IT monitoring and infrastructure monitoring

Proactively monitor your systems to prevent failures and ensure the reliability of your infrastructure.

Infratsructure monitoring

Infrastructure monitoring provides valuable insights into the status and performance of key system components, such as servers, virtual machines, containers, databases, and other backend elements. With advanced monitoring tools, Insight-Times engineers can visualize and analyze data, quickly identify issues, and send alerts in case of malfunctions. This proactive approach ensures rapid detection of anomalies that could affect user experience. This article explores how infrastructure monitoring works, its main advantages, the challenges faced, and solutions to optimize your operations.

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Identifying malfunctions in an information system before they disrupt employees may seem like an insurmountable challenge. However, IT infrastructure monitoring enables the detection of numerous potential incidents, allowing IT managers to take swift action to resolve them. In addition to ensuring system performance and availability, monitoring also enhances cybersecurity by detecting intrusion attempts or abnormal behaviors within networks and systems. This proactive approach provides accurate data on performance, facilitating the assessment of infrastructure effectiveness and pinpointing areas for improvement. As every IT department should remember: you can only improve what you measure!

Use Cases for Infrastructure Monitoring

The applications and services of an organization can only provide an optimal user experience if the underlying backend infrastructure is functioning correctly. With infrastructure monitoring, engineers can not only identify but also prevent malfunctions throughout the backend, thereby reducing service interruptions and ensuring operational continuity. Operations teams, DevOps engineers, and Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) frequently utilize infrastructure monitoring to assist them in:

1. Resolving Performance Issues:

Infrastructure monitoring plays a crucial role in preventing incidents and minimizing downtime. By using an effective monitoring tool, IT teams can quickly identify hosts, containers, or other backend components that have failed or experienced latency during an incident. In the event of a failure, engineers can locate the malfunctioning elements, enabling them to efficiently resolve support tickets and address customer issues. This proactive approach not only enhances user satisfaction but also helps maintain operational continuity and optimize infrastructure performance.

2. Optimize Infrastructure Utilization:

Infrastructure monitoring also provides significant opportunities to proactively reduce operational costs. For example, by identifying over-provisioned or idle servers, IT teams can deactivate these resources and shift workloads to a smaller number of hosts. Additionally, by balancing infrastructure usage, it’s possible to redirect requests from under-provisioned hosts to those that are over-provisioned. This strategy not only optimizes resource utilization but also generates savings on hosting and server maintenance costs while ensuring optimal performance for users.

3. Anticipating Backend Needs:

Organizations can anticipate their future resource consumption by analyzing historical metrics from their infrastructure. For instance, if certain hosts were under-provisioned during a recent product launch, it becomes possible to forecast and provision additional CPU and memory for similar upcoming events. This strategy reduces pressure on critical systems and minimizes the risk of outages, which is vital for preventing revenue losses. By integrating this approach into their planning, businesses can ensure optimal performance and a satisfactory user experience during peak demand periods.

The Importance of Monitoring in Information System Oversight

For us, monitoring is the first essential step in overseeing an information system (IS). It allows for real-time assessment of your infrastructure’s health and performance trends. To achieve this, it is crucial to collect an adequate amount of data to establish metrics, key performance indicators (KPIs), and logs.

Depending on the maturity of your IS and your specific needs, we distinguish between several types of monitoring:

Infrastructure and Network Monitoring
Monitoring the Performance and Availability of Hardware Components and Network Connections
Application Monitoring
Application Performance Evaluation: Analyzing Application Metrics and Business KPIs
Technical-Application Monitoring
Enables in-depth monitoring of end-to-end data flows across the interdependent components of your information system, achieving an optimal level of observability.

In cases where a network team requests supervision, infrastructure monitoring may suffice. However, for a more comprehensive observability approach, it is essential to connect the three types of monitoring. This enables an integrated and complete understanding of your information system’s performance and health.

Our Support for Implementing IT Infrastructure Monitoring

1. Optimization of
supervision

Through a Quick Mapping of the Information System, Existing Supervision Processes, and Data Volume, the Goal is to Gain a Clear Vision of the Current State to Identify Optimization Opportunities.

2. Framework and Guidance for Tool Selection in IT Infrastructure Management.

Workshops for Defining and Understanding Requirements to Propose Suitable Tools Aligned with Business Context and Operational Constraints. Providing Necessary Expertise to Define a Strategy for Achieving Optimal Observability.

3. Expertise in Operations Management and Optimization

Deployment of the chosen solution, customization of data processing (infra, applications, businesses). The objective here is to build a data correlation and observability platform in order to optimize performance.

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