IT organizations often find themselves monitoring effectively at small scale, but few have implemented solutions with the flexibility and capability to operate in elastically scaling environments.

Service-centric IT organizations start with a solid foundation and may also:

• Use an elastic approach to scale monitoring platforms and data collection
• Store monitoring data using an enterprise-ready big data back end (e.g., OpenTSDB, Apache HBase)
• Optimize manageability and reduce footprint with agentless collection
• Load balance monitoring services across a pool of resources
• Store a virtually unlimited amount of performance/availability data

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