Application Performance Monitoring Tools

New Relic
New Relic is an all-in-one web and mobile application performance management provider for the cloud and the datacenter. It provides 24×7 real user monitoring and code-level diagnostics for production apps deployed on dedicated infrastructures, the cloud, or hybrid environments.
New Relic provides SaaS application performance management services for, PHP (Drupal, WordPress and more), Ruby, Java, and .NET. Its Standard level service is available free to Acquia customers and lets you monitor applications in production, troubleshoot potential performance issues proactively, and tune app for optimal long-term performance. New Relic is used by thousands of organizations worldwide to ensure superior service delivery for their critical web apps. With its easy installation, intuitive user interface, and robust features, New Relic was designed to provide enterprise-class capabilities without enterprise-class headaches.
Pricing: Free Trial, followed by Freemium and paid plans for $24 a month.

AppDynamics

AppDynamics is the easy-to-use Database & Application Performance Management solution that simplifies the management of complex, business-critical apps for Java, .Net, and PHP Environments for:

  • Real-Time Business Transaction Monitoring
  • Visualizing & Managing your Entire Application
  • Detecting Business Impacts and Performance Spikes
  • Isolating Bottlenecks in your Application
  • Identifying Root Cause with Complete Code diagnostic

CopperEgg
CopperEgg offers server and application performance monitoring that provides simple, smart, and fast insight into hybrid systems, websites, web applications, and services to optimize performance and troubleshoot issues.
Pricing: Free Trial, followed by $70 a month.

Datadog
Datadog provides monitoring services for IT, Dev & Ops teams who write and run applications at scale, and want to turn the massive amounts of data produced by their apps, tools and services into a unified view of IT infrastructure.
Pricing: Free Trial, followed by $15 per server per month.

BigPanda
BigPanda helps to respond faster to Ops incidents. It cleans up noisy alerts, provides insights, visualizes correlations in the production stack and enables Ops-aware collaboration, so managers and their teams can make better decisions faster.
Pricing: Free Trial, followed by Freemium offers, then starting at $199 a month.

LogicMonitor
LogicMonitor offers cloud-based performance monitoring, ensuring customer experience and simplified IT Ops. And you can decide to monitor it all co-lo, on-site, and / or cloud.
Pricing: Starting at $99 a month.\

Stackify
Stackify is the only integrated application performance management solution that allows you to monitor applications, servers, and databases. This allows you to interpret synchronized information about bugs and issues across many tools to find a solution more quickly for satisfied customers.
Pricing: Free Trial, followed by $15 a month.

Site 24 x 7
For Site 24 x 7 web infrastructure monitoring service, it’s all in the name. You need to know what’s going on inside your app, but you gotta sleep too. Know right away when your website or web server is down and why.
Pricing: Freemium up to five basic websites from one location; then starting at $200 a year.

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IT infrastructure and Cloud Monitoring Tools

Why Cloud Monitoring is essential?

  • Security
  • SLA management
  • Capacity planning
  • Resource management
  • Trouble shooting
  • Performance management

Open Source Tools for Cloud Monitoring

  1. Zenoss
  2. Hyperic
  3. Gangila
  4. Nagios
  5. OpenNMS
  6. Zabbix
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How to Start and Stop Nagios Core | Nagios Tutorial

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Starting Nagios Core
Init Script: The easiest way to start the Nagios Core daemon is by using the init script like so:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/nagios start
Manually: You can start the Nagios daemon manually with the -d command line option like so:
/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
Restarting Nagios Core
Restarting/reloading is nececessary when you modify your configuration files and want those changes to take effect.
Init Script: The easiest way to restart the Nagios Core daemon is by using the init script like so:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/nagios reload
Web Interface: You can restart the Nagios Core through the web interface by clicking the “Process Info” navigation link and selecting “Restart the Nagios process”:
Manually: You can restart the Nagios Core process by sending it a SIGHUP signal like so:
kill -HUP <nagios_pid>
Stopping Nagios Core
Init Script: The easiest way to stop the Nagios Core daemon is by using the init script like so:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/nagios stop
Web Interface: You can stop the Nagios Core through the web interface by clicking the “Process Info” navigation link and selecting “Shutdown the Nagios process”:
Manually: You can stop the Nagios Core process by sending it a SIGTERM signal like so:
kill <nagios_pid>
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Step by step procedures to Install Nagios agent in Linux

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Step by step procedures to Install Nagios agent in Linux

> cd /tmp

> mkdir software

> cd software

> yum install wget

> wget https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/agents/linux-nrpe-agent.tar.gz

