FAQs - Temperature Monitoring
Information and guides on server room temperature monitoring solutions including network connections and sensors.
For a server room, you want to keep the temperature between 18°C and 25°C, which is about 64°F to 77°F. The ideal is usually around 20°C to 24°C, or 68°F to 75°F. Keeping the temperature in this range helps ensure your servers run smoothly without overheating. Regularly monitoring the temperature and having good climate control in place are key to maintaining a stable environment for your IT servers.
Servers start to struggle if the temperature goes above 27°C. If it gets hotter than this, you risk overheating, which can cause the servers to slow down, malfunction, or even get permanently damaged. If you see temperatures creeping up to 30°C or more, it is a red flag to take action and cool things down quickly to protect your equipment. UPS lead acid batteries also start to degrade faster when presented with high ambient temperatures.
No, servers are kept in cool rooms. The ideal temperature is around 20°C to 24°C. This helps keep servers running efficiently without overheating. Good airflow management, like using hot and cold aisles, also helps maintain the right temperature and prevents hot spots in the room.
Excess heat within a server room can lead to server failures and represents a potential fire risk. Monitoring increases in server room temperatures allow ‘hot-spots’ to be identified and corrective actions taken. A sudden rise in the ambient temperature of a server room or datacentre typically indicates an air conditioner failure or collapse of the cooling system.
Continuously monitoring the temperature of your IT closet, computer or server room can help to identify if the air conditioning or cooling system is set correctly. The lower the required ambient temperature, the greater the energy used and running costs incurred. Achieving an optimal temperature for a server room protects electronic devices, servers and networking peripherals, helps to prevent failures and provides a more comfortable working environment for engineers and technicians working in the room.
The air conditioners or cooling system in your server room or datacentre is designed to deliver a set kW of cooling. As more servers and racks are added to a facility, the cooling load increases and places greater demand on the air conditioning system. Monitoring server room and datacentre temperatures provides ambient environment data that can help to assess (a) whether more IT server load can be added to the room and (b) the effect of the additional IT servers on the cooling system when commissioned and running.