Best IT Infrastructure Monitoring Tools of 2024

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    New Relic Reviews
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    Enhance your enterprise’s IT infrastructure with New Relic’s comprehensive monitoring solution. Access real-time insights into the health, performance, and availability of your entire infrastructure stack, from servers to networks. Built for large-scale operations, New Relic empowers proactive issue detection, efficient troubleshooting, and optimized resource utilization to ensure peak performance and reliability. Anticipate potential disruptions and keep your infrastructure operating seamlessly with New Relic’s enterprise-grade IT Infrastructure Monitoring solution.
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    ConnectWise Automate Reviews
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    ConnectWise Automate makes it easy to solve IT problems at lightning speed. ConnectWise Automate is a robust platform for remote monitoring and management (RMM). It helps IT teams increase their effectiveness. It allows teams to identify all devices and users that require proactive monitoring, remove delivery roadblocks and support more endpoints without adding to their workloads.
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    groundcover

    $20/month/node
    32 Ratings
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    Get complete visibility into your cloud infrastructure performance at any scale, easily access all your metrics in one place and optimize infrastructure efficiency. The groundcover platform offers infrastructure monitoring capabilities that were built for cloud-native environments. It enables you to track the
health and efficiency of your infrastructure instantly, with an effortless deployment process. Troubleshoot efficiently - acting as a centralized hub for all your infrastructure, application and customer metrics allows you to query, correlate and troubleshoot your cloud environments using real time data and insight on your entire stack. Store it all, without a sweat - store any metrics volume without worrying about cardinality or retention limits. Your subscription costs remain unaffected by the granularity of metrics you store or query.
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    Techniche

    $5000 for 200 devices
    33 Ratings
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    Statseeker is a powerful network performance monitor solution. It's fast, scalable, and cost-effective. Statseeker requires only one server or virtual machine to be up and running in minutes. It can also discover your entire network in under an hour without any significant impact on your bandwidth availability. It can monitor networks of all sizes, polling upto one million interfaces every sixty second, and collecting network data like SNMP, ping, NetFlow (sFlow, and J-Flow), sylog and trap messages, SDN configuration, and health metrics. Statseeker performance data are never averaged or rolled up. This eliminates the guesswork when it comes to identifying over- and underestimated infrastructure, root cause analysis, capacity planning, and other tasks. Statseeker's complete data retention means the in-built analytic engine can accurately detect anomalies in performance and forecast network behaviour months in advance. This allows network admins to plan and perform cost-effective, preventative maintenance, instead of fire-fighting problems as they occur. Statseeker's dashboards and out-of-the box reports allow you to troubleshoot and fix problems in your network before users are aware.
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    Paessler PRTG

    Paessler GmbH

    $2149 for PRTG 500
    681 Ratings
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    Paessler PRTG is an all-inclusive monitoring solution with an intuitive, user-friendly interface powered by a cutting-edge monitoring engine. It optimizes connections and workloads, reduces operational costs, and prevents outages. It also saves time and controls service level agreements (SLAs). This solution includes specialized monitoring features such as flexible alerting, cluster failover, distributed monitoring, maps, dashboards, and in-depth reporting.
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    ManageEngine OpManager

    ManageEngine

    $95.00/one-time
    1,246 Ratings
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    OpManager is the ideal end-to-end network monitoring tool for your organization's network. With OpManager, you can keep a close eye on health, performance, and availability levels of all network devices. This includes monitoring switches, routers, LANs, WLCs, IP addresses and firewalls. Insights into your hardware health and performance; monitor CPU, memory, temperature, disk usage, and more to improve efficiency. Seamlessly manage faults and alerts with instant notifications and detailed logs. Streamlined workflows facilitate easy set-up to execute quick diagnosis and corrective measures. The solution also comes with powerful visualization tools such as business views, 3d data center views, topology maps, heat maps, and customizable dashboards. Get proactive in capacity planning and decision-making with over 250 predefined reports covering all important metrics and areas in your network. Overall, OpManager's detailed management capabilities make it the ideal solution for IT administrators to achieve network resiliency and efficiency.
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    NinjaOne Reviews
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    NinjaOne automates the hardest parts of IT, empowering more than 20,000 IT teams. By providing deep insights into endpoints, robust security measures, and centralized control, NinjaOne boosts efficiency while safeguarding sensitive data and cutting IT expenses. This comprehensive platform offers a versatile toolkit for managing and securing endpoints, including patch management, mobile device oversight, software distribution, remote support, backup solutions, and more, thanks to its extensive IT and security integrations.
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    ManageEngine

