Infrastructure monitoring is often misunderstood, if not a neglected part of the entire field of data and app surveillance. Many IT professionals know this but are unable to explain the importance of the concept to non-technical managers, who often focus solely on real-time performance apps at the expense of the long-term health of the company.
What is the point of infrastructure monitoring? Its main goal is to make sure the entire IT framework, from a management perspective, is healthy and moving toward a better state as the years pass. In the world of application monitoring and maintenance, the idea of checking on infrastructure is long range planning. It’s understandable and common for non-technical professionals to miss the importance of this concept. Even financial and marketing teams that fully comprehend the value of 5-year plans for advertising, budgeting and stock offerings typically don’t realize that information technology has its own version of long-range thinking. Here is a review of the top ways in which AppOptics infrastructure monitoring boosts a company’s overall financial health.
It Finds Problems Before They Surface
When managers look at the entire app environment, they often find problems that haven’t yet had a chance to surface. For example, a careful IT audit of a monitored system might uncover a faulty piece of financial code within a shopping cart. Perhaps a customer has not provided payment yet, whether it’s from a credit card or tried to pay from a non-domestic bank. When you take time to do regular, full-scale audits of processes and apps, you find little things like this that haven’t caused any trouble, but could turn into major problems if allowed to.
One way to make sure you discover items like these is to do continuous checks of the entire framework as it pertains to monitored apps. Even healthy adults get medical checkups every year as a preventive measure against some of the most serious health problems like cancer and an elevated risk of stroke. IT departments do the same thing when they routinely test the functionality of all parts of their environments.
It Fosters Data Based Decision Making
When infrastructures are constantly under the microscope, management teams outside the IT environment have the luxury of being able to make data-based decisions on a wide range of topics. Even when these professionals don’t fully realize they’re using data-based metrics to form long-term decisions, they are in fact doing just that.
It Allows for Planning and Upgrades
Constant surveillance of the health of an IT system means managers can make needed upgrades when something is found lacking. Just as in the case of a house with bad plumbing or electrical systems, it’s always much less costly to prevent a major problem than to fix a disaster after it occurs. There’s no substitute for careful monitoring of the entire IT environment. Even when upgrades aren’t required, smart planning can sometimes prevent problems just by knowing about them.
It Cuts Losses and Prevents Excessive Downtime
Of course, downtime is the bane of all IT and non-IT management teams. They’re willing to do anything to prevent it, which is why infrastructures need to be watched for faulty components every step of the way.
