Reducing performance monitors

This option examines the number of performance monitors applied to devices in WhatsUp Gold. There are several issues that can arise if you have too many performance monitors assigned to your WhatsUp Gold devices.

• More database space is needed to store the monitor configuration as well as the data collected from polling.
• Increased CPU and memory usage from both the WhatsUp Gold and SQL processes during polling.
• Increased network resource usage during polling, increasing the change for packet loss and latency issues.
• Polling delays; for example, devices not being polled on schedule because there are other monitors in the task queue.

Consider reducing the number of Performance Monitors applied to your WhatsUp devices or increasing the polling interval for less-critical performance monitors.