All About Open-Source Monitoring Tools

Hey Folks, 

As per the topic, you all would have understood what we are going to discuss today, since a long time, you have been listening to the word called Monitoring, from so many places.

I am assuming you all are having basic knowledge of Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation and how they work.

If still, some of you may not have an idea about all these terms. No worries, friends before jumping to the topic I would suggest you all first check the mentioned blog to cover some basic fundamentals: ALL ABOUT MONITORING (A COMPLETE GUIDE TO MONITORING)

So, let’s back to today's topics of Monitoring…!!! as of now, we all know about monitoring and its importance but now it's the time to level up you all into the next steps towards a high-level understanding of monitoring. 

As we all have so many questions in our minds like:

• How do we do the monitoring? 
• How can we monitor a server? 
• How do big companies monitor their system? 
• Do they have any thermometer to monitor a server? 
• How servers are down will be reported for human intervention?  
• How alert mail is triggered and an intimation email received? 
• How…? How…? How…?

Questions?

Relax folks!!! today we all will find the answer to these questions which are coming to your mind.

So, whenever we are receiving alerts about servers being down defiantly there is some technique or software which is present in between to help us to receive such monitoring alerts about the servers. Basically, those techniques or software are known as tools.

So, let's learn about those tools. Here in the market, there are lots of tools available for monitoring some are free, and some are paid.

Types of Monitoring Tools:

1. Open-source monitoring tools.
2. Enterprise monitoring tools.

Before moving to understand open-source monitoring let's understand some basics things about open source monitoring.

What is open-source monitoring? 

Open-Source Technology and Monitoring. In software terms, “open source” 

Means applications and their source code are available for the public to download and modify free of cost.

 Anyone can access, edit, and supplement the code to create an enhanced version of the application

Open-source monitoring involves using open-source software for IT infrastructure and application monitoring operations.

Open-Source Monitoring

What are open-source monitoring tools and their use?

The software which we used to monitor our operations is called monitoring tools. Monitoring tools are used to continuously keep track of the status of the system in use. 

Open-Source Monitoring Tools

Why do we use Open-source monitoring tools?

• It’s available at (almost) No-Cost.
• No imposed updates.
• Improved security.

Benefits of Open-source monitoring tools:

• Failure indicator
• Automated (no manual monitoring)
• Reduce downtime
• Auto Alert

 

Benefits Open-Source Monitoring

Enterprise monitoring Tools:

Enterprise monitoring tools are those tools that are available to use for monitoring the servers and operations but with some fees.

They are not free and as they are not free means they are having some additional functionalities better than open-source monitoring tools.

Though some of the extra functionalities which are present in enterprise tools are available in the open-source tools for that we need to configure and we need to put some extra effort to use those functionalities for free.

So, it is always recommended to pay some amount of fees to save time to utilize our vim for more worthwhile attributions.  

Enterprise Monitoring Tools

Thanks & Regards,

Kanchan Soni

(A girl who saw the dream with an open eye to compete with self capability in the area of IT and its Next-Gen Technology, with the ability to complete the task with perfection.)

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