Proactive Monitoring & Analytics

What gets measured gets done. Without the proper system monitoring tools and IT monitoring software, many things can happen and small issues can quickly turn into large headaches. This is true for all business sizes, for everything from small businesses to the enterprise. These monitoring tools are designed to make things easy by automating the collection and analysis needed to provide you with up-to-the-minute information that will help keep your systems and infrastructure running smoothly. What truly differentiates many solutions is that they also come with intelligence built-in to detect erroneous or even malicious activity within your systems. Such activity can ultimately lead to downtime or data loss, which can have a negative effect on your customer’s confidence and overall trust in your system’s abilities to meet security and availability goals.

When it comes to monitoring tools and IT monitoring software in general, there are a few key table stakes that are prerequisite when choosing a solution.

• Ability to monitor 24x7x365. Your business and/or data most likely work all day, every day. Without up-to-the-minute monitoring, you cannot stay aware of the pitfalls that potentially await your next move. You already know that things rarely go wrong when you are in front of the administrator console, but will go wrong when you’re asleep soundly in bed. So, it’s important to have a strong IT monitoring solution ready to catch the things that go bump in the night.
• Proactive alerting. So you're monitoring every minute of every day – now what? A key capability for monitoring tools and IT monitoring software is the ability to proactively make you aware of erroneous or malicious activity taking place right when it happens, not after damage has already been done.  System monitoring tools that have proactive alerting will increase your chances of avoiding disaster and reduce your time to resolution when solving both common and complex problems.
• Intelligent remediation. You’ve chosen your system monitoring tools. Great! You are now monitoring successfully and have proactive alerting to keep you up-to-date and ready to spring into action. But what about those things that go bump in the night? What about those annoying problems that are common and can be easily resolved? In the world of backup and recovery, enterprise monitoring across your backup infrastructure via intelligent remediation can help solve the most common backup problems, including human error, media failure, network failure and hardware failure. Using known fixes or pre-configuring corrections for common policy offences is the ONLY way you can ensure your jobs run without fail and your data is protected and ready for recovery when you need it most.

At its core, server monitoring helps keep you up-to-date by reviewing, analyzing and reporting processes that impact overall operations including security, availability and general health. However, system monitoring tools are important for more than just ensuring that they’re adequately serving their applications and users. In addition to monitoring applications’ availability and responsiveness, storage is closely monitored to provide you with warnings when your data is nearing storage thresholds or underperforming. In addition, IT monitoring software can help you understand additional items that could affect overall performance. These items include CPU and memory usage, general storage availability and overall system responsiveness that support the applications your business relies on. Just like with proactive alerting, server monitoring also helps with backup by keeping you up-to-date with information on what systems could impact or reduce your server’s health and ability to meet the goals of your Modern Data Protection strategy.