A lack of insight has plagued IT organizations since the earliest days of computing, leading to inefficiency and wasted capital, nagging performance problems and perplexing availability issues that can be costly and time-consuming to resolve. That's why IT monitoring has long been an essential element of any enterprise IT strategy.
IT monitoring is needed to oversee and guide the data center and its constituent applications and services. IT administrators and business leaders track metrics over time to ensure that the IT organization maintains its required level of performance, security and availability, using trends to validate infrastructure updates and changes long before applications and services are affected.
At the same time, real-time alerting lets admins respond to immediate problems that could harm the business. Read on to learn more.