System Monitoring Software

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ManageEngine ADAudit Plus

ADAudit Plus offers real-time monitoring, user and entity behaviour analytics, and change audit reports that helps users keep AD and IT infrastructure secure and compliant.Track all changes to Windows AD objects including users, groups, computers, GPOs, and OUs.Achieve hybrid AD…

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Atera

Atera is a platform that enables IT professionals to gain access, visibility, and control over all their networks and devices from anywhere. Users can manage their IT operation from patch management, IT automations, advanced reporting, alerts, helpdesk, ticketing, and it features…

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ScienceLogic SL1

ScienceLogic is a system and application monitoring and performance management platform. ScienceLogic collects and aggregates data across and IT ecosystems and contextualizes it for actionable insights with the SL1 product offering.

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New Relic

New Relic is a SaaS-based web and mobile application performance management provider for the cloud and the datacenter. They provide code-level diagnostics for dedicated infrastructures, the cloud, or hybrid environments and real time monitoring.

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Auvik

Auvik Network Management is a vendor-agnostic cloud-based network monitoring and management solution providing automated network discovery. Auvik requires no service hardware or disruptive maintenance cycles and provides onboarding and training for new and existing users. Auvik delivers…

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SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) delivers application and server monitoring capabilities. SAM allows for self-service for easy setup, 1200+ monitoring templates, and customization options, as well as integrate with other SolarWinds products.

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ScienceLogic SL1

ScienceLogic is a system and application monitoring and performance management platform. ScienceLogic collects and aggregates data across and IT ecosystems and contextualizes it for actionable insights with the SL1 product offering.

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LogicMonitor

LogicMonitor provides an agentless SaaS-based monitoring platform. LogicMonitor provides prebuilt integrations and an open API, and is designed to provide monitoring across networks, servers, applications, websites, and containers, including insights and reporting capabilities.

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New Relic

New Relic is a SaaS-based web and mobile application performance management provider for the cloud and the datacenter. They provide code-level diagnostics for dedicated infrastructures, the cloud, or hybrid environments and real time monitoring.

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Auvik

Auvik Network Management is a vendor-agnostic cloud-based network monitoring and management solution providing automated network discovery. Auvik requires no service hardware or disruptive maintenance cycles and provides onboarding and training for new and existing users. Auvik delivers…

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Atera

Atera is a platform that enables IT professionals to gain access, visibility, and control over all their networks and devices from anywhere. Users can manage their IT operation from patch management, IT automations, advanced reporting, alerts, helpdesk, ticketing, and it features…

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SolarWinds Pingdom

SolarWinds Pingdom is a website uptime monitoring and alert tool, with additional reporting and Real User Monitoring capabilities. Pingdom is part of SolarWinds’s DevOps package, enabling full-stack monitoring as a service.

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ConnectWise Automate

ConnectWise Automate, formerly LabTech, is a remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform. It provides powerful automation to discover and manage devices, monitor for problems, and scripts repetitive action.

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PRTG Network Monitor

PRTG Network Monitor is the flagship offering from German software company Paessler, for monitoring local and wide area networks (LANs & WANs), servers, websites, apps, and more.

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ManageEngine ADAudit Plus

ADAudit Plus offers real-time monitoring, user and entity behaviour analytics, and change audit reports that helps users keep AD and IT infrastructure secure and compliant.Track all changes to Windows AD objects including users, groups, computers, GPOs, and OUs.Achieve hybrid AD…

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Nagios Core

Nagios provides monitoring of all mission-critical infrastructure components. Multiple APIs and community-build add-ons enable integration and monitoring with in-house and third-party applications for optimized scaling.

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Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon CloudWatch is a native AWS monitoring tool for AWS programs. It provides data collection and resource monitoring capabilities.

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Prometheus

Prometheus is a service monitoring and time series database, which is open source.

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N-able N-sight RMM

SolarWinds Remote Monitoring & Management (RMM) is a cloud-based system monitoring offering for Managed Service Providers. It provides a full monitoring and management suite, including automation and threat detection capabilities, and can integrate with other SolarWinds products.

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SolarWinds ipMonitor

SolarWinds ipMonitor is a lightweight performance monitoring tool. It enables monitoring from a single console and out-of-the-box visibility, with some automation available.

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N-able N-central

MSPs and IT professionals use N-able™ N-central® to monitor and manage devices and complex networks remotely. N-central provides visibility and efficiency as the user's needs scale. N-central can help users: 1. Proactively monitor everything on a customer network—not just servers…

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Oracle Enterprise Manager

Oracle’s Enterprise Manager is an on-premises monitoring and management tool. The console is designed primarily to manage other Oracle products, it but can integrate to manage non-Oracle components as well.

