What is Ward?
It is a simple and and minimalistic server monitoring tool. It supports adaptive design system. Also it supports dark theme. It shows only principal information and can be used, if you want to see nice looking dashboard instead looking on bunch of numbers and graphs.
Ward is a tool in the Monitoring Tools category of a tech stack.
Ward is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Ward's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Ward?
Ward's Features
- Processor utilization percentage
- Processor cores count (Logical and physical ones)
- Maximum frequency of the processor
- RAM utilization percentage
- Generation of the installed RAM
- Current processes count
- Total amount of virtual memory
Ward Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Ward?
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.
Nagios
Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring program written in C and
released under the GNU General Public License.
Zabbix
Zabbix is a mature and effortless enterprise-class open source monitoring solution for network monitoring and application monitoring of millions of metrics.
