Observability vs. Monitoring: What's the Difference?

Released: Feb 07, 2024 |

Length: 7 pages |

Language: English |

Resource: Whitepaper

Observability and monitoring might sound like the same thing, but the two terms are actually quite different from one another. Observability and monitoring are both frequently used in IT, but they serve different purposes.

Read on to learn more.

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What IT Infrastructure Monitoring challenges are you currently experiencing? *

Managing and monitoring complex, hybrid IT Infrastructures

Visualizing service and business level KPI's.

Reducing silos for root cause analysis investigations

Monitoring hybrid infrastructure performance

Meeting GDPR data-protection, data sovereignty, and other regulatory and industry requirements

Ensuring IT ops focuses on essential operations and critical tasks

Storing and analyzing monitoring data

Reducing mean time to resolution

Avoiding severity 1 events that impact customers

Enhancing the user experience

Streamlining IT operations and agility

Reducing false alerts and alert fatigue

Tracking SaaS performance and availability

Modernizing legacy monitoring tools

Eliminating IT infrastructure outage losses

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What do you hope to achieve once the IT Infrastructure Monitoring solution is in place in the next 12 months? *

View and administer monitoring across on-premises, hybrid, public and private cloud

Supporting next-gen architectures, such as container-based microservices

Monitor infrastructure through one cohesive solution

Comprehensive visibility for end-to-end infrastructure-related risk

Deploy real-time observability and monitoring

Continuously check the availability of business-critical services and hosts

Quickly notify IT teams when metrics hit warnings or critical thresholds

Unified insight into the availability and performance of infrastructure and applications

Proactive resolve infrastructure problems faster

Automatically discover and profile hosts in your environment

Detect and rectify issues in real-time before they result in outages

Analyze data using AI to identify root causes and trends

Consolidate multiple, disparate monitoring tools

Smarter alerting that pinpoints the issue, not the symptoms

Integrate infrastructure monitoring seamlessly with IT Operations Management, issue tracking, and notifications

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What vendors are you currently considering? *

BMC Software

Datadog

Dynatrace

IBM

Kaseya

ManageEngine

Microsoft

Nagios

New Relic

Paessler

SolarWinds

Splunk

VMware

Zabbix

Zenoss

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