20th May 2013 - 25 minutes read time
I have been searching for a good server monitoring solution for a while so that I can keep an eye on some of the servers that I run. Tools like Smokeping, Cacti and Nagios seemed promising at the outset, but they are more concerned with bandwidth and server status, not how the server is running. What I really needed was a way to find out how much memory a server was using, how many Apache requests were being made, what the average load of the server was, and also some way of letting me know when things were under strain.
