What are Basic and Advanced Monitors?

What are Basic and Advanced Monitors?

Site24x7 licensing and pricing work based on the monitor type categorization.  For the ease of usage and based on the complexity of monitoring, we have categorized Site24x7 monitors as Basic Monitors and Advanced Monitors.

We typically charge for a host and IP combination. For example, a server is charged as one Basic Monitor, which monitors the server, its processes, syslogs, other resources on the server including URL, port, files, directories and more at no additional cost. Each server monitor will have one plugin added for free. After that, each plugin monitor is considered as a basic monitor. Likewise, for VMware, we charge by virtual machines and not based on performance metrics. 
Notes
This licensing list applies to all pricing plans before 2024. This is not applicable to Lite plan, Professional plan, Enterprise 2024 plan, and MSP 2024 plan.
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You can view monitors based on basic and advanced in the Site24x7 web client. Learn more.
Basic Monitors
Website Monitoring
  1. Website (HTTP/HTTPS)
  2. DNS Server, Ping, FTP Server, SMTP Server
  3. SSL/TLS Certificate, Domain Expiry Monitoring
  4. SOAP Web Service, REST API Monitoring
  5. Port (Custom Protocol), POP Server Monitoring
Server Monitoring (charged based on servers and not individual metrics)
  1. Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OS X Monitoring (agent based)
  2. Microsoft IIS Monitoring
  3. Windows Server Backup Monitoring
  4. Cron and Heartbeat Monitoring
  5. Docker Monitoring
  6. Each VMware VM Instance (VMWare monitoring using On-Premise Poller)
  7. VMware ESX Hosts
  8. VMware Datastore Monitoring
Azure Monitoring
  1. Each resource is considered one basic monitor.
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Monitoring
  1. Each service/resource is considered one basic monitor.
Amazon Web Services Monitoring
  1. Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) per instance
  2. Relational Database Service (RDS) per instance
  3. DynamoDB per table
  4. SNS per topic
  5. ELB per node (Classic, Application or Network)
  6. S3 Bucket and S3 object endpoint (after free limits)
  7. CloudFront Distribution
  8. SQS Queue
  9. Kinesis Data Stream, Kinesis Firehose Delivery Stream, Kinesis Analytics Application or Kinesis Video Stream
  10. Elastic Beanstalk environment
  11. Direct Connect connection
  12. AWS Managed VPN
  13. API Gateway Stage or API Gateway Resource
  14. ECS Cluster or ECS Cluster Service
  15. Redshift cluster or Redshift node
  16. Elastic File System
  17. Simple Email Service endpoint
  18. Step Function state machine
  19. Lambda function
  20. ElastiCache Memcached cluster, ElastiCache Memcached node, or ElastiCache Redis node
  21. WAF web ACL
  22. Customer managed KMS CMK
  23. CloudSearch Service Domain
  24. Route 53 or 10 Hosted Zone records
  25. Elasticsearch Service Domain

Advanced Monitors
  1. Web Transaction
  2. Web Transaction (Browser)
  3. Web Transaction (Browser) - Selenium WebDriver
  4. FTP Transfer
  5. Mail Delivery
  6. Web Page Speed (Browser)
  7. Website Defacement
  8. APM-Insight-Instance
  9. Microsoft BizTalk Monitoring
  10. Microsoft SharePoint Monitoring
  11. Microsoft Office 365 Monitoring
  12. Microsoft Active Directory (AD) Monitoring
  13. Microsoft Exchange Monitoring
  14. Microsoft Hyper-V Monitoring
  15. Microsoft SQL Monitoring
  16. Microsoft Failover Cluster Monitoring


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