular open-source web server platform. Apache builds a bridge between the server and the website running on it to deliver files back and forth between them. Every time a user makes a request on a website, Apache takes the request to the website, fulfills it, and returns a response.

Apache monitoring solutions can offer you insight into how well this critical process is running. Apache monitoring proactively measures key web server performance metrics, such as server uptime, idle workers, traffic, and server requests per second. With this information, you can more quickly pinpoint and troubleshoot issues capable of affecting system functioning or end-user experience.

Apache monitoring consists of tracking key metrics associated with the functioning of the Apache HTTP Server.
Apache HTTP Server is a popular open-source web server platform. Apache builds a bridge between the server and the website running on it to deliver files back and forth between them. Every time a user makes a request on a website, Apache takes the request to the website, fulfills it, and returns a response.
Apache monitoring solutions can offer you insight into how well this critical process is running. Apache monitoring proactively measures key web server performance metrics, such as server uptime, idle workers, traffic, and server requests per second. With this information, you can more quickly pinpoint and troubleshoot issues capable of affecting system functioning or end-user experience.
Admins can monitor all activities in Apache by digging into key metrics made available through status modules and server access logs. For monitoring purposes, Apache breaks down its most relevant metrics into two broad categories:
Metrics you can access using access logs:
Work metrics, like latency and bytes, that successfully make it to their destinations
Error rates
Metrics you can access through status modules:
Work metrics, like the rate of requests and bytes, that should have made it to their destinations but didn’t
Resource utilization, capacity, and activity
If you look into these sources, you’ll be able to pinpoint slowdowns and troubleshoot performance issues. The exact process for enabling Apache mod_status and customizing Apache access log files will differ based on your operating system. You can also gather information about server traffic in real time with command-line tools.
There are open-source Apache server monitoring tools available, but a paid Apache monitoring solution is the best option for comprehensive performance monitoring.
Apache is often confused with Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) because they both feature a similar modular structure, but the two are compatible with different systems.
Apache is most compatible with Linux systems, as it frequently appears in a bundle of services called “LAMP”—Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Perl/Python. However, Apache can still be used with Unix and Windows systems. IIS, however, is only compatible with Windows. For monitoring purposes, IIS breaks down its most relevant metrics into two broad categories:
Metrics you can access using performance counters:
Availability metrics, such as elapsed time and service uptime
Resource metrics, such as the percent of processor time
Metrics you can access using web service logs:
HTTP request metrics, such as total method requests per second or current queue size
HTTP response metrics, such as time taken or 5xx server errors
An Apache monitor automatically collects and displays the Apache statistics most relevant to web server performance. There are many ways admins can use an Apache monitor, but the best practice is to use an Apache server monitoring tool designed to measure the following metrics:
Request processing time: How long does it take for a request to be successfully completed
Bytes (per second and per request): How many bytes are transferred to and from a server per second, or how many bytes are sent through a server per request
Worker metrics: How efficiently the server is using resources
Network bandwidth: How effectively the server is negotiating throughput needs and handling latency
CPU usage: An indicator of whether Apache has enough hardware processing power to handle requests
Memory usage: How much memory is being used on a server
Uptime: How long a server has been up and running, down to the second
Disk usage: How much disk space is devoted to Apache logging and other temporary files

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