Clients for Linux, BSD, Windows, Mac OS X and commercial UNIXes. Database back end (MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL or SQLite). Auto-discovery mode. Web-based interface. Notifications via e-mail, SMS or ...

For about a year, my company had been struggling to roll out a monitoring solution. False positives and inaccurate after-hours pages were affecting morale and wasting system administrators' time.

If you’re looking for a real-time server monitoring tool, Netdata gives you plenty of information with a simple installation. Every IT pro knows that data is key to keeping things running smoothly. To ...

IT monitoring is largely broken up into network monitoring and everything else. Trevor Pott looks at the fundamental underpinnings of both network and server and application monitoring. Sometimes it's ...

There's an old DevOps story of a developer who, when asked by a member of the ops team why an app isn't running on the live servers, replies "It's just fine on my laptop". To which the only reply is ...