{"id":18413,"date":"2026-09-29T23:33:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T20:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/knowledgebase\/whm-system-health\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T23:33:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T20:33:56","password":"","slug":"whm-system-health","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/knowledgebase\/whm-system-health\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Check Server Health in WHM (System Health)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hy-tldr\" style=\"background:#f6f7fb;border-left:4px solid #d83954;border-radius:10px;padding:14px 18px;margin:0 0 20px;line-height:1.8\"><strong>In short:<\/strong> To check your server&#8217;s health in WHM: go to System Health. It includes Process Manager to view running processes and stop any of them, Show Current Disk Usage to see disk usage, and Show Current Running Processes to list processes with the user running them.<\/div>\n<p>Sometimes you need to check your server&#8217;s state and find what is causing a problem. WHM has a System Health section for this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Log in to WHM at <strong>https:\/\/your-server-ip:2087<\/strong> with your username and password.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/zasogooh\/2018\/04\/whm.png\" alt=\"WHM login\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> Go to <strong>System Health<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/zasogooh\/2018\/12\/system-health1.png\" alt=\"System Health\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> You will find these tools (the list can differ between cPanel versions):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/zasogooh\/2018\/12\/system-health2.png\" alt=\"System Health tools\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Background Process Killer<\/h2>\n<p>In versions that include it, this tool stops known unwanted processes automatically and emails you when it does. Select the processes to watch and click Save. You can add trusted users whose processes will never be stopped.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/zasogooh\/2018\/12\/system-health3.png\" alt=\"Background Process Killer\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/zasogooh\/2018\/12\/system-health4.png\" alt=\"Trusted users\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Process Manager<\/h2>\n<p>Lists every running process with its process ID (PID). You can <strong>Trace<\/strong> a process to see what it is doing, or <strong>Kill<\/strong> it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/zasogooh\/2018\/12\/system-health5.png\" alt=\"Process Manager\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Show Current Disk Usage<\/h2>\n<p>Shows the disk usage of each partition.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/zasogooh\/2018\/12\/system-health6.png\" alt=\"Disk usage\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Show Current Running Processes<\/h2>\n<p>Lists running processes with the user (UID) running each one, similar to Process Manager.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/zasogooh\/2018\/12\/system-health7.png\" alt=\"Running processes\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"hy-svc-link\" style=\"background:#fff5f7;border-left:4px solid #d83954;border-radius:10px;padding:14px 18px;margin:20px 0;line-height:1.8\"><strong>Related service:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/server-management\/\">Hyyat Host server management<\/a> monitors your server health for you, with 24\/7 support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In short: To check your server&#8217;s health in WHM: go to System Health. It includes Process Manager to view running processes and stop any of them, Show Current Disk Usage to see disk usage, and Show Current Running Processes to list processes with the user running them. Sometimes you need to check your server&#8217;s state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_templately_pack_id":"","_templately_imported_at":"","_templately_source":"","_templately_import_session_id":"","footnotes":""},"doc_category":[2734],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-18413","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-whm-cpanel-control-panels"],"year_month":"2026-10","word_count":202,"total_views":"2","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"ahmed fathy","author_nicename":"ahmed-fathy","author_url":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/author\/ahmed-fathy\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"whm\/cpanel control panels","term_url":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/kb\/whm-cpanel-control-panels\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/18413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/18413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=18413"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=18413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}