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Important KPIs and Server Monitoring Metrics<\/h2>\n

\"Server<\/a>Updated Nov 2022: Additional links were added to this article and the content reviewed as up to date.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

IT applications are vital for today\u2019s digital economy and for the business to succeed, these applications must be highly available and performing well. Application performance<\/a> degradations can occur for several reasons. There may be code-level issues, database slowness, or network bandwidth constraints. IT applications run on servers and if the server is not sized correctly or is under-performing, application performance will degrade as well. Therefore, it is vitally important to monitor the performance of all the servers<\/a> in your data center. In this blog, we will explore what the most important metrics for server monitoring are and why.<\/p>\n

\"ServerHistorically, the key factors affecting server performance have been utilization of server CPU and memory resources. If the CPU usage of a server is highly utilized (close to 100%) or there is high memory utilization (so there is very little free memory available on the server), the performance of applications running on that server will degrade. IT administrators should also be able to determine what are the top CPU and memory-consuming processes on the server so that they can troubleshoot and fix the resource usage issue quickly.<\/p>\n

\"ServerWhile CPU and memory monitoring are no doubt important, as server operating systems have evolved, it is important to track several other performance indicators about server operating systems that can be indicative of performance bottlenecks. This blog highlights 10 key performance indicators other than CPU and memory utilization that need to be monitored regarding server performance. These KPIs apply for any type of server, irrespective of the operating system it is running – whether Microsoft Windows, IBM AIX, HPUX, Linux variants, Oracle Solaris, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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10 Areas of Server Monitoring that are as important as CPU and Memory Monitoring<\/h2>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n

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  1. Server Uptime Monitoring<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Disk Activity Monitoring<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Page File Monitoring<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Context Switches Monitoring<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Time Synchronization Monitoring<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Monitoring Usage of Handles<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. Process Activity Monitoring <\/a><\/li>\n
  8. Network Activity Monitoring <\/a><\/li>\n
  9. TCP Activity Monitoring<\/a><\/li>\n
  10. OS Log Monitoring <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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    Monitoring Server Uptime<\/h2>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

    \"ServerUptime is the amount of time for which a system has been up and operational. Uptime can be measured since the system last booted. It can be measured during each polling cycle as well. Monitoring uptime is important because:<\/p>\n