Monitoring is essential to business to ensure a necessary system is up and running. Monitoring different aspects of your IT infrastructure setup can cause a lot of tantrums if not done properly with the right tools.
It doesnt matter if you are a small or medium or large enterprise with type of monitoring configuration in your current IT landscape, still you cant ignore the monitoring platform which best suites to your need. Even if you own a simple personal website you need uptime and performance, right ?.
There are many software available which can help you to monitor your infrastructure and notify for any failure. Considering the large number of options with type of license model and complexity associated with it to integrate with variety of platforms hosted in your IT environment. Lastly all hangs down to cost/price associated to it and its not easy to ignore that.
The good thing ?
We ItaaS Group gained expertise in IT platform and Infrastructure monitoring over past 22 years using COTS and opensource tools and found that opensource tools can deliver the need of monitoring to any types of organization provide its done correct. There are powerful opensource monitoring solutions avialable for you to use.
Based on our experience, lets take a look at the best open source monitoring solutions for IT infrastructure platform and application peformance monitoring tool in market, which we are delivering to our customers
Nagios runs on a Core 4 monitoring engine, which provides a high level of performance by consuming fewer server resources.
You can integrate with almost any type of third-party software by using a plugin and most likely, someone has already written the plugin.
If you are into Middleware, you can leverage Nagios to monitor WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss, Tomcat, Apache, URL, Nginx, etc.
Features
- Centralized view of entire monitored IT infrastructure
- Its event handlers grant automatic restart of failed applications
- Multi-user access
- Selective access allows clients to view only the infrastructure components about them
- An active community of over 1 million users
- Extendable architecture
Contact us for for design, deployment and support for Nagios installation?
The ELK stack is an acronym used to describe a stack that comprises of three popular open-source projects: Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. Often referred to as Elasticsearch, the ELK stack gives you the ability to aggregate logs from all your systems and applications, analyze these logs, and create visualizations for application and infrastructure monitoring, faster troubleshooting, security analytics, and more.
E = Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch is an open-source, RESTful, distributed search and analytics engine built on Apache Lucene. Support for various languages, high performance, and schema-free JSON documents makes Elasticsearch an ideal choice for various log analytics and search use cases.
L = Logstash
Logstash is an open-source data ingestion tool that allows you to collect data from a variety of sources, transform it, and send it to your desired destination. With pre-built filters and support for over 200 plugins, Logstash allows users to easily ingest data regardless of the data source or type.
K = Kibana
Kibana is an open-source data visualization and exploration tool for reviewing logs and events. Kibana offers easy-to-use, interactive charts, pre-built aggregations and filters, and geospatial support and making it the preferred choice for visualizing data stored in Elasticsearch.
Use cases:
Application Monitoring
Store, analyze, and correlate application and infrastructure log data to find and fix issues faster and improve application performance. You can receive automated alerts if your application is underperforming, enabling you to proactively address any issues. An online travel company, for example, can use Elasticsearch Service to analyze logs from its applications to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks or availability issues, ensuring streamlined booking experience.
Infrastructure Monitoring
Collect logs and metrics from your servers, routers, switches, and virtualized machines to get a comprehensive visibility into your infrastructure, reducing mean time to detect (MTTD) and resolve (MTTR) issues and lowering system downtime. A gaming company, for example, can use Elasticsearch Service to monitor and analyze server logs to identify any server performance issues that could lead to application downtime.
What are you waiting for ?. Contact us today and start monitoring your IT based on opensource platform.