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ManageEngine Site24x7

Site24x7 from ManageEngine is a full-stack application, website, server, cloud and network monitoring tool. Site24x7 offers code-level diagnostics and customizable error thresholds, end-to-end monitoring with topology visualization tools, and mobile accessibility.

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Pulseway

Pulseway is an IT monitoring and management solution that enables users to monitor, manage and control all systems and servers from a smartphone, tablet or browser. For system administrators, Pulseway sends a notification, so they can see an issue and sort it in seconds. Pulseway…

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Icinga

Icinga is an open source network monitoring platform. It includes automation, modularized integration packages, and prebuilt alerts and reporting capabilities.

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Broadcom DX Unified Infrastructure Management

Broadcom DX Unified Infrastructure Manager, formerly from CA Technologies, is a unified tool for systems monitoring and analytics. It offers multiple deployment options for IT teams and MSPs .

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Redgate SQL Monitor

Redgate’s SQL Monitor helps teams looking after SQL servers be more proactive. SQL Monitor enables monitoring environments custom to the user’s SQL server to recognize issues before they impact users. It supports monitoring on-premises and cloud-based servers from a single interface.…

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AlertSite

AlertSite, from SmartBear Software, is a website monitoring and application performance management application offering real time alerting with root-cause analytics and robust reporting.

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SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor (WPM)

SolarWinds Web Performance Monitoring (WPM) is a website and SaaS application performance monitoring tool. It utilizes synthetic and real user monitoring for proactive issue detection and performance reporting. WPM is designed to be scalable with business needs.

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Uptrends

Uptrends is the eponymous product from the company in Massachusetts for monitoring a website's uptime, used as well for monitoring web apps' functioning, server monitoring with alerts and reporting, and general analysis of a website's performance, element-by-element.

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What is System Monitoring Software?

Systems Monitoring Software is an umbrella term that includes individual system monitoring tools. These tools are designed to manage a company’s IT system in a centralized fashion and can be operated remotely. System monitoring software is a core offering of many managed server providers (MSP).


These tools perform a variety of more granular functions that fall under network and application monitoring. System monitoring tools also monitor a range of devices including servers, storage devices, desktop computers, printers, and mobile devices. All of these monitoring activities provide notifications for technicians when there is a network failure or system malfunction. They also are able to generate reports which analyze the system’s performance data.


Additionally, system monitoring software is used for:

  • Taking hardware and software inventory

  • Configuration management

  • Patch management

  • Security management (such as virus and spam filters)

  • Backup and restore capabilities

As such, this category of software includes many discrete sub-categories, each of which has its own lists of products. Products in this category may also overlap with other software categories such as IT Infrastructure Monitoring, Configuration Management, and SQL Server Performance Monitoring Tools. Products listed in the system monitoring software category are generally portfolio products that perform a range of functions.

System Monitoring Software Features & Capabilities

Although individual products may have a different range of capabilities, these are some common system monitoring software features:

Monitoring

  • Remote monitoring

  • Network device monitoring

  • Multiple server monitoring

  • Multi-device monitoring

  • Automated alerts and notifications

Management Tasks

  • Patch Management

  • Service configuration management

  • Software and hardware inventory

  • Policy-based automation

Reporting

  • Performance data reports

  • Customizable reporting

  • Data visualization

  • Risk analysis

Security

  • Data backup and recovery

  • Antivirus and malware management

  • Administrative access control

System Monitoring Software Comparison

When considering different system monitoring tools, consider the following aspects of each product offering.
  1. Specific Features: System monitoring tools include features that cover a wide variety of tasks, including network monitoring and application monitoring. If your organization has specific needs in one of those two areas, closely consider how robust each system monitoring tool is in those areas. For some businesses, it may be ideal to use a fully-featured application monitoring tool or application monitoring tool.

  2. Deployment: System monitoring tools and RMM software can be deployed on-premise, on the cloud, or in a hybrid fashion. RMM software is usually cloud-based, while system monitoring tools can be deployed on-premise. When comparing system monitoring tools, consider what deployment is ideal for your business and what tools can provide that deployment.

  3. Security: System monitoring tools often come with security features like data backup and antivirus management. Not all system monitoring tools offer the same degree of protection. If your IT system contains sensitive data, consider system monitoring options with stronger security features.

Pricing Information

System monitoring, or RMM, software is typically priced on a monthly or annual subscription model, per device being monitored. Plans can start as low as $10 per device per month, and increase to $50 per device per month for enterprise level solutions.


Although most vendors do not disclose prices on their website, quotes are available upon request. Many vendors also offer free trial versions of their products.

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