Best Server Management Software

Compare the Top Server Management Software as of June 2025

What is Server Management Software?

Server management software provides tools and utilities for managing, monitoring, and maintaining servers in a network environment. These solutions enable administrators to configure servers, track their performance, deploy updates, and troubleshoot issues. Server management software often includes features such as system health monitoring, automated patch management, remote access, and backup solutions. By streamlining administrative tasks and improving the efficiency of server operations, these tools help minimize downtime and ensure optimal performance. They are commonly used by IT professionals to manage both on-premises and cloud-based infrastructure. Compare and read user reviews of the best Server Management software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Site24x7

    Site24x7

    ManageEngine

    ManageEngine Site24x7 is a comprehensive observability and monitoring solution designed to help organizations effectively manage their IT environments. It offers monitoring for back-end IT infrastructure deployed on-premises, in the cloud, in containers, and on virtual machines. It ensures a superior digital experience for end users by tracking application performance and providing synthetic and real user insights. It also analyzes network performance, traffic flow, and configuration changes, troubleshoots application and server performance issues through log analysis, offers custom plugins for the entire tech stack, and evaluates real user usage. Whether you're an MSP or a business aiming to elevate performance, Site24x7 provides enhanced visibility, optimization of hybrid workloads, and proactive monitoring to preemptively identify workflow issues using AI-powered insights. Monitoring the end-user experience is done from more than 130 locations worldwide.
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    Starting Price: $9.00/month
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    NMIS

    NMIS

    FirstWave

    FirstWave’s NMIS is a complete network management system that provides fault, performance, and configuration management, performance graphs, and threshold alerts. Business rules allow for highly granular notification policies with many types of notification methods. NMIS consolidates multiple tools into one system, ready for Network Engineers to use. Scalable, flexible, open, and simple to implement and maintain, NMIS is the Network Management System that underpins the operations of over one hundred thousand organizations worldwide – making it one of the most widely used open-source Network Management Systems in the world today. FirstWave enables partners, including some of the world’s largest telcos and managed service providers (MSPs), to protect their customers from cyber-attacks, while rapidly growing cybersecurity services revenues at scale. FirstWave provides a comprehensive end-to-end solution for network discovery, management, and cybersecurity for its partners globally.
    Starting Price: $0
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    Pandora FMS

    Pandora FMS

    Pandora FMS

    With more than 50,000 customer installations across the five continents, Pandora FMS is a truly all-in-one monitoring solution, covering all traditional silos for specific monitoring: servers, networks, applications, logs, synthetic/transactional, remote control, inventory, etc. Pandora FMS gives you the agility to find and solve problems quickly, scaling them so they can be derived from any source, on-premise, multi cloud or both of them mixed. Now you have that capability across your entire IT stack and analytics to find any problem, even the ones that are hard to find. Thanks to more than 500 plugins available, you can control and manage any application and technology, from SAP, Oracle, Lotus, Citrix or Jboss to VMware, AWS, SQL Server, Redhat, Websphere, etc.
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    Starting Price: €90/month
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    Checkmk

    Checkmk

    Checkmk

    Checkmk is a comprehensive IT monitoring system that enables system administrators, IT managers, and DevOps teams to identify issues across their entire IT infrastructure (servers, applications, networks, storage, databases, containers) and act quickly to resolve them More than 2,000 commercial customers and many more open source users worldwide use Checkmk daily. Key product features: • Service state monitoring with almost 2,000 checks 'out of the box' • Log and event-based monitoring • Metrics, dynamic graphing, and long-term storage • Comprehensive reporting incl. availability and SLAs • Flexible notifications and automated alert handling • Monitoring of business processes and complex systems • Hardware and software inventory • Graphical, rule-based configuration, and automated service discovery Top use cases: • Server Monitoring • Network Monitoring • Application Monitoring • Database Monitoring • Storage Monitoring • Cloud Monitoring • Container Monitoring
    Starting Price: $0/year
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    Netreo

    Netreo

    Netreo

    Netreo is the most comprehensive full stack IT infrastructure management and observability platform. We provide a single source of truth for proactive performance and availability monitoring for large enterprise networks, infrastructure, applications and business services. Our solution is used by: - IT Executives to have full visibility from the business service right down into the infrastructure and network that supports it. - IT Engineering departments as a decision support system for capacity planning, and architecting modern solutions. - IT Operations teams for real time visibility into what is failing in their environment, what bottlenecks exist and who it is affecting. We provide all of these insights for systems and vendor mixes in large heterogeneous and constantly evolving environments. We have an extensive and growing list of supported vendors (over 350 integrations) including network vendors, servers, storage, virtualization, cloud platforms and others.
    Starting Price: $5/resource/mo
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    VirtualMetric

    VirtualMetric

    VirtualMetric

    VirtualMetric is a powerful telemetry pipeline solution designed to enhance data collection, processing, and security monitoring across enterprise environments. Its core offering, DataStream, automatically collects and transforms security logs from a wide range of systems such as Windows, Linux, MacOS, and Unix, enriching data for further analysis. By reducing data volume and filtering out non-meaningful logs, VirtualMetric helps businesses lower SIEM ingestion costs, increase operational efficiency, and improve threat detection accuracy. The platform’s scalable architecture, with features like zero data loss and long-term compliance storage, ensures that businesses can maintain high security standards while optimizing performance.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Redgate SQL Monitor