    $9.00/month
    672 Ratings
    Site24x7 provides unified cloud monitoring to support IT operations and DevOps within small and large organizations. The solution monitors real users' experiences on websites and apps from both desktop and mobile devices. DevOps teams can monitor and troubleshoot applications and servers, as well as network infrastructure, including private clouds and public clouds, with in-depth monitoring capabilities. Monitoring the end-user experience is done from more 100 locations around the globe and via various wireless carriers.
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    Auvik Reviews
    Auvik Network Management is a network management and monitoring software designed to empower IT professionals with deep visibility, automation, and control over their network infrastructure. This innovative platform is trusted by businesses of all sizes to streamline network operations, enhance security, and optimize performance. One of Auvik's standout features is its real-time network mapping and discovery capabilities. It automatically generates interactive, visual maps of your network topology, allowing you to easily identify devices, connections, and potential bottlenecks. This invaluable insight helps in planning and optimizing network architecture for maximum efficiency.
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    NMIS Reviews
    FirstWave’s NMIS is a network management system that provides fault, performance, configuration management, performance graphs, and threshold alerts. Business rules allow for highly specific notification policies that can be used with multiple notification methods. FirstWave also enables partners, including some of the world’s largest telcos and managed service providers (MSPs), to protect their customers from cyber-attacks, while rapidly growing cybersecurity services revenues at scale. FirstWave provides a comprehensive end-to-end solution for network discovery, management, and cybersecurity for its partners globally.
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    Uptime.com

    $20.00/month annual plan
    264 Ratings
    Uptime.com website monitoring solutions provide unmatched visibility and availability, empowering engineering, operations and SRE teams to monitor & respond to their most essential services. Simple & intuitive industry leading Enterprise-grade features delivered at a fair price, that are continuously improving. G2, Sourceforge and TechRadar Pro have recognized us as one of the world’s best uptime monitors for several consecutive years, including this one. Try 100% free.
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    AdRem Software

    $90 USD per month/100 nodes
    151 Ratings
    NetCrunch runs on Windows Server (virtual or physical) and allows for efficient, agentless network monitoring, network visibility and advanced alert and remediation action management system. It can monitor practically any device, system or data source in your network, as non standard data can be pushed to NetCrunch or read from log, file or database to be included in NetCrunch network atlas. Developed by AdRem Software, NetCrunch includes 540+ predefined monitoring packs and ready to use sensors to track and troubleshoot network services uptime, performance of switches, routers, storage devices and applications, cloud services, bandwidth, and traffic flow. AdRem NetCrunch supports monitoring of all major OS types, such as Linux, Windows, VMWare ESX/ESXi, Mac OS X, and BSD. It allows creating all types of live network maps, performance charts, flexible dashboards and graphical views that are updated automatically, displaying live status of any monitored device, connection link, metric or alert. Data collected by NetCrunch can be shared securely via web console or any of over 30 ready to use integrations with most popular help desk systems (Jira, Freshdesk) or group collaboration (Slack, MS Teams, PagerDuty, Trello).
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    Pulseway Reviews

