PRTG Network Monitor: All-in-One Monitoring for Networks That Can’t Afford Surprises What Is It? PRTG is a commercial-grade network monitoring system developed by Paessler. It’s designed to give a full picture of what’s happening across switches, routers, servers, applications, cloud platforms — all from a single interface.

At its core, PRTG is built around the idea of “sensors”. Each sensor monitors a specific metric: ping, traffic on an interface, CPU usage, free disk space, HTTP response, et

EventLog Inspector: Get Windows Event Logs Where You Actually Need Them What It Is EventLog Inspector is a lightweight tool designed to forward Windows event logs to syslog servers or SIEM systems — without the overhead of a full-blown agent. It’s aimed at IT professionals who need centralized log visibility but want to avoid the complexity of setting up an entire log management stack on each workstation or server.

It turns the local Windows event viewer into a real-time source of information f

Shinken: Monitoring That Feels Familiar — But Scales Smarter What Is It, Really? Shinken is a monitoring framework that was built to pick up where Nagios leaves off. It keeps the same configuration logic — so anyone used to `.cfg` files won’t be lost — but the internals are reworked. It’s Python-based, modular, and easier to spread across multiple systems.

Instead of trying to be a one-size-fits-all tool, Shinken separates its roles: scheduling, executing, brokering, and notifying all run as in

VictoriaMetrics: When You Need to Push Metrics Fast Without Breaking Things Let’s be honest — most time series databases start falling apart once you throw real data at them. Either ingestion slows to a crawl, storage eats the disk, or queries turn into a waiting game. That’s where VictoriaMetrics steps in. It’s a tool that doesn’t try to be flashy — just efficient, predictable, and brutally fast when it counts.

It’s written in Go. One binary. No dependencies. Drop it in, and it starts listenin