Nutanix was trying to improve their ability to ensure application performance by getting service-centric visibility. They needed to unify monitoring across infrastructure, applications, databases, directory services and more. Nutanix began to evaluate a number of monitoring solutions and found many of the options to be complicated, which was a "showstopper" for Nutanix. It was critically important that the monitoring platform they chose provide total visibility with low overhead, enhancing their team's agility as new services get deployed.