Best Server Management Software for Linux

Checkmk is a comprehensive IT monitoring system that enables system administrators, IT managers, and DevOps teams to identify issues across their entire IT infrastructure (servers, applications, networks, storage, databases, containers) and act quickly to resolve them More than 2,000 commercial customers and many more open source users worldwide use Checkmk daily. Key product features: • Service state monitoring with almost 2,000 checks 'out of the box' • Log and event-based monitoring • Metrics, dynamic graphing, and long-term storage • Comprehensive reporting incl. availability and SLAs • Flexible notifications and automated alert handling • Monitoring of business processes and complex systems • Hardware and software inventory • Graphical, rule-based configuration, and automated service discovery Top use cases: • Server Monitoring • Network Monitoring • Application Monitoring • Database Monitoring • Storage Monitoring • Cloud Monitoring • Container Monitoring

VirtualMetric is a powerful telemetry pipeline solution designed to enhance data collection, processing, and security monitoring across enterprise environments. Its core offering, DataStream, automatically collects and transforms security logs from a wide range of systems such as Windows, Linux, MacOS, and Unix, enriching data for further analysis. By reducing data volume and filtering out non-meaningful logs, VirtualMetric helps businesses lower SIEM ingestion costs, increase operational efficiency, and improve threat detection accuracy. The platform’s scalable architecture, with features like zero data loss and long-term compliance storage, ensures that businesses can maintain high security standards while optimizing performance.