General Questions

What is agent vs agentless system monitoring

Agent monitoring systems have a monitoring application running on a production system. This mode provides more functionality than the agentless mode since there is actually something on the system that can run commands and check system files. However this is something else that needs to be upgraded and does use system resources. Reading log files or gathering operating system metrics require agent solutions. If you don't wish to use our agent you can integrate agent logic into your application.

The Agentless monitoring solution has no need for anything running on your system. It looks at your system as an outside observer periodically running a test or hitting a webpage to determine the availablilty of the server.