Bandwidth Montoring
The primary goal of Spin Servers is to provide enterprise-class dedicated web hosting at affordable prices. To do that efficiently, we must listen to our community and take the feedback we receive with the utmost importance.
Currently, the most requested feature we have received from our community is a simple way to monitor server traffic. Until the release of our bandwidth monitor, you would need to install a bandwidth monitoring script on each of your servers to properly monitor your traffic.
Our traffic monitor will provide you with basic traffic statistics in order to give you a general sense of how busy your server is. This is fine for most people but some clients will require a more robust way of monitoring their web traffic. Installing an advanced bandwidth monitor is always a good idea and we recommend doing so.
Using a 3rd party software is the best way to montioring your traffic and network with the most accuracy.
Zabbix
Zabbix is an open-source software tool to monitor IT infrastructure such as networks, servers, virtual machines, and cloud services. Zabbix collects and displays basic metrics. Zabbix is designed primarily as an IT infrastructure monitoring tool. New features are generally released every six months to major versions and every 1.5 years to LTS versions.
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You can download Zabbix directly from their website here: https://www.zabbix.com/download
Cacti
Cacti is an open-source, web-based network monitoring, performance, fault and configuration management framework designed as a front-end application for the open-source, industry-standard data logging tool RRDtool. Cacti allows a user to poll services at predetermined intervals and graph the resulting data. Through the use of Cacti plugins, it has been extended to encompass all of the FCAPS operational management categories. It is generally used to graph time-series data of metrics such as CPU load and network bandwidth utilization. A common usage is to monitor network traffic by polling a network switch or router interface via Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).
You can find the download on GitHub here: https://github.com/Cacti/cacti
NetFlow Analyzer
NetFlow Analyzer, a complete traffic analytics tool, that leverages flow technologies to provide real time visibility into the network bandwidth performance. NetFlow Analyzer, primarily a bandwidth monitoring tool, has been optimizing thousands of networks across the World by giving holistic view about their network bandwidth and traffic patterns.
NetFlow Analyzer is a unified network traffic monitor that collects, analyzes and reports about what your network bandwidth is being used for and by whom. NetFlow Analyzer is the trusted partner optimizing the bandwidth usage of over a million interfaces worldwide apart from performing network forensics, network traffic analysis and network flow monitoring.
You can download NetFlow here: https://www.manageengine.com/products/netflow/download.html
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