collectd (https://collectd.org/) is a very stable and proven technology to gather system information. collectd provides a bunch of plugins (https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Table_of_Plugins) to gather information.
Configuration
This section describes how you setup collectd and send the data to our longterm storage.
- Installation of collectd
collectd is often provided by the package manager of *nix based systems. If your system is not supported, please find collectd at their homepage at https://collectd.org/download.shtml. For windows-based servers you might want to look at http://ssc-serv.com/ (which supports collectd, but is commercial). Please understand that this description is for the *nix based setup with collectd. Please contact us for question to windows directly. - s