10 Best Linux Monitoring Tools and Software to Improve Server Performance [2022 Comparison]

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Sematext

Sematext’s server monitoring tool provides real-time visibility into the performance of your Linux servers by showing your current and historical resource utilization and collecting key performance metrics, such as CPU, memory, disk usage, processes, network, and load. Sematext also provides a server inventory software that gives you a unified view of your Linux servers, with information such as kernel version, distribution, hardware details, and installed packages.

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Zabbix

Zabbix offers out-of-the-box templates with pre-configured metrics, triggers, graphs, applications, screens, and rules that you can view and use on a central Zabbix server. It also allows you to configure triggers based on logical tests for monitored statistics (for example, if the load average is too high, per CPU, on a Linux server). Then you can define an action based on the trigger event to deliver notifications and alerts through e-mail, SMS, script alerts, or webhooks—or let Zabbix fix the problem by executing remote scripts.

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Prometheus

Prometheus and Grafana are used together as an open-source monitoring and alerting solution with support for Linux servers. Prometheus mainly collects the Linux hardware and OS metrics exposed by *nix kernel and then stores as time-series data, using a pull model over HTTP. You can find metrics information in a multi-dimensional data model of the timestamped metrics (i.e., metrics with their collection times, alongside labels/key-value pairs).

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Nagios Core

Nagios Core is an open-source Linux/Unix systems monitoring and alerting tool that can be extended through custom plugins, providing flexible Linux server monitoring. It remotely executes different plugins (executables or scripts) on your Linux server using the NRPE (Nagios Remote Plugin Executor) add-on, which gives you comprehensive monitoring data, including OS metrics, services/processes state, CPU, memory, ping rate, and disk usage. There are a lot of community plugins for different Linux server distributions.

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SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) offers automated tools that allow you to track the performance of your applications and Linux servers. It lets you easily view the usage of Linux server resources, such as CPU, memory, disk usage, networking, and processes, so that you can optimize server and application configurations.

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) offers automated tools that allow you to track the performance of your applications and Linux servers. It lets you easily view the usage of Linux server resources, such as CPU, memory, disk usage, networking, and processes, so that you can optimize server and application configurations.

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Application Monitor

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) offers automated tools that allow you to track the performance of your applications and Linux servers. It lets you easily view the usage of Linux server resources, such as CPU, memory, disk usage, networking, and processes, so that you can optimize server and application configurations.

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ManageEngine OpManager

ManageEngine OpManager is a great tool that offers network and performance monitoring capabilities for Linux servers, giving you real-time visibility into metrics such as CPU usage, memory usage, disk I/O utilization, server availability, and network traffic. You also get auto-discovery of all services running on these servers, which can help you automatically map availability and response time. Customizable dashboards feature tons of built-in performance widgets to fit your monitoring needs.

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Site24x7

Site24x7 is a cloud-based monitoring software for websites and infrastructure components, such as Linux servers, applications, networks, and cloud services. You can install its agent on your Linux server to collect more than 60 performance metrics, including load average, CPU, memory, disk, network bandwidth utilization, and recent Linux syslogs.

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Datadog

Datadog is a SaaS-based monitoring solution compatible with Linux and Unix systems. On your Linux server, you can install the Datadog agent, which automatically collects standard performance metrics, such as CPU and disk usage, and sends them to your Datadog account. Datadog’s real-time Linux monitoring capabilities allow you to visualize the health and performance of your Linux servers. The tool’s Live Processes view collects information about the process trees running on your Linux server, giving you the data views you need to understand spikes in resource usage caused by certain processes and applications.

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logstash

Lastly, the Elastic Stack (ELK Stack) is a well-known tool for Linux performance monitoring. It’s composed of Elasticsearch (full-text search), Logstash (a log aggregator), Kibana (visualization via graphs and charts), and Beats (lightweight metrics collectors and shippers).

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logz.io ELK Stack

You can leverage all of ELK Stack’s capabilities to monitor your Linux servers by installing Metricbeat (an Elastic Beat), then configuring it to periodically collect system and service metrics including CPU, memory usage, disk, and network IO statistics. Metricbeat ships them to the rest of the ELK Stack for transformation, visualization, and alerting.

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Kibana

Lastly, the Elastic Stack (ELK Stack) is a well-known tool for Linux performance monitoring. It’s composed of Elasticsearch (full-text search), Logstash (a log aggregator), Kibana (visualization via graphs and charts), and Beats (lightweight metrics collectors and shippers).

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Nagios

Nagios Core is an open-source Linux/Unix systems monitoring and alerting tool that can be extended through custom plugins, providing flexible Linux server monitoring. It remotely executes different plugins (executables or scripts) on your Linux server using the NRPE (Nagios Remote Plugin Executor) add-on, which gives you comprehensive monitoring data, including OS metrics, services/processes state, CPU, memory, ping rate, and disk usage. There are a lot of community plugins for different Linux server distributions.

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Metricbeat

You can leverage all of ELK Stack’s capabilities to monitor your Linux servers by installing Metricbeat (an Elastic Beat), then configuring it to periodically collect system and service metrics including CPU, memory usage, disk, and network IO statistics. Metricbeat ships them to the rest of the ELK Stack for transformation, visualization, and alerting.

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Paessler

PRTG Network Monitor from Paessler is a Linux performance monitoring software that uses sensors to monitor a single metric in your network (e.g., the traffic of a switch port, CPU load, or free drive space). You typically need about 5–10 sensors per Linux server.

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PagerDuty

Datadog provides interactive dashboards to analyze your monitoring and performance data, and you can set up server automated alerts for performance thresholds, violations, or anomalies. It supports sending notifications via e-mail, Slack, webhooks, and PagerDuty.

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