> tar -zxvf linux-nrpe-agent.tar.gz

> cd linux-nrpe-agent

> ./fullinstall

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Step by step procedures to Install Nagios XI Server in Centos 7

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Step by step procedures to Install Nagios XI Server in Centos 7
#Update your centos os
> yum install update
> yum install wget
# to install network utility e.g. ping. (Optional)
> yum install net-tools
> cd /tmp
> mkdir software
> cd /tmp/software
# Download the Nagios latest package
> wget https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/5/xi-5.4.3.tar.gz
> tar -zxvf xi-5.4.3.tar.gz
> cd /tmp/software/
> cd nagiosxi/
# Fire the script for intallation and wait for completion message.
> ./fullinstall
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Top 10 Infrastructure Monitoring Tools | List of Best Infrastructure Monitoring Tools

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There are various types of tools used by DevOps professionals in their work environment from Continuous integration tools to Virtualization to configuration Management to monitoring and the list goes on and on. So today, we are going to talk about Infrastructure Monitoring tools. Which plays a vital role in the DevOps culture.
 
First of all lets see what is Infrastructure Monitoring ?
 
Infrastructure monitoring is a process in which Organisations IT framework is monitor by companies with the help of tools and softwares. This is essential so that you can make sure that your product availability is good and providing efficient services to customers or users. In other words, Infrastructure Monitoring tools help organisations to find and short-out infrastructure issues before it affect their businesses. It provides the insight status of physical, virtual, and cloud systems which helps in management of these things which ultimately helps in business processes.
 
Now, Let’s check out the major benefits of Infrastructure Monitoring Tools ?
 
1. Infrastructure monitoring tools help to detect the technical problems or outages before it occurs which helps engineers to act in advance accordingly so that it can not affect other things.
 
2. It also helps in quick troubleshooting. When problems happen the first thing engineers do is to troubleshoot them but they cannot do it without proper reports of the infrastructures and monitoring provides them end-to-end informations which helps them to short out the problem quickly.
 
3. This is beneficial when you need to go back to the history to find and choose amongst the infrastructure options for your organization. You can check all the previous monitoring details which helps to take better and firm decisions while selecting.
 
4. It helps in productivity of the human resources by providing them the automation which ultimately helps them to focus on the other things of the infrastructure management and making other strategies.
 
5. All these things which mentioned above ultimately helps the end users to use services smoothly which is very much necessary for running your business effectively and efficiently.
 
 
Now, as we all know there are various tools you can find for Infrastructure monitoring but to choose amongst them you need to do some research. But, don’t waste your time on research as I have done already the same and make my list of top 5 infrastructure monitoring tools.
 
Here is the list:-
 

1. Anturis

Anturis

 

Anturis is a cloud based monitoring tool which belongs to Anturis Inc. It’s like an all-in-one infrastructure monitoring tools which provides server monitoring, network monitoring, website monitoring and application monitoring.
 
Highlights
  • On-premise and cloud-based systems monitoring
  • Seamless agent-based and agent-less monitoring
  • Single dashboard monitoring for multiple data centers in different locations
  • Add many infrastructures and components easily as per needs and can streamline for different users
  • Smart alerts and notification that helps to eliminate “false” alerts and alert “spam”
 

2. AppDynamics

AppDynamics

 
AppDynamics is basically an Application infrastructure monitoring tool which belongs to AppDynamics Inc. but now it’s acquired by Cisco
 
Highlight
  • Provides Visibility into Server Performance
  • Visibility into Database Performance
  • Low overhead monitoring for both
  • Available for both on-premise and SaaS deployments
  • License flexibility to migrate across deployment models

3. BigPanda

BigPanda

BigPanda is also an Infrastructure monitoring tool from bigpanda.io which is founded in 2012 by Assaf Resnick & Elik Eizenberg. It uses algorithms to consolidate data across multiple monitoring systems.
 
Highlights
 
  • Ops-Aware Inbox: All your alerts organized, & updated in one place
  • Reduce Noisy Alerts: Snooze non-actionable alerts
  • Auto-correlate related alerts into high level incidents
  • Collaboration: Share, assign and track alerts
  • Advanced reporting and analytics
  • Trends, real-time activity log, and historical data in just a few clicks
  • Customized views for any app, team or business service
 
4. Boundary

Boundary

Boundary was founded by Cliff Moon & Benjamin Blacka. It is a consolidated operations management platform providing SaaS-based solutions for clients running apps and cloud infrastructures.
 