    Pulseway

    MMSOFT Design

    $27/month
    459 Ratings
    Pulseway, a remote monitoring and management software (RMM) for IT departments and MSPs, allows you to have complete control over your entire IT environment. Pulseway is easy to use and quick-to-deploy. It ensures that IT issues are identified, monitored, and resolved as soon as possible. The platform provides complete visibility through the Pulseway dashboard, advanced automation, remote management, OS & third party patch management, network monitoring and IT automation, custom reports as well as complete command traceability, email notification, and many other features. We also offer add-ons to endpoint protection, business management (PSA), backup & disaster restoration software, and integration with top AV providers to give your IT stack the power it deserves. Pulseway is used by over 6,000 customers around the world every day to manage their IT infrastructure. Get a 14-day free trial.
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    Netwrix Auditor Reviews
    Netwrix Auditor, a visibility platform, allows you to control changes, configurations, and access in hybrid IT environments. It also eliminates the stress associated with your next compliance audit. All changes in your cloud and on-prem systems can be monitored, including AD, Windows Servers, file storage, Exchange, VMware, and other databases. Reduce the complexity of your inventory and reporting. You can easily verify that your access and identity configurations match the known good state by reviewing them regularly.
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    VMware Aria Operations Reviews
    VMware Aria Operations, formerly vRealize Operations, is a self-driving IT Operations management platform for private cloud environments. It also integrates AI and predictive analytics. VMware Aria Operations automates and simplifies operations management. With full-stack visibility from physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure--including Virtual Machines (VMs) and containers--to the applications they support, VMware Aria Operations provides continuous performance optimization, app-aware intelligent remediation, and integrated compliance. It is available both on-premises and as a service. IDC, the market leader in self-driving operation for your most demanding apps for four years running, is the company to trust. VMware Aria Operations can be used on-premises or as a service in the cloud. As a standalone product or as part of Aria Suite.
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    Xitoring Reviews

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    Xitoring

    $4.99 OR Lifetime free
    3 Ratings
    SaaS for server monitoring and uptime monitoring Stop using multiple monitoring apps for server monitoring and uptime monitoring. Get Xitoring and monitor many servers in a matter of minutes with one command on the CLI. Everything will be automatically configured! Xitoring, a new monitoring platform (SaaS), for servers, is an innovative platform. Our agent (Xitogent), brings data from your server to ensure that your server is running smoothly. This will prevent downtime and performance issues and increase customer satisfaction. Our global probing nodes monitor your servers constantly and notify you if there is a problem. We are constantly improving our software and adding amazing features to it in the future. Inaugurated in 2021 to revolutionize the Server Monitoring industry.
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    Massdriver Reviews
    Deliver developer self-service with your teams security, compliance, and standards as guardrails. Massdriver is the cloud management solution for platform engineering, cloud operations, and DevOps that empowers your development team to spend more time shipping features and less time managing cloud infrastructure. Effortlessly design, deploy, and monitor your cloud services. The platform streamlines cloud management and DevOps, empowering developers with tools for self-service while maintaining the reliability that operations teams require. Scale your operations or DevOps team by enabling developer self-service without the hassle of managing Backstage or building your own platform from scratch.
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    Dynatrace Reviews

