Linux, no matter which flavor you choose, is so great for running services on because of its robustness. You can run as heavy or as light as you want, with or without a desktop interface, but whether ...

I didn't expect a server monitor this small to be genuinely useful.

For about a year, my company had been struggling to roll out a monitoring solution. False positives and inaccurate after-hours pages were affecting morale and wasting system administrators' time.