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System monitoring is essential for any organization to understand what is causing an issue in the system during the crisis time. Usually organizations rely more on servers and services hosted on cloud, file storage, cloud hosting for own databases and apps. To handle such hybrid environments, they would need a sophisticated monitoring solution. Having tools to monitor bandwidth, netflow and sFlow traffic helps to monitor the health of the network. But having critical system monitoring tools helps to monitor the activity, capacity and health of hosts and applications.

In a critical monitoring tool in order to keep the system fit for purpose, it should cover the properties like: Acceptable delivery speeds, Constant availability, Preventative maintenance, Software version monitoring and patching, Intrusion detection, Data integrity, Security monitoring, Attack mitigation, Virus prevention and detection. Having these critical system monitoring tools will help organizations to reduce customer support costs, prevents loss of income caused by system outages or vulnerability attacks, prevents data leakage leading to litigation, prevents hardware damage and loss of business-critical data (Kimball, 2020).

Having best system monitoring tool helps to manage all devices from a centralized dashboard and gives complete control over server infrastructure and network. These tools help to monitor every aspect such as networks, servers, devices, and helps to stay on top of security and performance. Windows systems come with a built-in monitoring tool “Task Manager” which gives understanding of current running processes but doesn’t have features of alerting or reporting. Some of the top system monitoring tools are: SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, ManageEngine, Paessler PRTG, Operations bridge, Zabbix, Pandora FMS, Spiceworks network monitor (Netadmintools, 2020).

References:

Kimball, J. (2020, January 16). 8 Best System Monitoring Tools for Windows & Linux. Retrieved from https://www.comparitech.com/net-admin/system-monitoring-tools/

Netadmintools. (2020, January 10). Best System Monitoring Software & Tools For Windows, Linux and other Server Platforms. Retrieved from https://www.netadmintools.com/system-monitoring-software