    Dynatrace

    Dynatrace

    $11 per month
    3 Ratings
    The Dynatrace software intelligence platform. Transform faster with unmatched observability, automation, intelligence, and efficiency in one platform. You don't need a bunch of tools to automate your multicloud dynamic and align multiple teams. You can spark collaboration between biz and dev with the most purpose-built use cases in one location. Unify complex multiclouds with out-of the box support for all major platforms and technologies. Get a wider view of your environment. One that includes metrics and logs, and trace data, as well as a complete topological model with distributed traceing, code-level detail and entity relationships. It also includes user experience and behavioral information. To automate everything, from development and releases to cloud operations and business processes, integrate Dynatrace's API into your existing ecosystem.
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    CloudRadar Monitoring Reviews
    CloudRadar provides professional monitoring solutions. It monitors all public and private servers, networks, devices, cloud and websites. CloudRadar promises rapid deployment using guided configuration and the best-practice alert types. CloudRadar's notification tool alerts users immediately of outages and other issues. It uses 7 different channels to send alerts. CloudRadar's notification feature allows users to set unlimited checks per host and can customize alert thresholds. CloudRadar was designed to provide a simple and uncluttered interface that covers all important monitoring metrics. It is intended for System Admins as well as IT managers. This allows them to monitor their entire infrastructure from one unified interface. They can also get deep insights into remote, office, or cloud resources.
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    InsightCat Reviews
    Full-stack platform for monitoring your hardware and software. InsightCat, a full-stack monitoring solution for infrastructure monitoring, allows you to search, analyze, aggregate and summarize system metrics from one place. The solution was designed to be simple and address the most pressing requests of DevOps and SecOps (System administrators, SecOps and IT specialists) related to infrastructure monitoring, security log management, log management, log management, and other issues. This solution allows you to: Perform infrastructure monitoring. Identify anomalies in your infrastructure and eliminate them as quickly possible. This will also prevent similar problems from happening again. Synthetic monitoring. Monitoring your web services 24 hours a day. Be aware of any critical downtimes in advance. Log management. Log management. Smart alerting and escalation. To keep your team informed of any unusual behavior, spikes or errors, set up the flexible alarming system.
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    SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Reviews
    SolarWinds®, Server & Application Monitor, (SAM), is designed to monitor and manage your applications and supporting infrastructure, no matter if they are running on-premises or in the cloud. Slow applications and downtime shouldn't impact your business services and end users. Find the root cause of any application problems across all layers of the IT stack. Automatedly discover the environment of your application and begin monitoring it, usually in less than an hour. No consultation or professional services required.
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    Netreo Reviews

    Netreo

    Netreo

    $5/resource/mo
    1 Rating
    Netreo is the best full-stack IT infrastructure management and observation platform. Netreo is a single source for truth for proactive performance monitoring and availability monitoring of large enterprise networks, infrastructure, and applications. Our solution is used by: IT executives should have full visibility of the business service, right down to the infrastructure and network that supports them. IT Engineering departments are used as a decision support system to plan and architect modern solutions. IT Operations teams can have real-time visibility into what is going wrong in their environment, which bottlenecks exist, and who it is affecting. All of these insights are available for systems and vendor mix in large heterogeneous environments that are constantly changing. We have a growing list of vendors that we support (over 350 integrations), including network vendors, storage, virtualization, and servers.
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    IBM Instana Reviews
    IBM®, Instana®, is the gold-standard of incident prevention. It offers automated full-stack transparency, 1-second granularity, and 3-second notification. In today's highly complex and dynamic cloud environments, an hour of downtime could cost you six figures or more. Traditional application performance monitoring tools (APMs) are not fast enough to keep pace or comprehensive enough to contextualize issues identified. They are also typically only available to super users, who must undergo months of training. IBM Instana Observability is a solution that goes beyond traditional APM by democratizing observability. Anyone in DevOps or SRE, Platform Engineering, ITOps, and Development can access the data they need with the context needed. Instana delivers high-fidelity data with a 1-second granularity, and end-toend traces, as well as the context of logical, physical, and mobile dependencies, across applications, web, and infrastructure.
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    Splunk Cloud Platform Reviews
    Splunk is a secure, reliable, and scalable service that turns data into answers. Our Splunk experts will manage your IT backend so you can concentrate on your data. Splunk's cloud-based data analytics platform is fully managed and provisioned by Splunk. In as little as two days, you can go live. Software upgrades can be managed to ensure that you have the most recent functionality. With fewer requirements, you can tap into the data's value in days. Splunk Cloud is compliant with FedRAMP security standards and assists U.S. federal agencies, their partners, and them in making confident decisions and taking decisive actions at rapid speed. Splunk's mobile apps and augmented reality, as well as natural language capabilities, can help you increase productivity and contextual insight. Splunk solutions can be extended to any location by simply typing a phrase or tapping a finger. Splunk Cloud is designed to scale, from infrastructure management to data compliance.
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    Zabbix Reviews
    Zabbix is the ultimate enterprise software that allows you to monitor millions of metrics from thousands of virtual machines, servers, and network devices. Zabbix is free and open-source. Automatically detect problem states in the incoming metrics flow. You don't have to constantly look at the incoming metrics. The native web interface offers multiple ways to present a visual overview about your IT environment. Zabbix Event correlation mechanism will help you focus on the root cause of a problem and save you thousands of repetitive notifications. Automate monitoring large, dynamic environments. Integrate Zabbix into any part of your IT environment. Access all Zabbix functionality via the Zabbix API.

