It has become the backbone of many organizations, where conference calls, meetings, collaboration, and sharing all take place. This dependency makes it a critical application that requires consistent optimal performance to effectively maintain user productivity. For most Microsoft 365 applications, monitoring performance of a service like Exchange Online revolves around Exchange-related services, logs, etc. With Teams however, ensuring optimal performance proves to be a more complex task, and even more so when utilizing native tools.

With increasingly complex systems sustaining mission-critical services, IT departments are hard at work designing business continuity strategies to avoid unpleasant surprises. Each year companies lose $26.5 billion in revenue due to IT downtime - either planned or unplanned. When there are critical application failures on the network the costs can hit a staggering 1 million dollars per hour lost in Fortune 100 companies.

Technology has evolved the critical need for accessing real-time applications such as cloud-collaboration, VoIP and video conferencing from anywhere in the world. CIOs who prioritize around the clock performance and availability for cloud-based productivity tools, have an opportunity to deliver more value and can give their business a competitive edge. IT dashboards are a critical tool in enabling productivity. However, one of the biggest challenges that IT leaders face is to integrate data from multiple business systems that are already in place, both on-premise and in cloud solutions.

Relevant and timely alerts are a key tool to manage application performance successfully. However, IT administrators are often overwhelmed by alerts. Either they receive too many alerts or get notified of ones that aren't relevant to them. By setting up alarm properties to suit your needs, you'll find them more relevant and avoid alarm fatigue. Becoming proactive, rather than reactive when it comes to detecting problems on the network reduces stress on the IT staff and offers a better end-user experience, by preventing downtime.