Working from home today? You’re not alone. Well, maybe you are alone, but hopefully, you catch my drift. During these unusual times, many schools and businesses are keeping their students, employees, and customers safe at home while ensuring they can still work and study effectively.

When looking for a new monitoring platform, the options available today can seem overwhelming. SaaS, on-premises, cloud-native… where do you even start? Below, find a breakdown of five key capabilities to be on the lookout for when comparing IT monitoring platforms. Although some of these capabilities are now must-haves for all platforms, certain providers still offer up richer feature sets and benefits.

At the core of the LogicMonitor solution, there is the LogicMonitor Collector. The Collector is a small Java app installed on servers in your environment that collects monitored data from your various devices and then sends that data to LogicMonitor for retention and display. The Collector is what connects your environment to the cloud and allows you access from anywhere. However, sometimes these Collectors can go down, potentially leading to gaps in monitoring.

At LogicMonitor, we believe our platform enables our customers to See More, Know More, and Do More, to keep up with the rapid pace of change in business today. The following is an interesting use case that illustrates how LogicMonitor can provide quick insight to enable modern IT teams to work proactively and perform at maximum operational efficiency.

The race is on to turn data into useful information. Company executives across a wide range of departments are increasingly tasked with modernization and digital transformation initiatives. But what is digital transformation in IT? IT pros are racing to keep up with rapid industry changes and must consider efforts such as digitizing assets, restructuring department goals to focus on providing a seamless customer experience, or shifting from on-premises to public cloud.

LogicMonitor is expanding its Cisco platform coverage by releasing new Cisco HyperFlex LogicModules. Hyperflex is Cisco’s hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) platform. This platform is designed to tightly integrate storage, network, and virtualization for ease of use and efficient scalability. With LogicMonitor’s Cisco HyperFlex package, which leverages the Cisco HyperFlex REST API, you can monitor a large number of HyperFlex operations.

Curious about AIOps these days? You’re not alone. AIOps (Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations) is all about analyzing and automating your IT operations using artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms. These operations include end-to-end workflows that bring monitoring, analytics, incident management, and automation systems together with a common goal of optimizing and automating operational tasks.