Overview of IT Infrastructure Monitoring Tools

IT infrastructure monitoring tools are a type of software used to monitor the health and performance of an organization's IT infrastructure. These tools are designed to help organizations maintain high service levels by providing visibility into the status and performance of physical, virtual, and cloud-based systems. They provide real-time information about system availability, hardware usage, network traffic, application utilization, resource consumption, and more.

The primary purpose of these tools is to ensure that business operations continue as usual while minimizing any downtime or disruption in services. The collected data helps IT teams identify potential problems before they become major issues that can affect operations or cause customer dissatisfaction. By using these tools, IT professionals can proactively mitigate risks associated with system instability or poor performance.

Modern IT infrastructure monitoring tools offer a wide range of capabilities including automated alerting systems that notify administrators when pre-defined thresholds are exceeded; graphing and reporting functions which allow users to quickly assess system performance over time; and custom dashboards for monitoring specific components such as storage capacity or CPU utilization. Some tools also offer customization options like integrated enterprise applications for more comprehensive monitoring solutions across multiple layers of the stack.

Advanced features like AI-driven anomaly detection can detect patterns in data that indicate potential issues before they have a chance to become serious problems. Some cloud-based solutions offer scalability for managing large networks and allow for multi-site deployment on private clouds or public cloud infrastructures such as AWS or Azure. Organizations looking for end-to-end visibility into their entire environment may opt for an enterprise solution which provides both monitoring and management capabilities from one central location.

In today’s competitive market, it is essential for businesses to maximize their efficiency while minimizing wasted resources—investing in high quality IT infrastructure monitoring tools is one way to do just this. By taking full advantage of the features and capabilities offered by these tools, organizations can ensure optimal performance and uptime while reducing the risk of costly downtime.

What Are Some Reasons To Use IT Infrastructure Monitoring Tools?

  1. Enhanced Network Visibility: IT infrastructure monitoring tools provide detailed and comprehensive visibility into the entire network, so that administrators can be aware of any abnormalities in their system that may require further investigation.
  2. Improved Capacity Planning: With IT infrastructure monitoring, administrators can understand how much capacity they need to allocate or scale up certain parts of the network or infrastructure. This helps them make smarter decisions about new investments and performance optimization in order to improve operational efficiency.
  3. Reduced Downtime: Infrastructure monitoring solutions detect outages and possible causes before they affect production systems, so that proactive measures can be taken to avoid costly downtime from occurring.
  4. Optimized Resources Utilization: By tracking resource utilization, such as CPU usage, memory consumption, disk space, etc., administrators can better identify areas for improvement and actively manage capacity within their environment to ensure optimal performance of critical services.
  5. Automated Alerts & Reports: IT infrastructure monitoring tools offer automated alerts for suspicious events or incidents that take place on the network as well as reports for trending patterns, which enable administrators to maintain a secure working environment with minimal effort and intervention from outside sources required.
  6. Compliance & Security: With infrastructure monitoring solutions, administrators can ensure that their network remains compliant with industry regulations and security protocols as they will be aware of any unauthorized access or suspicious activity right away. This helps keep their business safe from potential threats.

Why Are IT Infrastructure Monitoring Tools Important?

IT infrastructure monitoring tools are critical to the success of any business. Without the right tools in place, it’s impossible to understand how your IT systems are performing and how they might need improvement.

Monitoring tools help businesses better protect themselves from cyber threats like malware and ransomware, as well as make sure their IT services remain available and responsive when users need them most. Through these tools, organizations can proactively take steps to resolve potential issues before they become real problems for customers or partners.

