The invention provides a method and system for monitoring resources, relates to the field of the Internet, and solves the problem that the existing monitoring scheme has no popularity. The method comprises the following steps of: a monitoring node server sending collecting information and event information to a server terminal through an advanced message queue; and the server terminal extracting important events and history from the advanced message queue and recording to a database. The technical scheme provided by the invention is suitable for a cloud platform and realizes common server monitoring.