Thursday, December 26, 2013

The Ideal Monitoring System

Monitoring systems allow your resources such as apps and automation software to ensure they run as per schedule and without jeopardizing your business. Ideally, your monitoring systems should be able to empower your systems such that there is no opportunity for downtime or outages. What can you expect from your monitoring tool or a system?
  • Ensure that no system crashes occur
  • Increase the surveillance such that potential problems or trouble areas are caught by the monitoring system itself before they snowball into an outage
  • It should be easy to deploy and run
  • It should work and do its job such that it increases the productivity and efficiency of your existing system
Further, in the age of networked systems, your monitoring tools should also help outline and measure consumption of the bandwidth you are using.

  • Your profits and business growth are tied in with your system performance. A consistently monitored system has fewer chances of failure.
  • Reduce your overall burden of investing and maintaining expensive IT infrastructure. A monitored system will give lesser trouble, in the first place.
  • Complement your overall business development efforts through proactive monitoring which allows your system personnel to catch potential trouble before it disrupts the operations.
Resource consumption monitoring

Ideally, your monitoring tools will also check your system and all apps on it for resource or bandwidth consumption patterns. When your system is checked in entirety, your resource consumption will also be revealed in the form of details of consumption by each app. Some advanced monitoring tools can also outline problems in advance, thus effectively allowing adequate repair and maintenance time before disrupting end-user experience.