Modern enterprise IT environments continue to grow in size and technological complexity, generating a much larger number of events than ever before. With this increased event volume, identifying and resolving problems before users are impacted has become a significant challenge.

To avoid being overwhelmed, IT organizations need a way to understand which events are important and which are just “noise.” Events need to include contextual information, like relationships and dependencies between resources, in order to accurately identify which events are true threats to service delivery and which can be safely ignored.