# Monitoring System Health **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [September 14, 2010, 1:27am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/monitoring-system-health/2192 "2010-09-14T01:27:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bhastie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d6d6ee/32.png) [@bhastie](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bhastie)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 1:27am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/monitoring-system-health/2192/1 "2010-09-14T01:27:27Z")
I need to monitor the overall system health of my client’s system. What metrics would you suggest I monitor in order to detect problems with gateway, the OPC connections, DB connections etc. Any suggestions? ---
**Author:** ![Dravik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Dravik](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Dravik)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 2:30pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/monitoring-system-health/2192/2 "2010-09-14T14:30:40Z")
You’ll want to monitor the cpu/memory load of the system and the database server at least. I also monitor that the Ignition service is running and what % of system resources it is consuming at any given time. We use Nagios for this task, but What’s Up would work just as well, or any of a number of other programs. Most of our PLCs have watchdog bits that I monitor and alert on from inside Ignition as well. ---
**Author:** ![bhastie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d6d6ee/32.png) [@bhastie](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bhastie)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 4:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/monitoring-system-health/2192/3 "2010-09-14T16:06:01Z")
Thanks for the pointers ![8)](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/1X/587d7fe0d6822f36e81815ab06aa7164e9d2e057.gif "Cool")