Utilize the capabilities of server reports to streamline performance, capacity planning, and fault resolution. From inventory to load data, learn how reports can help you find ways to manage your servers better.
IT infrastructures are not simple anymore. The average enterprise IT infrastructure contains thousands of servers. Each of them is a potential point of failure in a complex network ecosystem. In such a scenario, server monitoring reports are not merely nice to have; they are essential.
These reports integrate real-time metrics, detailed system logs, and predictive anomaly detection to provide a granular, actionable view of your infrastructure’s health. With this level of data, technical teams can detect subtle performance issues before they escalate, ensuring optimal uptime and environmental resilience in even the most elaborate architectures.
If you are managing multiple servers, let us take you through the five most important server monitor reports and explain how they will make your life easier.
Server inventory report
The tech community categorizes pieces of IT infrastructure as cattle and pets (that is a long story for another day). The short explanation is there are components that are ephemeral and components that stay. Your IT infrastructure can have any number of cattle and pets, but it is important to know about them. How do we do that? With an inventory report. Should you pay for an inventory report? With Site24x7, no.
Your servers, VMs, and containers could be across cloud platforms and regions and run on different OSs, OS versions, configurations, and many more differentiating parameters. But there should be one place where you can see all their details, and that one place is your inventory report. Here is what our server inventory report looks like:
In this image, you can see the selected columns contain only information like the IP address, disk partition count, cloud platform, disk capacity, and OS name. But there are other filters, like the domain name, CPU cores, processor, and kernel version.
To give a very simple use case for this report, it only takes three clicks to know which devices require transitioning to Windows 11 after the Windows 10 EOL on Oct. 14, 2025.
We have covered the strategy for IT teams to transition to Windows 11 in our detailed blog here.
Server disk partition report
IT infrastructures demand efficient storage management to ensure optimal performance and, most importantly, reliability. Disk partitions are not just arbitrary divisions on a hard drive. They are strategic separations that isolate system files, applications, and critical data. This segmentation plays a vital role in mitigating data corruption and reducing performance bottlenecks. This means knowing the statuses of disk partitions across servers and VMs is indispensable for any IT infrastructure.
A dedicated server disk partition report is important because it centralizes all the key metrics about your storage configurations. By providing a detailed view of each partition's total capacity, used space, free space, file system type, and mount points, the report lets your team perform proactive monitoring and maintenance. This consolidated data helps in capacity planning, early detection of potential issues, and ensuring that your systems are always running at peak efficiency. You can cut down on the risk of unexpected failures.
Simply log in to your Site24x7 dashboard, navigate to Reports on the left navigation pane, click Server Monitor, and select Server Disk Partition Report from the list of all available reports. You can configure this report pertaining to a specific monitor group or an account to be sent periodically to select users. As simple as that.
Host status report
The availability of servers still remains the top concern of SREs and system administrators. Though a NOC view dashboard is available, a report containing the details of the monitors by their status helps in sharing and analysis.
This report shows the status of each server monitor with RCA and the outage duration, bringing down your troubleshooting time considerably. You can set schedules to get this report periodically delivered to your mailbox. With this report, you can view the servers and VMs that are in trouble and allocate engineers to work on them.
Most resource consuming processes in a server report
Processes make or break a server. The primary purpose of a server is either to run a process or to store data. In the former case, the server is useful only if the process runs well. But there are cases when a single process hogs up too much server resources and eventually brings the server down along with multiple tickets to your mailbox. There are still legacy applications that require constant monitoring that are too critical to replace and too unreliable to exclude from monitoring. If you juggle multiple applications (which are processes in the background), you will need a periodic report generated daily, weekly, or monthly delivered to mailboxes of all the resource hogging processes in your servers. Something like this:
When you look at the historic resource consumption by processes data, you can pinpoint the problematic process and either fix it if there is a problem or allocate adequate resources.
Over-stressed servers report
Here are a few indicators that show how much your servers are being utilized (over-utilized = stressed):
- Load average (this is a Linux specific metric, and the closest Windows equivalent is processor queue length)
- CPU utilization
- Memory (RAM) utilization
The load average metric, for example, tells you if your processor is given too much work. A simple method to check if your Linux server is over-stressed is to always keep the load average less than the number of CPU cores. Consistently higher CPU and memory utilization are also indicators of overloaded servers. To view the list of over-worked servers, you can use the reports based on load average, CPU utilization, and memory utilization.
Site24x7 as a strategy for your servers
Schedule the required reports and get them delivered to your mailbox periodically and on demand. With Site24x7's server monitoring suite, in addition to plain server availability monitoring and basic metrics, there are added advantages:
- Any OS support (all Linux distributions, Windows systems, macOS, FreeBSD, and more)
- Automatic detection and onboarding for Microsoft applications and databases
- Auto-remediation, such as executing commands, running scripts, and restarting services upon threshold breaches
- Built-in log management capabilities
- File, directory, firewall, port, URL, and file content monitoring
- And plenty more
Make server management easier with server reports and more with Site24x7's server monitoring.