In the world of IT, service monitoring refers to a system used by hosting providers to check on servers within a network. The system's purpose is to ascertain whether each server is online and working as it should be. It's a great way to get an overview of how effectively solutions are operating. At UKFast, service monitoring checks up on a server every five minutes, sending out an alert if there are three consecutive failures. PING monitoring An example of this function is PING, which is the most commonly used health check for monitoring server functionality. It does this by sending an echo…