Infrastructure Monitoring - For Visibility and Control

The list of reasons and benefits for monitoring IT Infrastructure and Applications is definitely quite broad and varied.

Potentially you already know the most important reason, which has brought you here, so we look forward to being of assistance.

Amongst the top benefits for us is to gain and maintain Stability, Visibility and Control of mission critical IT components to help keep businesses happy, secure and operational. 

It is very important to have end to end visibility of your whole Technology environment to fully account for all the Devices, Applications, Bandwidth activity, Servers, Storage, Network Systems and Services that need ongoing attention, support and maintenance. 

Monitoring all the infrastructure items in your IT space provides an understanding of their vital signs, Availability, Speed and Usage. 

Having an understanding of those provides control, and peace of mind.

Prevention is better than cure as they say, and Monitoring provides the ability to attend to developing issues early, sooner rather than later. That's the key to improving system stability.

The price of downtime incurred from a Major Incident can be enormous, not just with the loss of sales and productivity and the damage to customer trust, but there's also the inconvenience of urgent repairs. The frustration of staff can be quite costly too!

Imagine the pleasure of having all your IT systems being constantly scanned for signs of trouble, like an early warning system, with notification alerts sent immediately upon detection of issues to the specific resolver teams for their urgent action. It just could save the day!

Perhaps you are suffering an IT staff absence issue, maybe your Managed Services provider isn’t responsive enough, or it could be just no one is looking at a granular view of your IT systems, so things are getting missed, faults and failures are occurring regularly, and downtime and stress are on the increase. 

By having Monitoring in place with sensors checking on various aspects of each device every few minutes, all day, 365 days a year, the existence of new a IT health problem or bottleneck can be discovered and acted upon rapidly.  

I understand many small businesses may not have the time nor resources to fully devote to managing all their IT infrastructure alone. 

This can leave them vulnerable to surprise faults and outages that may have been preventable.

Risks of hardware failure and data loss continue to grow, as does the complexity of managing an ever increasing diversity of IT products. 

But with some Infrastructure Monitoring diligently working away in the background whilst everyone is busy doing their day job, there is reassurance that there's always a proactive check in place to review the status and performance of your IT environment.

If something does suddenly stop or break without warning, like a failed hard disk drive or Server crash, or if the backups stop working, or nasty Ransomware triggers, then Monitoring can call it out and let you know within minutes.

The return on investment for having a Network Monitoring solution in place can be very quick, as avoiding just one day of system outages may cover the license fee in a flash! 

IT support staff can feel overwhelmed by the challenges of firefighting unexpected issues all day, not always knowing where to best focus their priorities next. Monitoring helps provide a clearer picture of system health to get them on track. 

Resolution delays caused by time spent running around trying to find the cause of a Major Incident outage (whilst probably also covering staff shortages),  could well be avoided by taking heed of the proactive warnings and alerts readily available in the Monitoring console. 

Once that's sorted, they can get back to giving better attention to the never ending cases in the Service Desk ticketing queue!

Brewstercat Technology Consulting can assist to achieve Stability, Visibility and Control in your IT world.