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Top 5 Open Source Server Monitoring Tools

Engineers are increasingly embracing open-source server monitoring tools for their flexibility and cost-effectiveness. These tools offer functionality without the need for additional investments. In this article, we'll explore the top open-source server monitoring tools: Graphite, Grafana, ELK Stack, and Nagios. These actively maintained tools have thriving communities. Let's delve into their features and benefits.

How to monitor a Lotus Domino Server

Maintaining your infrastructure's stability and reliability is paramount to your business operations' success in the swiftly evolving digital era. Among the key pillars that uphold this stability is efficient and comprehensive server monitoring. This becomes crucial when working with a Lotus Domino Server, a popular, versatile platform for hosting critical business applications, email hosting, and web services.

GCP Monitoring with Graphite and Grafana

In this article, we are going to look at what are the possible options available to users in terms of monitoring their applications hosted in the Google Cloud Platform. Graphite and Grafana are examples of the great tools available for monitoring time-series metrics for your cloud-hosted applications. There are also hosted monitoring options available for Google Cloud users through MetricFire’s offering of Hosted Graphite and Hosted Grafana.

What is Chronograf?

InfluxDB is an open-source time-series database, i.e. a database optimized for storing data points collected across an interval of time. Developed by InfluxData, InfluxDB is intended for fast, high-availability storage and retrieval of many different system metrics. The entire InfluxDB project, which is housed at influxdata.com, includes: Yet with all of these tools for collecting and processing time-series data, there's still one step missing—visualizing it. That's where Chronograf comes in.

Lighthouse vs Sitespeed + Graphite: A Comparative Analysis of Web Performance Tools

Web performance is a critical aspect of delivering exceptional user experiences. To measure and optimize website performance, various tools are available, each offering unique features and capabilities. In this article, we will compare two popular web performance tools: Lighthouse and Sitespeed combined with Graphite. We'll explore the strengths and benefits of each toolset, helping you make an informed decision for your performance testing and optimization needs.

How to display a metric on a Graphite dashboard

Graphite is free and open-source software. It is used as a time-series database monitoring tool, where you can collect, store and display time-series data in real-time. As you can monitor certain metrics of this data using Graphite, it has a very useful and simple dashboard used to visualize these metrics. This article will show you how to display a metric on your Graphite dashboard. MetricFire specializes in monitoring systems.

10 Best Router Monitoring Software and Tools

Your IT infrastructure needs the best router monitoring software and tools. Are you using an option that helps employees and end-users succeed? Router monitoring software and tools have become essential for administrators to observe their IT infrastructure's traffic, prevent bottlenecks, and improve availability by predicting serious challenges before they occur. The right network monitoring tools give you insight into the overall health of your on-site infrastructure.

How to backup Whisper to the cloud

The privacy and security of our communication have become critical digital assets that enterprises should protect. The data can give companies valuable insights and allow them to develop new products and services. However, communication data can hold sensitive information such as personal details, financial records, and confidential conversations. To securely store and protect these data, Whisper, an Ethereum blockchain-based messaging protocol, was born.

Graphite Graphing and Monitoring tool

The Graphite graphing and monitoring tool is open-source software for monitoring time-series data, and it can be installed on any system, from cheap hardware to the cloud. Graphite collects time series data from infrastructure, servers, networks, and applications, and then provides the Graphite graphing UI for analyzing the data. Graphite has been around since 2008, and it has been continuously developing over the past 12 years.

Microapps vs Microservices

This article explores the rise of micro apps and microservices, driving faster and lighter software experiences. It discusses monitoring challenges in distributed systems and provides an introduction to monitoring Kubernetes. Learn about the basics, benefits, and differences of micro apps and microservices, along with insights into effective monitoring strategies. Discover MetricFire's monitoring solutions through a free trial.