With detailed analytics and reporting capabilities, IT infrastructure monitoring allows businesses to improve the performance of their networks and applications by tracking key metrics that demonstrate overall user experience. By having this data readily available, organizations can quickly identify bottlenecks or inefficient processes that could lead to costly downtime or application failures down the line.

Furthermore, effective monitoring gives management teams more visibility into usage patterns so they can make better decisions about how their resources should be allocated. This includes determining if existing computer hardware is inadequate for current demands or if new servers should be purchased to keep up with ever-increasing user loads. The information gleaned through these metrics provide valuable insight into which areas of a network require additional attention in order to prevent future disruptions or unplanned outages.

Finally, IT infrastructure monitoring also helps companies stay compliant with industry regulations such as HIPAA and SOX compliance standards which require certain technologies be monitored on a consistent basis in order ensure data privacy and security protocols are being followed at all times. Without compliant technology stack configurations being regularly tracked by an advanced IT monitoring solution, organizations risk hefty fines for failing audits or non-compliance violations due to mismanagement of confidential information or customer data breaches.

In conclusion, IT infrastructure monitoring solutions provide businesses many benefits ranging from improved system performance to increased security defenses against malicious attacks—making it an essential component in any comprehensive organization’s digital strategy moving forward.

Features Offered by IT Infrastructure Monitoring Tools

  1. System Uptime: IT infrastructure monitoring tools provide the ability to track and measure system uptime, or how long a specific network or system has been running without failure. This feature helps administrators identify the overall health of their systems and detect potential problems before they cause an outage.
  2. Resource Usage: IT infrastructure monitoring tools allow administrators to get a detailed view of how much memory, disk space, and CPU resources are being used on their hardware or software. This can help them determine if there are any bottlenecks in the performance of their systems so they can take proactive steps to optimize usage.
  3. Alerts & Notifications: IT infrastructure monitoring tools offer alerting capabilities that notify users when something significant happens within the environment such as a server going down, data becoming unavailable, or security breaches occurring. This helps ensure that any critical issues are addressed quickly and effectively before they escalate into larger problems that could disrupt services.
  4. Automation: Automation is one of the most important features provided by these monitoring tools since it allows administrators to automate repetitive tasks such as scheduling backups, patching systems, and deploying updates across multiple devices at once instead of having to manually do each task for each device separately saving valuable time and resources in the process.
  5. Reporting & Analytics: Most modern IT infrastructure monitoring solutions provide rich reporting options that enable administrators to track key performance indicators (KPIs) over time allowing them to observe trends in their systems’ activities and gain insights from historical data which might reveal opportunities for further optimization or areas needing immediate attention due to irregularities. Furthermore, IT infrastructure monitoring tools can also provide advanced analytics that help administrators to identify deeper patterns in the data and detect anomalies before they become more serious issues.

Types of Users That Can Benefit From IT Infrastructure Monitoring Tools

  • IT Administrators: IT administrators can benefit from infrastructure monitoring tools to track their network's performance and availability, change configurations in real-time, and make sure the system is running up to date software.
  • Network Engineers: Network engineers can use IT infrastructure monitoring tools for troubleshooting issues with the network, analytics on utilization of resources, reporting on traffic patterns, and other diagnostics.
  • Business Executives: Executives can use IT infrastructure monitoring tools to get critical data such as uptime percentage of hosted applications or performance metrics of certain critical assets. This will help them evaluate whether their investments in IT are providing sufficient returns or not.
  • DevOps Teams: Infrastructure monitoring tools are integral for DevOps teams in order to understand how users are using their platform and what type of changes they need to make based on that data. They also monitor server health status, collect crash report data, etc.
  • System Integrators: System integrators usually handle client's existing setup as well as additional technologies that need integration into clients' infrastructures. Hence these professionals use an array of different tools for managing multiple systems efficiently; and rely heavily upon one unified platform for tracking all these operations in one view like an IT infrastructure monitoring tool provides them.
  • Managed Service Providers (MSPs): An MSP needs a powerful set of features from its IT infrastructure monitoring tool including but not limited to integrated help desk solution, reports syndication, ability to drill down specific information easily, etc. so they have a complete overview over their customer’s networks/infrastructures at any given time & place along with quick response times in case of any outage or issue diagnosis situation arises without wasting time over manual processes & respective overhead costs incurred following them.
  • Security Teams: IT infrastructure monitoring tools enable security teams to analyze network traffic and evaluate any potential security risks. It also allows for real-time alerts when unauthorized access attempts are made, enabling the team to respond quickly, if necessary.
  • Cloud Administrators: Infrastructure monitoring tools are critical for cloud administrators to detect problems early on, provide insights into user behavior and identify areas of potential optimization. It also helps them optimize system performance, check resource utilization and allocate resources accordingly.

