Server Performance Monitor

Servers are an important part of company networks. A server performance monitor such as PRTG Network Monitor helps you to detect and troubleshoot server performance issues which can be the reason for slow network connections.

PRTG is a comprehensive network management and monitoring software. The tool offers a number of sensors which make server monitoring easy:

• SNMP sensors show you parameters such as the CPU load or memory usage of your servers, enabling you to see when the load on your servers is getting too high
• The SQL sensors allow you to monitor the most commonly implemented SQL servers: MySQL, Microsoft SQL, and Oracle SQL. The sensors monitor whether the database server accepts and processes requests. Additionally, you can run a custom SQL command and check the return values.
• WMI sensors allow you to monitor free disk space on your server
• Email monitoring: Mail server sensors check the availability of mail services, such as POP or SMTP, and monitor Microsoft Exchange Servers
• Using the syslog sensor, PRTG works as a syslog server for Windows, which compiles and analyzes syslog messages sent by the network devices in one central place,
• In a similar fashion, the SNMP Trap receiver sensor converts PRTG into an SNMP Trap monitor, which collects and scrutinizes SNMP Traps
• With its VMware and Hyper-V sensors, the server performance monitor also allows you to monitor virtual servers
• If you are using Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) to host one or more servers, you can monitor the performance of your hosted servers using PRTG's Amazon Cloudwatch sensors.
• Web Servers are monitored using http sensors, which can check the availability, load time and content of a website

Thanks to PRTG's flexible alerting system, you can set up alarms to warn you if one of your servers is overloaded or performing poorly, enabling you to detect possible network issues at an early stage and to react before outages and downtimes occur. With only one installation of the server performance monitor, you can even monitor servers and networks in various locations.

The software's comprehensive functionality gives you a complete view of your network and makes it easy to compare current performance to historic data. Apart from monitoring server performance, PRTG also includes bandwidth and packet loss test as well as QoS monitoring capabilities, and lets you create custom sensors.

Webserver Stress Tool - An Advanced Server Performance Monitor

Paessler also offers Webserver Stress Tool, an advanced server performance monitor which simulates the HTTP requests generated by hundreds or even thousands of simultaneous users. Using this web load test tool, you can test your web server performance under normal and excessive loads to ensure that critical information and services are available at the speed that end users expect.