DNS Monitoring Tool for Server Performance and Health Checks
Improve DNS performance monitoring with easy-to-use tools
Use a DNS user experience monitor to ensure issues don’t impact end users
SolarWinds® Server & Application Monitor (SAM) is built to monitor DNS server performance and help head off issues that could affect end-user experience. SAM can be used as a DNS user experience monitor to help SysAdmins check DNS server ability and ensure the server responds to a record query within an acceptable threshold. SolarWinds SAM is designed to compare query response time against a list of IP addresses to help ensure DNS is performing at an acceptable baseline.
Use DNS performance monitoring to check multi-vendor server hardware health
With SAM’s DNS server monitoring tools, you can receive a holistic view of the health and performance of multi-vendor DNS server hardware. SAM is designed to proactively notify you before failure occurs across critical server components like fan speed, temperature, power supply, CPU, battery, and hard drive status.
SAM is also built to support DNS server management for different types of servers, including Dell PowerEdge, HP ProLiant, IBM eServer xSeries servers, Dell PowerEdge Blade, HP BladeSystem enclosures, Microsoft Windows Server, and VMware vSphere hypervisor.
Manage DNS server requests with improved DNS monitoring
The DNS server health check tools in SAM can help monitor your DNS server requests, so you never receive more requests than your resources can handle. By setting baseline thresholds—and receiving alerts when those thresholds are exceeded—you can also have more control over how much work your DNS server is doing. With better control over request volume, you can ensure your DNS server performance levels are high and won’t affect end users.
Optimize resource utilization and improve DNS server troubleshooting
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor provides built-in capacity forecast charts and metrics, so you can more easily identify when server resources are close to exceeding baseline thresholds. You can also trace peak and average DNS capacity levels over time to make accurate capacity forecasts and fix capacity issues before they affect end-user productivity and business performance. You can also monitor key metrics like response time, CPU load, memory utilization, network latency, packet loss, and more.
Strengthen performance with in-depth DNS server troubleshooting
DNS problems can manifest as delivery delays and site downtime. With SAM as your DNS monitoring tool, you can dig into errors and misconfigurations to tackle time to live (TTL) and latency issues. You can also perform in-depth DNS server troubleshooting, including checking TCP/IP settings, flushing the DNS cache, and reviewing website domain names.
For instant insight into whether the server is responding accurately and quickly to queries, set alerts with the user experience DNS monitoring tool in SolarWinds SAM.
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Do you find yourself asking…
DNS monitoring is the process of inspecting all Domain Name System (DNS) activity to ensure high levels of performance.
DNS is a hierarchical, decentralized naming system for computers and devices connected to the internet. It acts as a distributed directory service to help computers and servers translate commonly used domain names into numerical IP addresses. DNS allows end users to input easily readable host and domain names into a browser, so they don’t have to enter long, cryptic IP addresses.
DNS downtime can have a negative impact across your infrastructure and end users. When the DNS server supporting your organization experiences downtime, services like websites and proxy servers may become unavailable to both clients and employees. As a result, DNS server downtime can negatively affect both worker productivity and lead to poor customer sentiment.
Since DNS server failure has the potential to render a whole network unusable, it’s important to have solutions in place to help prevent and reduce DNS service outages. By monitoring DNS records and activity, you can better ensure the DNS routes traffic properly to sites, web services, or any other electronic communications.
DNS monitoring is the process of inspecting all Domain Name System (DNS) activity to ensure high levels of performance.
DNS is a hierarchical, decentralized naming system for computers and devices connected to the internet. It acts as a distributed directory service to help computers and servers translate commonly used domain names into numerical IP addresses. DNS allows end users to input easily readable host and domain names into a browser, so they don’t have to enter long, cryptic IP addresses.
DNS downtime can have a negative impact across your infrastructure and end users. When the DNS server supporting your organization experiences downtime, services like websites and proxy servers may become unavailable to both clients and employees. As a result, DNS server downtime can negatively affect both worker productivity and lead to poor customer sentiment.
Since DNS server failure has the potential to render a whole network unusable, it’s important to have solutions in place to help prevent and reduce DNS service outages. By monitoring DNS records and activity, you can better ensure the DNS routes traffic properly to sites, web services, or any other electronic communications.
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