Monitoring setup for a web application and database server

In the previous section, we have discussed the types of monitors, but still we don't know which monitors are configured on these systems. Let's prepare a table for the different infrastructure system monitors and why they are configured. The following table shows the basic monitors, which are normally configured for web application and database servers:

Monitored component

Benefit

Web server

Application server

Database server

CPU

Proactive measure to identify system issues

Yes

Yes

Yes

Physical Memory (RAM)

Proactive measure to identify system issues

Yes

Yes

Yes

JVM

Proactive measure to identify system issues

No

Yes

Yes

HTTP connection

Helps us identify the performance ...

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