A novel software framework monitors server statistics for a plurality of software modules and makes its collected statistics available to those modules. Unlike prior implementations, the framework provides shared server-monitoring code through which the plurality of software modules can monitor various types of servers, such as authentication servers, ICAP servers, origin servers, hierarchical proxy servers and so forth. Because the same server-monitoring code is accessed by each of the software modules, the overall amount of code that is written, compiled and executed may be reduced. Moreover, the shared server-monitoring code is not protocol-dependant and therefore may be coded outside of the kernel-level protocol engines. Preferably, the shared server-monitoring code is implemented as a user-level thread or process.