What kind of questions do you ask when you look at infrastructure monitoring tools? You probably start with some of the more important ones: All of the above are good questions and definitely should be asked. After all, if you acquire a solution that only monitors half of your network devices, has an incredibly complicated and difficult to use UI or doesn’t move you from reactive to proactive, the benefits are limited.
The cloud offers unparalleled flexibility. However, that flexibility comes at a cost. The amount of moving pieces increases. The environment becomes more heterogeneous. So, if you want to stay on top of things, you need a more comprehensive view of your cloud infrastructure. After all, you don’t want your customers to realize that something has gone awry before your people do. In this post, I’m going to talk about cloud monitoring.
Let’s say that you’re a real estate investor with lots of buildings in your portfolio. But you choose not to employ a caretaker when you fully know that you aren’t always available to monitor every building. What do you think will become of some of them?
Companies are increasingly adopting cloud services. They’re cost-efficient, scalable, and give you time to market by getting your ideas out there as quickly as possible. However, cloud services don’t have extensive, in-built cloud application monitoring. This is where Netreo steps in. Let’s take a look at what cloud computing is. After that, we’ll dive into cloud application monitoring and how it affects business decisions.
Netreo SaaS delivers a single solution for simplifying how IT organizations optimize today’s hybrid blend of on-premises, public and private clouds that are common in complex, global enterprise infrastructures. With the upcoming release of cloud monitoring enhancements coming in March, Netreo SaaS will provide even greater, multi-cloud monitoring capabilities and extended functionality for Microsoft Azure and AWS cloud customers.
How do you monitor your network? There are a myriad of technologies and tools out there, each providing different benefits and challenges. Today we are going to focus on one specific area, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Traps. That’s right, we are going narrow here, not just focusing on SNMP but on one specific portion of the protocol: namely the ability of devices that support SNMP to send alert information to collectors.
Digital transformation is causing the IT ecosphere to evolve, and the evolution is being accelerated by competitive necessity. Enterprises are using digital technology to increase revenue and lower costs. Failure to compete effectively will have devastating consequences. Digital transformation requires that IT evolve from a cost center to a value creator. FinOps and DevOps are processes that include the entire enterprise in value creation.
IT infrastructures are in a constant state of change. From centralized mainframe systems to distributed serverless multi-cloud environments, these changes have happened relatively quickly. And nothing is stopping it. Gartner predicts that by 2023, over 90% of IT organizations will have most of their staff working remotely. This is largely due to companies shifting to using more cloud services. IT operations teams have had to find ways to keep up by implementing effective IT infrastructure monitoring.
With the rapid pace of change in applications and the infrastructure they run on, it’s more important now than ever to monitor what’s happening. Using an application performance monitoring (APM) tool can help provide the necessary visibility and insight you need for proactive and reactive problem resolution. But whether you’re looking for a replacement or have no monitoring in place, where do you start?
