What is PA Server Monitor?
It is a server monitoring and network monitoring software application. The main function of the software is to monitor performance of servers and network devices in Windows and Linux environments. Data is kept on customers servers, not stored in the cloud.
PA Server Monitor is a tool in the Monitoring Tools category of a tech stack.
Who uses PA Server Monitor?
PA Server Monitor's Features
- PA Server Monitor can watch: Event logs on local & remote Windows servers
- Ping response times
- CPU & memory usage
- Free local & server disk space
- Changed files & directories for intrusion detection
- Running Windows services
- NIC usage
- Performance counter values with threshold warnings
- POP, IMAP & SMTP mail server availability status
- Web page content & load times
- Server temperature
- Monitor servers across the Internet without a VPN with our Satellite monitoring engine
- File age
- FTP server
- Inventory data
- Log files
- Processes
- SNMP and SNMP Traps
- Syslog
- TCP Port
- Other Features include Smart Config
- Easy install
- Mobile apps
- External API
- Runs as a service
- Automated maintenance schedule
- Automatic failover
- Bulk configuration
- Configuration security
- Database options
- Embedded HTTP server
- Error auditing
- Event escalation.
PA Server Monitor Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to PA Server Monitor?
Nagios
Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring program written in C and
released under the GNU General Public License.
Kibana
Kibana is an open source (Apache Licensed), browser based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch. Kibana is a snap to setup and start using. Kibana strives to be easy to get started with, while also being flexible and powerful, just like Elasticsearch.
Grafana
Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins.
Prometheus
Prometheus is a systems and service monitoring system. It collects metrics from configured targets at given intervals, evaluates rule expressions, displays the results, and can trigger alerts if some condition is observed to be true.
Zabbix
Zabbix is a mature and effortless enterprise-class open source monitoring solution for network monitoring and application monitoring of millions of metrics.
