Web Server Capacity Planning
Simplify capacity planning and forecast server resource requirements
Monitor server capacity and resource usage for server capacity planning
Not knowing how your server resources are being used against the available capacity can cause resource contention issues and affect server performance. System admins need to stay on top of their server capacity calculations to avoid being blindsided when their servers start experiencing problems and impacting performance.
SolarWinds® Server & Application Monitor (SAM) helps you do this by providing built-in capacity forecast charts and metrics to help you identify when server resources reach warning and critical thresholds. You can trend peak and average capacity over time to make more accurate capacity forecasts—in addition to finding and fixing server capacity issues before they impact end-user productivity and business function. With effective server capacity planning, you can help ensure consistent, optimal performance.
Optimize server and hardware resource investments through right-size resource allocation
Staying on top of what resource investments you need and where can help you save money overall. With Server & Application Monitor, you can take the guesswork out of the server sizing process and avoid unnecessary costs for server hardware resources when you encounter poor server performance.
SAM server sizing and capacity planning functions help you quickly see what your current resource utilization is and what it was in the past. The tool tracks how much CPU, memory, and storage hardware are consumed from applications running on physical and virtual servers. This visibility enables you to know if your infrastructure is healthy and adequately supporting its applications and provides insights that allow you quickly take action if there’s an issue, like finding and killing processes consuming excess memory, so you can more easily optimize performance. SAM allows you to identify resource hogs impacting the overall performance of your IT environment.
Use monitoring templates to stay on top of server capacity calculations
Your physical and virtual servers’ capacity planning can be much easier said than done. SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor was designed to make the process easier with out-of-the-box monitoring templates covering public, private, and hybrid cloud environments.
SAM offers continuous server monitoring to help you stay on top of key metrics for your server clusters, so you can be confident they’re available and operating at their peak level of performance. SAM provides historical and real-time health and performance information and resource capacity forecasting, making you better equipped to engage in server sizing calculations and plan for your future capacity needs.
If SAM doesn’t already have the template you’re looking for, you can create custom templates for anything you may want to monitor or alert on. This includes server clusters, web-based applications, IoT devices, custom IT infrastructure components, and more.
Create customized alerts to more effectively track key server capacity metrics
Even if you have a tool to monitor your server capacity for you, it can still be difficult to stay ahead of problems without an effective alerting system in place. SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor tackles this problem head on thanks to its easily customizable alerts. You can implement alerts for any monitored element of your environment, including your server clusters. When SAM detects a problem with any of its monitored components, it will automatically notify your team, so you can act before the issue impacts performance.
Gain visibility into server capacity issues with a unified AppStack dashboard
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) can give you a lot of insight into your server utilization and available capacity to help with your server cluster planning on its own.
If you want to dive deeper into your server capacity issues and make more informed optimization decisions, you can get a unified view of your entire application stack with the SolarWinds AppStack™ dashboard. The AppStack feature helps you identify capacity issues at every level using:
- Server & Application Monitor: Track down resource contention issues at the server level.
- Virtualization Manager: Identify decayed and orphaned VMs, control VM sprawl, and forecast how much VM workload can be handled by host resources.
- Storage Resource Monitor: Forecast growth rates for NAS and SAN arrays and analyze when capacity will be reached.
Prepare for the future with server capacity planning software
Server & Application Monitor
- Automate application discovery and server cluster monitoring
- Quickly monitor the performance and availability of Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS services
- Leverage built-in templates with best practices
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SAM, an Orion module, is built on the SolarWinds Platform
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