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Server Monitoring

The document discusses server monitoring, emphasizing its importance for productivity, revenue, and reputation. It compares on-premise and cloud servers, outlines various monitoring tools including open-source options like Zabbix, Nagios, and Prometheus, and highlights their features and use cases. The document concludes with a comparison of these tools based on ease of use, data storage, and alerting capabilities.

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Server Monitoring

The document discusses server monitoring, emphasizing its importance for productivity, revenue, and reputation. It compares on-premise and cloud servers, outlines various monitoring tools including open-source options like Zabbix, Nagios, and Prometheus, and highlights their features and use cases. The document concludes with a comparison of these tools based on ease of use, data storage, and alerting capabilities.

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Server Monitoring:

Current Tools & Trends

KARTHIK RAJA K
Agenda
 Server – Introduction
 Why to monitor the severs
 On-Premise vs Cloud Server
 Server Monitoring tools
• Open Source vs Paid
• Overview of Open Source Tools: Zabbix, Nagios,
Prometheus
• Comparing Server Monitoring tools
 The End
Server - Introduction
Servers are essential for businesses, organizations, serving as the backbone of IT
infrastructure:
 Centralized Data Storage and Management:
 Stores and manages vast data
 Enabling access from anywhere in the organization.
 Resource Sharing:
 Facilitates collaboration and efficient use of resources like printers and applications.
 Application Hosting:
 Hosts critical apps like email servers and websites, supporting business processes.
 Security and Access Control:
 Implements firewalls, user access controls, and data encryption to safeguard from
cyberattacks and unauthorized access.
Why do we need to monitor the
servers?
Loss of Productivity:
 Unable to access critical applications and data,
 Leading to downtime and decreased productivity.
 Revenue Loss:
 E-commerce, online services, and revenue-generating platforms rely on
servers.
 Downtime equals lost sales opportunities and revenue.
 Reputation Damage:
 Prolonged downtime harms company reputation.
 Loss of customer trust and loyalty.
 Data Loss:
 Server failures can lead to data loss without proper backup.
 Potential irreparable damage to the business.
On-Premises vs. Cloud Servers

On-Premise Cloud Servers

 Physical Location:  Physical Location:


Servers housed within organization's Can be hosted anywhere in the world
premises.  Ownership and Control:
 Ownership and Control: Managed by third-party providers like
Full control and management by AWS, Azure, or GCP.
organization's IT staff.  Costs:
 Costs: Varies based on the usage, potential
Upfront capital expenditure with cost savings but requires regular
potential long-term savings. monitoring.
 Scalability:  Scalability:
Limited scalability, requiring additional Rapid resource scaling based on
investment for growth. demand, pay-for-usage model.
Server Monitoring tools

Open Source Paid

 Cost: Free to use  Cost: Involves licensing fees or


 Customization: Allows subscription costs.
customization and modification of  Customization: Customization may
the tool to fit specific needs. be limited compared to open-source

options.
Support: Community-driven
 Support: Typically offers dedicated
support with forums,
documentation, and user support, with customer service and
contributions. assistance.
 Examples:
 Examples:
 Datadog
• Zabbix
 Solar Winds SAM
• Nagios Core
 DynaTrace
• Prometheus
Nagios
 Mainly developed to monitor hosts and services and designed to inform
the network incidents before end-users, clients do.
 It watches hosts and services which we specify and alerts when things
go bad and when things get recovered.
 Initially developed for servers and application monitoring, it is now
widely used to monitor networks availability.
 Features:
 Monitoring of network services (SMTP,POP3,HTTP,NNTP,PING etc)
 Monitoring of host resources (Disk Usage etc.)
 Optional Web Interface for viewing current network status, problem
history, log files etc.
 Nagios can send alerts via email, SMS, or other methods when it detects
problems. It allows for customized notification escalation and
scheduling.
Zabbix
 Enterprise-level monitoring solution designed to monitor millions of
metrics in real time, collected from tens of thousands of servers, virtual
machines, network devices and applications
 Access control
Monitor changes in room temperature, use of access cards (using sensors &
SNMP) and logs.
 KPI monitoring:
Use collected metrics to create dashboards for your business KPI monitoring:
number of web visitors, number of purchases, amount of devices manufactured
per hour, etc.
 Capacity monitoring:
Monitor your infrastructure resource utilization and let Zabbix help you plan
your IT budget accordingly.
 Configuration monitoring:

Monitor software versions, keep track of installed applications and updates


 Inventory monitoring:

Manage the inventory of your devices – hardware , and software serial


numbers
 Security monitoring:

Monitor security risks by monitoring network ports, malicious software,


password files and other security entities.
Prometheus overview
 Infrastructure Monitoring: Monitor servers and virtual machines
for resource utilization and performance metrics.
 Application Monitoring: Track application-level metrics such as
latency, error rates, and throughput.
 Alerting and Notification: Supports configurable alerting rules
and notification mechanisms.
 Real-time Monitoring: Offers real-time insights into system health
by continuously collecting and storing metrics.
Prometheus Architecture
 Prometheus Server: The main hub,
scraping metrics from various targets
(servers, apps) at set intervals.
 Targets: The services Prometheus
monitors are called targets. Target can be
a host, a network equipment or a specific
service.
 Exporters: Fetches metrics from a given
system and exports them in a format that
the Prometheus server can understand.
Node Exporter: Collects hardware and
operating system metrics (CPU, memory, disk
usage, network stats, etc)
Consul Exporter: Gathers metrics from
Consul (service discovery platform)
Grafana: Open source visualization tool
that integrates with Prometheus, allowing
users to create dashboards for monitoring
and analyzing time-series data
Server Monitoring tools Comparison
Feature Zabbix Nagios Core Prometheus
Beyond traditional IT
infrastructure, It can Well-suited for Best suited for
monitor monitoring traditional Monitoring modern,
• Applications (health, IT infrastructure cloud-native
functionality checks) components like environments,
• VMs servers, switches, including
• Network performance routers, microservices,
Use Case metrics containers, and etc.

Data Separate Time Series


Storage Built-in Database External Database DB

Ease of Use Easier to Use More Complex Simpler Configuration


Data
Visualizatio Requires External
n Built-in Dashboards Tools Requires External Tools

Flexible Alerting Requires Plugin


Alerting Flexible Alerting System System Alertmanager

Supported Linux, Windows , Mac


OS Linux Linux Os
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