MONITORING

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In medicine, monitoring is the observation of a disease, condition or one or several medical parameters over time.

It can be performed by continuously measuring certain parameters by using a medical monitor (for example, by continuously measuring vital signs by a bedside monitor), and/or by repeatedly performing medical tests (such as blood glucose monitoring with a glucose meter in people with diabetes mellitus).

Transmitting data from a monitor to a distant monitoring station is known as telemetry or biotelemetry.

IT Monitoring

IT monitoring comprises a broad class of products designed to let analysts determine whether IT equipment is online and performing to expected service levels, while resolving any detected problems. IT monitoring tools range from basic checks to more advanced tools that can granularly examine a product’s performance, or even automate repairs when problems are suspected.

When used with a web server, an IT monitoring tool might analyze trends in CPU and RAM utilization, or determine whether hard drive space is running out and how often the system has crashed over the last year.

IT monitoring, which includes network monitoring and application monitoring, has evolved dramatically since 2010 to keep up with the complexities of IT environments. Notably, IT monitoring tools can now monitor both on-premises and cloud-based systems. And with hundreds of available monitoring products and tools on the market, monitoring systems vary greatly, each differing in complexity and approach. Thus, the perfect IT monitoring tool or monitoring software for one company may be a bad fit for another.

The concepts inherent to IT monitoring have wide crossover with other disciplines, including IT Operations Management (ITOM), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR), Operational Intelligence (OI) and many others.

This article explores the basic types of IT monitoring, the types of tools and how IT monitoring works in conjunction with management and network performance, DevOps and automation, and how to choose an effective IT monitoring strategy.

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