Web Server Monitoring Tools: Four Free Platforms to Track Your Hardware

If you need to monitor your servers in real time, we're going to introduce four free hardware monitoring platforms. These environments give you a URL from which you can follow the status of your servers, audit the software inventory, and perform remote administration, among other options. The platforms require advanced knowledge, as you'll have to run a few commands on the server (VPS, DigitalOcean, etc.) so the programs send reports automatically.

Pulseway

Pulseway is a remote administration tool that can be used to monitor your server's hardware. After registering, you'll get an agent (DEB for Linux) that you need to install on the server. When you start it with the command "systemct", the program will start sending you hardware status reports in the control panel of Pulseway's web page. The tool also offers remote administration, remote command execution, shutdown and reboot, among other options. The free version of Pulseway lets you add two servers or desktop computers for remote administration.

• Commands

Installation:

sudo dpkg -i PathToDEBFlile

Registration:

pulseway-registration

Linux Dash

Linux Dash is a panel you install on your server to monitor hardware statistics. With the platform you can see the following hardware stats: CPU usage, RAM usage, upload/download speed, ARP cache table, RAM processes, network connections, basic server information, and a few more details.

• Commands

Install with Python:

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/afaqurk/linux-dash.git
cd linux-dash/app/server
sudo python index.py

Then, you'll need to generate a URL on port 80 to view the generated reports.

System-Dashboard

System-Dashboard is a server dashboard to show the live status of your server's hardware. This Python program (available on Linux servers) shows you the following reports: CPU usage, bytes received, bytes sent, disk read speed, disk write, current time, and so on.

• Commands

Installation:

pip install psutil flask flask_cors

Start the program:

git clone https://github.com/minimaxir/system-dashboard
cd system-dashboard
python flask_system.py

Now you just have to open the file "system_dashboard.html" and select "Load Freeboard" and "system_dashboard_flask.json" to view the dashboard.

eZ Server Monitor-Web

eZ Server Monitor-Web is a server hardware monitor (Apache or Nginx). This PHP program doesn't require any extra dependencies. You only need to upload the environment's folder to the hosting and customize the configuration file. From its generated report you can see: RAM usage, disk usage, network usage, free space, pings, service status, swap, system details, and load average.

With the platforms mentioned above, you can get an automatic report of your server's status remotely.