collectd

A daemon that collects system performance statistics periodically, and provides tons of plugins to store and analyze these values

     

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Instrumental

Instrumental is a real-time, high-scale application and server monitoring tool with intelligent alerts, a powerful query language, and free development accounts.

     

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Monit

An open source utility for managing and monitoring processes, programs, files, directories and filesystems

     

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Nagios Core

Nagios Core network monitoring software is a powerful, enterprise-class host, server, application, monitoring and alerting tool

     

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Netdata

netdata is a system for distributed real-time performance and health monitoring. It provides unparalleled insights, in real-time, of everything happening on the system it runs (including applications such as web and database servers), using modern interactive web dashboards.

     

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PowerShell Desired State Configuration

DSC is a new management platform in Windows PowerShell that enables deploying and managing configuration data for software services and managing the environment in which these services run.

     

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Zabbix

An open source, enterprise-class monitoring framework

     

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