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How much of a performance hit shall we expect from running such monitoring tool?

I thought what it had to do was just read data that’s provided by the OS, why is it taking almost 700MB out of my limited resources?

I wanted a monitoring software that basically sits at the background to monitor CPU/disk/mem usage, nothing overly complex.

If i open the dashboard, the CPU constantly spikes to 80% and the memory fills up to 2-3 GB just, combined with the browser (which is really a poor agent for this purpose, why not develop a desktop app?) i can’t even do anything, my mouse will lag and my typing will lag.

What’s funny is the alert keeps telling me i had spikes, and lots of que running and constantly high usage, which is all caused by spiceworks monitor !

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What are the resources on the computer/VM network monitor is running on and how many devices do you have added?

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It sounds like youare running this on your own device, its supposed to run on a dedicated machine. You also mentioned an agent, the agent is designed with laptops that are off the network.

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700mb is nothing really. Which application is this you ate talking about, network monitor or inventory/helpdesk

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Hmm. Seems like i don’t understand this part. I want to monitor my own device, it’s kindof obvious i should be installing the agent on the particular device, is it not? If it doesn’t, how does it read my data?

This is network monitor. I installed it on a fairly weak PC, i know this will take a little bit of toll on it, but this much is really strange. It’s like if i launched task manager, and other related monitor like open hardware monitor, etc, it doesn’t even take 10% of any resources.

This was only a test, my other plan is to install this on a remote VPS to monitor it, and i don’t think the VPS can handle it. Maybe you may have other programs that you can suggest to me that can accomplish this, as i don’t need alot of “sensors”, just showing me the uptime, CPU, mem, disk IO usage that’s all. Of course, i need a program to log the usage and show it to me in a readable chart and drill down to process consumption, network usage, etc, details.

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Network monitor does not use agents, so I think you are confusing things.

Network monitor also cannot monitor the device it runs on, this is by design.

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Installing it on a VPN is also not going to be of any use as the products are designed to be on the LAN they monitor, unless you use a VPN to the VPN this wont work

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The Network Monitor VM does use quite a bit of CPU averaging about 65 % of usage. As Rod has noted the Network Monitor does not have agents and should not be used over the WAN.

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This can’t get any more confusing. So in order to monitor the CPU usage of PC A, where do i install the background process and what’s the name of it?

And when i want to check the logs in the dashboard for PC A, where do i check it from? PC B? And Why?

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The application is designed to be installed on a server, then you add the clients or servers, switches or printers you want to monitor, it should be used for critical systems and not really everything you have, while I never understand why people monitor PCs, you can, if this is windows you need to use WMI (AD credentials) to monitor it.

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