Highlights
  • Real-time trends of critical metrics
  • Pre-built library of event connectors, APIs for others
  • Early Warnings
  • Dashboard View
  • Analytics for trend analysis and anomaly detection
  • Easy to visualize response times between application tiers
 
5. CopperEgg or Uptime Infrastructure Monitor

CopperEgg

Copper egg was founded Scott Johnson, Eric Anderson & Bob Quillin in 2010 which is later in 2013 acquired by IDERA. It is now renamed to Uptime Infrastructure Monitor. You can monitor physical servers, virtual machines, network devices, applications, and services across multiple platforms running on-premise, remotely, or in the Cloud with the help of Uptime Infrastructure Monitor.
 
Highlights
  • Unified IT Dashboard
  • Customizable, drag-and-drop dashboards
  • Reports on app & server uptime
  • Proactive alerts & root-cause analysis
  • Team or role-specific dashboards
  • Cloud, on-premise or remote monitoring
  • Cloud monitoring incl. Amazon’s EC2 & Rackspace
  • Agentless and agent-based server monitoring
 
 
6. Datadog

Datadog

Datadog was founded in the 2010 by Olivier Pomel & Alexis Lê-Quôc. It provides monitoring for cloud-scale applications. It brings the data together from applications, cloud providers and specialized management tools in one location.
 
Highlights
  • Free Trial for an unlimited number of hosts
  • Out-of-the-box and customizable monitoring dashboards
  • Alert notifications via e-mail and PagerDuty
  • Full API access in more than 15 languages
  • Tools for team collaboration
  • Easy-to-use search for hosts, metrics, and tags
 
 
7. Nagios

Nagios

Nagios is a veteran Infrastructure monitoring tool which was released in 1999 which provides monitoring and alerting solutions for servers, switches, applications and services.
 
Highlights
  • Open source tool
  • Comprehensive monitoring
  • Powerful script APIs
  • Performance & capacity planning graphs
  • Advanced graphs & visualizations
  • Advanced user management
  • Extendable architecture
  • Reporting
 
8. New Relic

New Relic

New relic provides Complete dynamic infrastructure and server monitoring which is founded by Lew Cirne in 2008.
 
Highlights
  • Real-time health metrics for all your systems
  • Live-state Event Feed and a complete change history across all your hosts
  • Slice-and-dice by AWS tags, custom attributes, and metadata
  • Tag-driven alerting and dashboarding for all your dynamic resources
  • Infrastructure-wide search to find vulnerable packages or other resources
  • Docker support, including the ability to track container performance by image, version, and other labels
 
9. Icinga

Icinga

Icinga is an open source monitoring tool which was released in 2009 was originally created as a fork of the Nagios system monitoring application.
 
Highlights
  • Wealth of community-developed plugins
  • Stable codebase.
  • Monitoring of Network,Host and Server Components
  • Notification of contact persons when service or host problems occur and get resolved
  • Alerts transfer to other users or channels
  • Template based reports
  • Report repository with varying access levels and automated report generation and distribution
  • Clear-cut, object-based configuration
  • Clever commands & runtime macros
  • Apply & assign attributes
 
10. AppNeta

AppNeta

AppNeta also provides monitoring services and this was founded in 2000 by Irfhan Rajani and Matt Stevens. It’s provide SaaS-based application and network monitoring for any cloud, for every user and for all locations.
 
Highlights
  • Detailed performance trends in real-time
  • Real-User Monitoring
  • synthetic trends
  • Troubleshoot issues across the entire app network path
  • Proactive Alerts
  • Network Performance Monitoring
  • Provides visibility into AWS components, as well as the network they communicate over
 
So, That’s it. This is my list of top infrastructure monitoring tools and it will definitely help you while choosing them. But, if you think this list should contain any other tools instead of this than please share your list or views in comment section below.

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Top 5 IT Management Tools | IT Management Software

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IT Management Software | Top 5 IT Management Tools

  • Servicenow
  • BMC Remedy
  • Jira
  • Salesforce
  • Sharepoint
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How to Install and Configure Nagios Server and Clients | Nagios Tutorial

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Install and Configure Nagios Server and Clients
Download the Nagios Server Source copy from https://www.nagios.com/products/nagios-xi/
You can also use the direct download links as below;
> wget https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/5/xi-5.2.0.tar.gz
Extract the xi-5.2.0.tar.gz using
> tar -zxvf xi-5.2.0.tar.gz
Run the following commands to install it.
> ./fullinstall
At the end of installation, you will get the url address  using you can access the Nagios server.
e.g http://10.160.34.98/nagiosxi/
Open the url http://10.160.34.98/nagiosxi/
and enter and save following info.
Administrator Name:
Administrator Email Address:
Administrator Username:
Administrator Password:
and presss “Install”
Once you get “Installation Complete” message that means you have Nagios Server install completed.
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