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Monitoring the Network

The most critical component of any application is the network that surrounds it. To ensure that your network is available and running smoothly, we suggest monitoring the following components around your email services:

Monitoring email Services

In this section we will review the monitors that are generally recommended to fully monitor your services.

General Monitors

The monitors listed below can be used to verify the health of all three major email services: IMAP, POP and SMTP. Use the following tables to identify the individual components to monitor.

Process NameOS / Application
imapdIMAP Daemon on most UNIX / Linux servers
Windows Service NameApplication
Microsoft Exchange IMAP4Exchange IMAP Service
Microsoft Exchange POP3Exchange POP Service
Please see How to Monitor Exchange with Uptime Infrastructure Monitor  for more detailed information.

 

Monitoring IMAP

Monitoring POP

Monitoring SMTP

Other Monitoring Considerations

Monitoring the Host Server

Don't forget the value of monitoring the server that is hosting your email services. Monitoring and alerting on the performance of your servers will be critical to ensure that you maintain server availability and meet capacity demands. Monitoring on key performance indicators such as CPU Usage, Disk I/O, Network I/O and Memory usage is essential to ensure your servers are running properly.

Next Steps

Now that you are monitoring your email applications, it is time to move on to one of these next steps: