Monitoring your critical infrastructure components is an important component of
managing an enterprise infrastructure. However, it is possible to over-monitor
your servers. Excessive monitoring is usually the result of too many monitoring
processes running on your systems, consuming valuable resources that your
applications need. Many times, the various agents that are installed on your
servers are collecting the same data (in particular performance counters and
events) and possibly each attempting to remedy the same condition or issue.
Among the various agents that may already exist on your Linux or UNIX ...
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