IT Performance Monitoring Tools: Reading Between the Lines

With hundreds of monitoring products being promoted today, navigating the features of different products can be a significant challenge. It's important to 'read between the lines' when looking at marketing literature associated with monitoring tools. Often jargons are just used for the sake of marketing and it makes monitoring tool evaluation hard for IT teams.

Almost all suppliers of monitoring use words like 'root cause', 'proactive', 'topology' and 'dashboards'. While these terms seem simple, it's important to understand how these apply from a technology monitoring standpoint.

Read this eG Innovations white paper and find out what you need to know about these terms:

• What is root cause analysis and what should I look for?
• How can a monitor make effective use of a topology diagram?
• Why are dashboards important and how should they be used?
• What does it really mean to be proactive from a monitoring standpoint?

Don't just inherit an IT monitoring tool. Make an informed-decision and select the right solution for your IT environment.