What is IT monitoring?
Anticipate incidents with IT monitoring
Definition
IT monitoring consists of checking the health of your IT infrastructure in real time or at regular intervals. Today, all the actions this requires can be automated with IT monitoring software.
IT elements such as physical or virtual servers, switches, routers, etc. form the backbone of your infrastructure and let your users work safely. It is therefore essential to be alerted as quickly as possible if one of them stops working.
In short, IT monitoring detects any error or malfunction that could disrupt operations and cause service interruptions.
Why monitor your IT system?
Today, IT and network infrastructure must be transparent and always on. End users, for their part, have commitments and goals to meet every day.
An IT service outage, especially a long one, frustrates your users and causes financial loss for your company. A company’s IT department therefore carries a heavy responsibility toward its employees and management.
The IT department must be agile and proactive to find solutions that guarantee uninterrupted service, or, in the event of an outage, the means to react immediately.
What happens today when a service outage occurs? On average, how long does it take you to identify the source of the problem?
How does it make your users feel? And you?
Physical and virtual server monitoring
Spot disk saturation or abnormally high CPU or RAM usage in real time.
Router monitoring
Get alerted immediately to an internet link outage or bandwidth congestion.
Switch and port monitoring
Monitor your network switches, whatever the brand, and avoid congestion.
UPS monitoring
Be warned of any incident on your backup power supplies and avoid blackouts during power cuts.
NAS and storage array monitoring
Monitor usage rates on your NAS and storage arrays and stay ahead of disk space shortages.
PC and printer monitoring
Spot a PC or printer that cannot reach the network and keep your users from being blocked.
What does 3D bring to IT monitoring?
What if you could keep an eye on your infrastructure and watch it evolve in real time? With 3D IT monitoring, you are alerted to an incident as soon as it occurs, so you can identify its source and fix it immediately and precisely, reducing service downtime to a minimum.
3D IT monitoring takes you inside your IT infrastructure. You move through your sites, rooms, racks and more.
Standard monitoring solutions are relatively heavy to set up and maintain. They require configuration and interpretation of the collected data. Once the probe is deployed, 3D IT monitoring presents all this data for each monitored element in a simple view you can navigate intuitively.