@Curtis you can take a look at https://uptimerobot.com/pricing they provide up to 50 monitors for free. I have been using their free service for a few years and have no complaints. Hope this helps...

@dafyre Thanks, going to test it that way first I guess. Then figure out a VM to use for production.

@scottalanmiller said in Server Monitoring:

@philmcdonnell said in Server Monitoring:

@dafyre Thank you for your insight! I am leaning towards Zabbix, just didn't want to launch a separate machine just for that. But I am sure I will find other uses for the machine

No need for a separate machine, just a separate VM. And you'd want a separate VM no matter what monitoring tool you go with.

I have a very small lan at a non-profit I am doing IT volunteer work for. They have very little if any budget so looking for the best free stuff if possible. When you say run everything in a VM, what are you using as a host? Is the host Windows or Linux and what would be the controller? I have used VirtualBox on Windows before, never done it on Linux. Not much experience with Linux except for web servers that run CentOS and cPanel or DirectAdmin control panels.

Thanks for all your help everyone!

@dafyre Thank you for your insight! I am leaning towards Zabbix, just didn't want to launch a separate machine just for that. But I am sure I will find other uses for the machine

Not to hijack this thread, but what does everyone use locally for monitoring servers, switches, access points, etc? I see Zabbix mentioned a lot, but was looking for something that runs on Windows. Anyone use anything from SpiceWorks? Any good?

@Curtis you can take a look at https://uptimerobot.com/pricing they provide up to 50 monitors for free. I have been using their free service for a few years and have no complaints. Hope this helps...