- Your m
onitoring solution should make your life easier, not harder. - Monitoring should not have to be a full time job.
- Data collection, alerting, trending and reporting should all be integrated.
- Everyone in IT/Ops should be able to use your monitoring – not just the person that set it up.
- Monitoring should tell people about changes in your infrastructure – not be dependent on humans to know of changes.
- Data should be presented in a way that enlightens everyone – from IT and Ops to the CFO and CEO.
- Monitoring should be outside your own infrastructure. And your cloud provider’s infrastructure.
- Using more than one monitoring tool for all your infrastructure is inefficient. Using less than one is crazy.
- Your IT and Ops people can add much more value to your business if they are not stuck doing monitoring.
- Owning your own monitoring infrastructure does not add value to your business. Unless you are a monitoring company.
Steve Francis
Steve Francis is an employee at LogicMonitor.
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