{"id":4797,"date":"2016-07-26T10:37:19","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T15:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.poweradmin.com\/blog\/?p=4797"},"modified":"2016-07-25T16:38:54","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T21:38:54","slug":"the-costs-of-not-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poweradmin.com\/blog\/the-costs-of-not-monitoring\/","title":{"rendered":"The Costs of Not Monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poweradmin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/costs-benefits-choices-on-signpost-showing-analysis-and-value-of-an-investm_gkc_xxvd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4806 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.poweradmin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/costs-benefits-choices-on-signpost-showing-analysis-and-value-of-an-investm_gkc_xxvd-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Costs Benefits Choices On Signpost Shows Analysis And Value Of An Investment\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.poweradmin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/costs-benefits-choices-on-signpost-showing-analysis-and-value-of-an-investm_gkc_xxvd-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.poweradmin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/costs-benefits-choices-on-signpost-showing-analysis-and-value-of-an-investm_gkc_xxvd-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.poweradmin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/costs-benefits-choices-on-signpost-showing-analysis-and-value-of-an-investm_gkc_xxvd.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Why monitor your servers? \u00a0As with all resources, computer resources are limited.\u00a0 That means limited work can done by the CPU, limited information can be held in system memory for use, and limited data can be stored on disk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">When a system has all of the resources it needs, it generally runs fine.\u00a0 But what are the costs when a resource is depleted?<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Strained CPU and Memory Resources<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Running out of CPU processing power (using it at 100% capacity), or running low on memory, means work that needs getting done is delayed.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Costs:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Sluggish or non-responsive websites, which leads directly to\u00a0customers leaving.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Failed or timed out database transactions, which means failed orders.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Company knowledge workers end up waiting for reports or other data, meaning idle human resources.<br>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Running out of Disk Space<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poweradmin.com\/products\/server-monitoring\/?f=d&amp;ref=blog\">Running out of disk space<\/a> might be the worst because restarting the computer might not help anything.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Costs:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Databases cannot record orders, inventory changes, payments, etc. \u00a0Orders are lost, business data is not reliable, customer information is not recorded.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Audit logs cannot be written which translates into failed internal security controls, lost compliance, and somebody being in hot water during the next audit.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Emails cannot be received and stored in the mail system, leading to failed communications, lost orders, bad customer support, and a grumpy CEO (we\u2019ve heard stories!)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poweradmin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/prevent-losses-with-server-monitoring.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4807 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.poweradmin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/prevent-losses-with-server-monitoring.jpg\" alt=\"prevent losses with server monitoring\" width=\"360\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.poweradmin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/prevent-losses-with-server-monitoring.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.poweradmin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/prevent-losses-with-server-monitoring-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\"><\/a>Going Deep<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">The above examples are the simple ones.\u00a0 There is so much more that a good monitoring solution can do to help.\u00a0 For example, knowing you have enough CPU, RAM and Disk is a great start. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Would you like to know if your website is responding sluggishly?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">What if your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poweradmin.com\/help\/latestsmhelp.aspx?page=monitor_web_page.aspx&amp;ref=blog\">website SSL certificates are about to expire<\/a>?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Should you know if your\u00a0mail server has crashed?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">How about the\u00a0database transaction log is almost full?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">A good monitoring solution will watch all of that and much more, and summarize it all into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poweradmin.com\/products\/server-monitoring\/?ref=blog\">simple to view dashboard<\/a> showing you at a glance if everything is OK, or whether some component in your business needs attention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Each of the above problems are usually predictable, meaning statistics about usage can be measured, stored, and charted to help you see if your system is getting near its resource limits.\u00a0 This could be done manually by checking on those statistics throughout the day, and for just one or two servers that might suffice (though it will surely not catch temporary problems, especially those that happen after work hours).\u00a0 A better solution is a software product that can monitor once every few minutes, or even more often than that.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Over-provisioning<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">One overlooked benefit of monitoring is you can right-size your computing investment.\u00a0Monitoring can help you with understanding what resources you need, including at peak times, so you don\u2019t pay for more resources than you need.\u00a0 Having 100 serves all running at 5% usage rates is wasting energy (to run and to cool), indicates too much was spent on hardware, and could just generally be utilized more efficiently.\u00a0 All of that translates directly into saving money, and usually saving much more than a typical monitoring solution would cost.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Savings:<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Only buy\/pay for what you need = more money in the budget!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">See for yourself!<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">If you would like to avoid the problems and have all of the benefits of a powerful yet easy to use monitoring system, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poweradmin.com\/products\/server-monitoring\/?ref=blog\">take a look at PA Server Monitor!<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why monitor your servers? \u00a0As with all resources, computer resources are limited.\u00a0 That means limited work can done by the CPU, limited information can be held in system memory for use, and limited data can be stored on disk. \u00a0 When a system has all of the resources it needs, it generally runs fine.\u00a0 But 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