    Redgate SQL Monitor

    Redgate Software

    SQL Monitor helps you and your team find issues – before they become problems: Alerting – Discover issues before they have an impact Diagnosis – Uncover obstacles and find root causes Performance – See what has the biggest impact on your system Overview – View your SQL Server estate at a glance Reporting – Share tailored reports about your servers' health
    Starting Price: $1,565
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    SQL Sentry

    SQL Sentry

    SolarWinds

    Stop wasting time trying to fix SQL Server performance problems. Are you constantly fighting database performance fires, looking in vain for the root cause of SQL Server slowdowns? Without the right information, you could waste valuable time looking in the wrong places for the answers to your performance problems. You need accurate, actionable, detailed metrics to quickly identify and address database problems. With SQL Sentry, you can effectively monitor, diagnose, and optimize your entire database environment. SQL Sentry helps you get out of fire-fighting mode so you can keep your databases running continuously at peak performance. SQL Sentry gives you the level of detail you need to find and fix SQL Server performance problems. SQL Sentry is the flagship product in the SentryOne monitoring solutions set, and was built by SQL Server experts to help you save time and frustration in troubleshooting database performance problems.
    Starting Price: $1,628
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    Atatus

    Atatus

    NamLabs Technologies

    NamLabs Technologies is an Indian software company that publishes a software suite called Atatus. Atatus is a SaaS software & a full stack observability platform. It provides a wide range of monitoring capabilities including Application Performance Monitoring, Real-User Monitoring/ End User Monitoring/ Browser Monitoring, Synthetic Monitoring, Infrastructure Monitoring, Logs Monitoring, and API Analytics. Analyze the performance of your application for performance issues such as slow transactions, database queries, website availability, uptime, latency, response time, and throughput, much more. 24x7 customer support is guaranteed.
    Starting Price: $49.00/month
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    Sysgem Enterprise Manager
    Flexible and modular tools for monitoring and managing systems, administering user accounts and auditing security in one single screen - across Windows, UNIX/Linux, OpenVMS and IBM. SEM offers the three core application modules Sysgem System Manager (SSyM), Sysgem Account Manager (SAcM) and Sysgem File Synchronizer (SFiS) which all run via the SEM framework. Unite, simplify and integrate core system administration solutions across a multi-platform environment. Unify user account management across a multi-platform, multi-application environment. Manage the controlled distribution and deployment of configuration files across infrastructure.
    Starting Price: $200 per user per month
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    DymaxIO

    DymaxIO

    Condusiv Technologies

    DymaxIO is fast data software. Whether on-premises or in the Cloud, DymaxIO returns 40%+ of your throughput that is being robbed due to I/O inefficiencies. It’s fast, easy, fully transparent, and automatic. Fix application slows, freezes, timeouts, slow SQL queries, reduce cloud compute costs, and more, at the source. Get your speed back now with new DymaxIO. Undelete recovers deleted files instantly with continuous data protection, eliminating time consuming restores from backup. Undelete protects local and network-share files ensuring every deleted file, or version of a file, can easily be restored. In just a few clicks, content that took hours to create is back in a moment! Fixes performance problems, such as application slows and freezes, at the source. No tuning required. See a 30%+ improvement, increasing the efficiency of your infrastructure and that of your users. Sweat your assets longer, don't overspend on expensive new hardware.
    Starting Price: $10 per month
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    Nagios XI

    Nagios XI

    Nagios Enterprises, LLC

    Provides monitoring of all mission-critical infrastructure components including applications, services, operating systems, network protocols, systems metrics, and network infrastructure. Hundreds of third-party addons provide for monitoring of virtually all in-house applications, services, and systems. Provides a central view of your entire IT operations network and business processes. Powerful dashboards provide at-a-glance access to powerful monitoring information and third-party data. Views provide users with quick access to the information they find most useful. Automated, integrated trending and capacity planning graphs allow organizations to plan for infrastructure upgrades before outdated systems catch them by surprise. Alerts are sent to IT staff, business stakeholders, and end-users via email or mobile text messages, providing them with outage details so they can start resolving issues immediately.
    Starting Price: $1995.00/one-time
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    Epsagon

    Epsagon

    Epsagon

    Epsagon enables teams to instantly visualize, understand and optimize their microservice architectures. With our unique lightweight auto-instrumentation, gaps in data and manual work associated with other APM solutions are eliminated, providing significant reductions in issue detection, root cause analysis and resolution times. Increase development velocity and reduce application downtime with Epsagon.
    Starting Price: $89 per month
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    Infraon IMS
    A complete Unified Infrastructure Monitoring Suite for IT, Networking and IoT devices powered by AI. Powered by AI, Infraon IMS offers you a platform that provides precision monitoring, detailed insight and rapid troubleshooting for heterogeneous IT Infrastructure across enterprises of all sizes. Gaining real time reports and alerts on application and network performance on a single platform enables teams to collaboratively troubleshoot performance issues and proactively ensure top-notch service quality. Change from manual to automatic and simplify your IT tasks to skillfully manage all devices across multiple data centers from a single location. Equip IT workforce to seamlessly troubleshoot issues and ensure service excellence anytime and anyplace. Download, baseline and actively track any configuration changes in your network devices with color-code highlights, instant notifications and approval settings.
    Starting Price: $10 per month
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