Different ways of monitoring

In today's world, with increasing infrastructure, it becomes very difficult for administrators to manage servers. In order to identify the issue beforehand, and to minimize the downtime, monitors are configured on the system. We can configure multi-level monitoring on the systems, based on the infrastructure requirements for example, the OS, Web, Application, and Database level servers and individual application level. There are different ways of configuring multi-level monitoring. The following figure shows different ways to configure monitoring for any infrastructure:

Monitoring can be mainly done in three ways on a system, which are as follows:

• Third-party tools

  • Monitoring setups are configured using third-party tools present in the market, such as Wily, SiteScope, Nagios, and so on.

  • These kind of monitoring tools are used in an enterprise infrastructure setup, where there are more than 100 servers with different infrastructure components (domains) such as...