How Much Do IT Infrastructure Monitoring Tools Cost?

The cost of IT infrastructure monitoring tools can vary depending on the type and functionality of the tool. Basic infrastructure monitoring tools may range from free open-source software to high-end enterprise solutions costing up to thousands or even millions of dollars. Enterprise-level products typically include 24/7 support, secure hosting, advanced analytics and custom reporting, as well as a wide range of configuration options. Low-cost IT infrastructure monitoring solutions also exist that may offer basic alerting capabilities for servers and networks, though these often lack advanced features and customization options for more detailed analysis and response management.

Some cloud-based solutions are available that charge a monthly or annual fee based on usage with no setup costs or long term commitments. Ultimately, the cost of an IT infrastructure monitoring solution depends largely on the scale, complexity and performance requirements unique to each organization’s specific environment.

IT Infrastructure Monitoring Tools Risks

  • False Alerts: IT infrastructure monitoring tools can generate false alerts, which can waste valuable time and resources by causing the IT team to investigate issues that don’t actually exist.
  • Security Risks: Monitoring tools give IT teams access to sensitive data, which could potentially be exposed to unauthorized individuals if security protocols are not followed and enforced properly.
  • Unauthorized Access: If proper authentication controls are not in place, it is possible for hackers or other malicious users to gain unapproved access to the monitoring system itself.
  • Denial of Service (DoS): Without proper measures in place, DoS attacks can prevent necessary information from being displayed on the systems, thus leading to incorrect decisions being made by the IT team.
  • Overwhelming Data: If too much data is collected and monitored, it can become difficult for organizational personnel to identify important parameters and make sense out of all the information presented.
  • Performance Impacts: Depending on the complexity and scope of activities monitored by a given tool, there is the potential that system performance can be impacted.

Types of Software That IT Infrastructure Monitoring Tools Integrate With

IT infrastructure monitoring tools can be integrated with a wide variety of software, including server management and automation systems, network topology mapping solutions, system availability monitoring programs, asset management applications, security information and event management (SIEM) systems, compliance auditing programs and configuration monitoring tools. These all work in tandem to provide an improved view into the health of an organization's IT infrastructure.

By providing real-time visibility of each component within the system, IT infrastructure monitoring tools are able to identify any potential issues that may arise and alert administrators to take action before they become serious problems. Additionally, these tools also make it easier for administrators to detect patterns or trends that could signal a need for changes or adjustments throughout the system.

What Are Some Questions To Ask When Considering IT Infrastructure Monitoring Tools?

  1. What type of infrastructure does the monitoring tool support?
  2. Does the monitoring tool provide usage reporting and analytics?
  3. How many servers, systems and applications can be monitored at once?
  4. Does the system provide real-time or proactive alerting for potential problems?
  5. Is it possible to customize dashboards, thresholds, alerts and reports based on user preferences?
  6. What security features are included in the monitoring solution such as authentication, encryption and logging capabilities?
  7. Is there a mobile app available for remote management access when away from office network/location?
  8. Are there any additional integration services provided such as cloud storage backup, plugin integrations etc.?
  9. How scalable is the architecture? Can it easily accommodate organizations with widely varying IT infrastructures without significant impacts to performance or cost efficiency of service delivery?
  10. What level of technical support is offered by vendor associated with implementation or custom configuration tasks needed by customer IT teams?