Overcoming IT Monitoring Tool Sprawl with a Single-Pane-of-Glass Solution

As businesses have become increasingly reliant on information technology, it has become essential to monitor the applications and infrastructure that support the business, to ensure that they are available and performing well. IT application and infrastructure monitoring helps detect performance anomalies, triage issues quickly, and ensures that the business is operating efficiently. However, despite its importance, IT monitoring is often an afterthought, deployed after an IT infrastructure and applications are already in place and functioning. Without a planned and well-defined monitoring strategy in place, most IT organizations – large and small – find themselves caught in the trap of “too many monitoring tools”: custom in-house tools, open source tools, packaged tools, and more, that add up over time.