As Joey explains, Activity Monitor consumes a lot of resources and yields little usable data. Here are some third-party alternatives. I get to work with a lot of customers, so I get to see a lot of ...

The role of servers in your organization has changed substantially — with their uses, requirements, and complexity all increasing dramatically in recent years. Many of the traditional tools and ...

After jumping into the Proxmox rabbit hole ages ago, I began experimenting with virtual guests en masse. Now that I’ve finally put together a setup comprising my favorite LXCs and VMs on powerful PVE ...

If your data center houses Linux servers, you'll be glad to know there's an easy way to monitor those machines. Jack Wallen shows you how with the help of nmon. If you make use of Linux in your data ...

I have a mostly Win2K3 environment and I am thinking of getting a solution to monitor all of them. I understand that there are solutions like SMS, but I was wondering if there was any standalone, ...

How to deploy the Percona database performance monitor with Docker Your email has been sent If you're a database admin, you might want to be able to keep track of the performance of those servers.

Often referred to as network monitoring, this category includes tools for monitoring computer networks for component updates and being able to be notified via email, SMS or alarm systems in case of an ...

I've been learning Nagios but after reading and going over the whole application I think it's very complicated. After talking with the boss, he mentioned if I could find a decently priced monitoring ...