Industry analyst firm 451 Research recently published a Business Impact Brief on how monitoring tool sprawl, which has long been a pervasive problem for large enterprises and government institutions, is creating even more challenges in modern IT enviro Continue...

You’re told you need a unified monitoring solution. But here’s the problem: so many vendors say they do unified monitoring — especially IT infrastructure monitoring (ITIM) vendors and application performance monitoring (APM) vendors. What you do know i Continue...

By: Brian Wilson >>We love our customers! Some like to keep their anonymity, but we do like to share interesting use cases like this one from a large utility conglomerate who is using the full-featured and commercially-supported, unified monitori Continue...

By: Jane Curry >>   The long awaited ZenPack Developers’ Guide is almost here! Excited to share that alongside the team at Zenoss, I have been writing the “ZenPack Developers' Guide” now for six months.  It's a cross between the old “Zenoss Continue...

When evaluating monitoring choices, cost is always a major factor.  While seemingly simple, pulling together an accurate accounting of costs can be trickier than expected, especially considering all of the variables that can be associated with each off Continue...

In this final installment of our series looking at real-world unified monitoring benefits shared by some of our largest customers, it is not much of a surprise that faster incident resolution is the focus. This benefit is perhaps the one most commonly Continue...

Framework based IT monitoring solutions have far outlasted their welcome.  As the cloud-era datacenters continue to throw unprecedented challenges their way, these tools, some fromtwo decades ago are just not aging gracefully. These “solutions” sold by Continue...

I attended the Gartner Data Center Conference in December 2013 in Las Vegas, during which Colin Fletcher and Jonah Kowall gave a presentation titled “The Elusive Promise of Unified Monitoring: How to Monitor Infrastructure and Applications.”  The prese Continue...

We recently had conversations with some of our largest customers that underlined some of the key benefits of moving to unified monitoring.   What we heard from these enterprise IT leaders is relevant to most companies tackling the challenges of monitor Continue...

While the majority of hype within today’s IT industry is around cloud computing, the reality is that most enterprises are struggling to deal with the everyday monitoring and management of legacy infrastructure, classic server virtualization, thousands Continue...