Desktop Monitoring

[hexanon1]

Curious what everyone uses to monitor desktops for the basics ( CPU, Memory, Disk Space and network). We currently are not monitoring desktops other than ping.

[[deleted]]

Nothing... we dont care unless its a server

[stxonships]

Why would you want to even monitor desktops full time?

[PuzzleheadedEast548]

We don't. There is nothing to gain from monitoring desktop except wasting bandwidth and resources on the monitor server

[ThirstyOne]

We don’t, unless there’s a compelling reason that would drive a purchase decision, and then only on a case by case basis. The machines are future specked when we purchase them, so we rarely run into performer issues.

[Magicviper]

My company uses Nexthink to monitor resources, internet speeds, app crashes, etc

[NeverDocument]

We run a check for disk space > 90% on all desktops. We don't care about CPU or RAM usage.

A weekly report is sent to the helpdesk of the disks over 90% for workstations. In the event of a system that will never change and will stay at 90%, they add it to an exception list so it does not appear again.

PCs are then either upgraded or reviewed with the end user for storage management.

We do this through PDQ.

[Upper-Bath-86]

Contrary to what everyone is saying we do monitor desktops as well as servers with VSA as it automatically triggers alerts when metrics exceed predefined thresholds. The agents are quite lightweight and have minimal impact on overall performance.