Hardware Monitoring
Hardware monitoring involves using software tools to track and analyze the performance, health, and status of physical computer components such as CPUs, GPUs, memory, storage drives, and network interfaces. It provides real-time metrics like temperature, usage percentages, power consumption, and error rates to ensure system stability and prevent failures. This is essential for maintaining optimal performance in servers, data centers, gaming rigs, and embedded systems.
Developers should learn hardware monitoring to diagnose performance bottlenecks, prevent overheating or hardware damage, and ensure reliability in production environments, especially for resource-intensive applications like gaming, AI/ML workloads, or high-traffic web services. It's critical in DevOps and system administration roles for proactive maintenance and capacity planning in cloud or on-premise infrastructure.