Server Monitoring Software

Definition - What does Server Monitoring Software mean?

Server monitoring software is a type of software that reviews, analyzes, monitors and manages the processes and operations of a server.

It is used by server administrators to keep track of the performance of one or more servers within an IT environment.

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Techopedia explains Server Monitoring Software

Server monitoring software primarily provides server administrators with server-wide performance, availability and security metrics. It can provide data such as:

CPU and RAM utilization
Number of suspicious/malicious packets and/or intruder attacks
User load
Bandwidth consumption

These results are sent to network administrators so they can optimize server performance. Server monitoring software can be a standalone application or a component of network/IT monitoring software. Moreover, it measures and provides statistical and/or visual reports into processor, memory, storage, applications as well as network and other server metrics.