Top 10 Server Monitoring Tools to Keep Your Web Services Healthy

Monitoring your web server or host for health and performance is essential to ensure users can access your site quickly.

Below is a curated list of the best server monitoring tools available.

1. Performance Co-Pilot

Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) is a system performance and analysis framework that aggregates data from multiple hosts and provides real‑time analysis to identify abnormal patterns. It also offers an API for building custom monitoring and reporting solutions.

2. Anturis

Anturis is a cloud‑based SaaS platform for monitoring servers, websites, and IT infrastructure, offering a comprehensive set of monitoring solutions.

3. SeaLion

SeaLion is a cloud‑based Linux server monitoring tool that provides a single panel to monitor all servers, diagnose issues, and send timely alerts, with daily data aggregation.

4. Icinga

Icinga is a free open‑source server monitoring tool that checks resource availability, records problems, and notifies you.

5. Munin

Munin is a network and system monitoring tool that helps analyze server resource trends. It is plug‑and‑play and provides many default reports.

6. Monit

Monit is an open‑source tool for monitoring and managing UNIX systems. It can automatically maintain and repair services, and performs various TCP/IP checks.

7. Nagios

Nagios is a powerful open‑source server/network monitoring solution that provides comprehensive monitoring and alerting for servers, switches, applications, and services, with a plugin API for extensions.

8. brainypdm

brainypdm is a web‑based data management and monitoring tool that collects performance data from Nagios.

9. SysUsage

SysUsage uses SAR (SYSSTAT) and other system commands to monitor activity, offering threshold notifications when server capacity is near exhaustion.

10. Zabbix

Zabbix is an open‑source performance monitoring solution that can monitor servers, web applications, databases, and network devices.