# Looking for a good server monitoring tool(and free) **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [August 19, 2011, 12:07pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/looking-for-a-good-server-monitoring-tool-and-free/3196 "2011-08-19T12:07:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![diat150](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a587f6/32.png) [@diat150](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/diat150)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 12:07pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/looking-for-a-good-server-monitoring-tool-and-free/3196/1 "2011-08-19T12:07:05Z")
anyone have a freeware server monitoring software that they are using to monitor a server running ignition? Id like to install it on a separate server, and have it monitor the ignition server and verify that it is still running and monitor some other services and send me an email alert if the ignition server goes down. ---
**Author:** ![Dravik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Dravik](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Dravik)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 1:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/looking-for-a-good-server-monitoring-tool-and-free/3196/2 "2011-08-19T13:51:47Z")
nagios! [http://www.nagios.org/](http://www.nagios.org/) Very Powerful ---
**Author:** ![Dravik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Dravik](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Dravik)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 1:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/looking-for-a-good-server-monitoring-tool-and-free/3196/3 "2011-08-19T13:54:39Z")
Nagwin works well if you want to install it on a windows box btw. ---
**Author:** ![bbaddict00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@bbaddict00](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bbaddict00)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 7:32pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/looking-for-a-good-server-monitoring-tool-and-free/3196/4 "2011-08-19T19:32:29Z")
Try Uptime Software. It has the best server monitoring app I’ve used so far; and yes it will monitor ignition! You could use Nagios if you are monitoring very few systems, I’m sure you won’t need all of its features anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Dravik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Dravik](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Dravik)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 3:53am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/looking-for-a-good-server-monitoring-tool-and-free/3196/5 "2011-08-22T03:53:43Z")
I’ll have to check that out, always interested in seeing how other software packages work. My definition of very few is 560+ atm however 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jesc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/67e7ee/32.png) [@jesc](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jesc)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 1:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/looking-for-a-good-server-monitoring-tool-and-free/3196/6 "2011-08-23T13:04:52Z")
[paessler.com/prtg/download](http://www.paessler.com/prtg/download) PRTG network monitor 8, they have a free version with 10-20 free sensors. It is a great tool and their commercial version is very cheap. ---
**Author:** ![jennifer.kuvlesky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e57/32.png) [@jennifer.kuvlesky](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jennifer.kuvlesky)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 6:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/looking-for-a-good-server-monitoring-tool-and-free/3196/7 "2013-01-29T18:41:03Z")
SolarWinds has a free tool called WMI Monitor which can monitor any WMI application. SolarWinds also has an affordable server monitoring [http://www.solarwinds.com/server-application-monitor.aspx](http://www.solarwinds.com/server-application-monitor.aspx) tool which can monitor hardware health, operating systems, and any application with ~150 applications supported natively.