Question 1

What does AdministerPoint server monitoring track?

Accepted Answer

A lightweight Go agent installed on each Linux host reports aggregate CPU usage, memory used and total, root-filesystem disk usage, 1/5/15-minute load averages, host uptime, and cumulative network receive/transmit counters. Where the host exposes thermal sensors it can also record hardware temperature readings (Beta). Everything appears in the Instance Monitoring dashboard, where you can review recent metric history and trends.

Question 2

Which operating systems and architectures are supported?

Accepted Answer

Linux only, on amd64 and arm64. The agent is a single static Go binary that reads standard Linux kernel interfaces under /proc and /sys. There is no agent for Windows, macOS or FreeBSD and no 32-bit build, so hosts running those operating systems cannot be monitored by this agent.

Question 3

How is the monitoring agent installed?

Accepted Answer

You connect to the Linux server over SSH and run a one-command installer, or follow the manual install steps for your distribution. The same host agent can also run inside a Docker container purely as a deployment option, and the installer verifies the binary with SHA-256 when a checksum is available. Running the agent in Docker does not add per-container monitoring; it reports metrics for the host it runs on.

Question 4

How many servers can I monitor?

Accepted Answer

Server capacity is 2 on the free Starter plan, 20 on Professional, and unlimited on Enterprise. Servers are counted separately from service monitors, so adding a server never consumes a website, API or heartbeat monitor slot.

Question 5

What system information does the agent collect?

Accepted Answer

At registration the agent reports basic host details: hostname, operating system type and version, CPU model and core count, total memory, total root-disk capacity, and the agent version. This is basic host inventory rather than full hardware discovery; it does not scan motherboard, BIOS, GPU or per-device assets, and it does not collect per-process or per-core utilization.

Question 6

Does temperature monitoring work on every server?

Accepted Answer

No. Hardware temperature monitoring is in Beta and depends on the Linux host exposing thermal sensors through sysfs or lm-sensors. Many virtualized cloud VPS instances do not expose these sensors and therefore report no temperature data, while bare-metal hosts that do expose them report the readings the kernel provides. Temperature is shown for visibility only; there are no temperature threshold alerts.

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