Server Monitoring Tools for Cloud Servers
Cloud server hosting basically is a kind of web solutions which is usually preferred by those companies and individuals, who wants to decrease the overhead costs of server hardware as well as other devices. If the Virtual private servers are not capable to fulfill your hosting requirements, then dedicated servers and cloud servers are ideal solutions for you.
There is not much difference in between cloud server hosting and dedicated servers, the only thing that concerns is the cost. Cloud Hosting is a bit expensive solution as it provides optimal security to the servers. Also, the cloud servers are much easy to administrate and through the advanced control panel the new addition of servers can be done much simply as well as all the operating system patching is completely managed.
In cloud server hosting, monitoring the servers is a very important task to make sure that the clients servers are up and in running and performing perfectly round the clock. There are several tools designed to perform these tasks. These tools ranges from checking basic things such as checking your site if running properly or not to monitoring the server processes.
Below are some tools described that are much useful in monitoring the cloud servers:
Pingdom : This is a basic tool can be used for both dedicated servers and cloud server hosting. It is a tool that checks if your website is up and running optimally and will simply email or will send you an SMS in case if your website is down due to some reason. It also monitors the response time of your website.
ServerDensity : This is a monitoring tool which basically monitors the servers load, hard disk usage, running processes etc… The core benefit of this tool is that it provides snapshots of server, when there is an issue with the server and may have vanished until the admin comes to diagnose and repair the problem. This is tool is compatible with all Linux based cloud servers.
CloudKick : It offers full monitoring of your cloud servers CPU, Disk, bandwidth, IO, Load, Memory and delivers it in a user-friendly dashboard. This tool is compatible with almost all of the cloud servers.
Using these tools, the monitoring of cloud hosting servers becomes much simpler. It is a great advantage for the providers using these monitoring tools that saves lots of time and gets rid of hassles.
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