With the advancement of internet technology, thousands of applications have now become web-based. Due to this web servers are now playing an important role to handle user requests. If the web server in any way breaks down or is adversely affected, the user experience will also be impacted. If you are using a web application for your business, it is only fitting to have a web server monitoring working real time to monitor your web server and web applications..

A good web server monitoring should provide real-time monitoring, reporting as well as diagnosis for web servers. Combining both passive and active monitoring, a good tool for web server monitoring can track the performance and availability of web applications and can determine where performance is not at its optimum. The problem can be on the middleware, database, web server, storage, virtualization platform, etc.

How can web server monitoring help ensure that your web applications are all working? IT infrastructures have varying sizes depending on a business needs and with the different sizes of IT infrastructures, there will be multiple and multi-tiered web applications. When we say multi-tiered web applications they work with other web applications making it more complicated to determine where the problem is coming from when a break-down or issues occur. On top of that if there are many web applications hosted on just one web server, this can increase the occurrence of more issues. Too much load on one application can negatively affect another web application.

Web server monitoring is used by IT managers to track, monitor and resolve each component of the IT infrastructure they are responsible for. Once the problem has been determined then resolving or fixing the issue is the next thing to do.

What type of web servers are usually monitored? There are different types of web servers such as Apache web server or IIS web servers. The Apache web server are often used in the core of  IT infrastructures of industries such as Banking, Trading, Logistics and Healthcare. The reason why web applications or big websites are designed based on a multi-tier model is to make sure a website functions optimally and the web applications are scalable or can be used in a different ways. Any issue or concerns  in the web server tier negatively affects the experience of the end users.

The other web server which is the IIS web server works on the front-end and as the middleware application server which hosts the business logic functioning and also as the database server for Oracle, SQL, etc. for the backend. The same with any type of web server, a web server monitoring tool or provider is required. We can never tell when a problem might occur and with those web applications closely intertwined and interdependent with one another, pointing out or finding out  where the issue is can be harder without a web server monitoring.