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Network monitoring and Log management solutions have been evolving over the years. Yet, it still remains a challenge for organizations of all sizes to extract desired business intelligence or to meet the operational and security needs using these solutions.
One stop solution or having everything in one place solves all the major infra management problems with proactive monitoring through a single unified intuitive interface that helps in:
1. Optimizing all network devices, servers, and applications2. Analysing machine data to identify trends and unleashing undiscovered insights3. Equipping IT teams to quickly identify root cause and resolve issues faster4. Co-relating metrics and log data to understand trends, user behaviour, etc.
By using unified solution you can not only speed up the response time to problems across IT ecosystem but also prevent them from happening again. With Motadata the vision of having a unified product comes to life!
It is rightly said — You cannot stop the threats you can’t see!
With disparate systems in place; different dashboards for network & log management creates information silos. With unified solution, you can see everything in one place & you certainly gain a better understanding about your IT operations.
Latest research from EMA states that 65% of organizations employ more than 10 individuals for managing monitoring tools or to keep tabs on the health of their running applications and IT infrastructure. So the key questions that every organization needs to address is:
1. With multiple tools, how do you determine where to look first?2. How do you manage to connect the dots to understand the interdependency of various network elements?3. Certain elements maintain their uptime, some don’t. So how do you track the element which slows down the entire network?
The same EMA study states “It takes 77% of organizations more than 5 people-hours to fix one average performance issue.”
Many IT teams try to duct tape multiple tools to have a broader view of their infrastructure. However it is almost impossible to avoid limitations and blind-spots. Cobbling up different solutions doesn’t help, in turn it makes things more complicated & degrades the entire end-user experience.
Shifting Resources from Reactive Repetitive Work to Contributing in Bottom Line
Recent Pulse report by Gatepoint Research states “47% of organizations use more than 5 tools to monitor their complete IT infrastructure. Jumping from one tool to another and a Siloed monitoring approach are top challenges that the organizations face today”
Let us understand this with an example –
John and his team are accountable for providing on-time support for new technologies to enhance productivity of employees and enhance the customer buying experience. When any outage occurs, John’s team wastes their precious time in finding and fixing the issue across cross-functional teams using multiple ineffective IT infrastructure monitoring tools. The downtime meant that customers are not buying or employees are not working. Moreover, when their team is busy fighting daily downtime issues, they are not able to devote their time to the innovative projects that could deliver real business value.
Find the Needle in the Haystack
Like John, you might not be able to find out the culprit until it’s really late. Similarly, there are many more consequences associated with lack of broad view of IT infrastructure. There are many possible issues which may go unnoticed every day. These signs can be studied by analysing network elements and simultaneously reviewing security event logs.
In the process of minimizing or avoiding losses from an outage, everything needs to be done in the nick of time or as real-time as possible. Having a unified approach helps in mitigating these challenges.
Automation is required to conduct the initial process of data analysis and to alert on selected events of interest. Event correlation and centralized log management can prove to be of great value in the need of the hour.
Conclusion
Save your IT team members from the constant battle of firefighting IT infrastructure issues and put a full stop to issues hindering seamless user experience, due to ineffective, disjoint IT infrastructure monitoring tools. Instead, opt for a unified solution to have a bird’s eye to spot issues quickly before they affect your end customers. This is where network management tools such as Motadata come in handy. Motadata is a unified IT Infrastructure Monitoring, Log & Flow Management and IT Service Management Platform, offering operational insights into your IT infrastructure and its performance and is designed to identify & resolve complex problems faster that ensures 100% uptime of all business critical components. Motadata enables you to make more informed business decisions by offering complete visibility into the health and key performance indicators (KPIs) of IT services.
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