Tech Lover 9

Knowledge is power, and knowing what is going on with all your servers gives you the power to stay on top of things, address issues before they become outages, and meet your SLAs. With all the other tasks on your plate daily, how can you possibly keep an eye on all your servers manually? Hence a monitoring solution becomes vital, and a cloud-based server monitoring solution may be just the thing to meet your monitoring needs. If you are looking at implementing monitoring in your environment, here are the top five reasons to consider a cloud-based monitoring solution.

1.     Time to deployment

Unlike traditional monitoring solutions, cloud-based server monitoring requires only that you deploy an agent to the systems you need to monitor. There’s no hardware to buy, applications to install, firewall ports to open, or other infrastructure needs. You can go from zero to full network monitoring in an afternoon.

2.     Cost effectiveness

Like most cloud solutions, cloud-based server monitoring charges are based on a subscription model, so you only pay for what you need. Since it’s a subscription model without a large initial investment required, you can treat it as an operating expense instead of a capital expense, and the low start-up cost is very beneficial to the bottom line. Cloud-based server monitoring comes with all the monitoring expertise built-in, so you don’t have to pay for training or take the time to learn new skills. You know your servers and what needs to be monitored-the cloud-based server monitoring knows how to monitor that.

3.     Easy maintenance

When you deploy a cloud-based server monitoring solution, you focus on what you want monitored, and how you want to respond. There’s no hardware to maintain, additional operating systems to patch, or additional monitoring of the monitoring required. It’s a solution that comes without any additional overhead.

4.     Easy Access

Server monitoring ensures you always know what is going on, and cloud solutions offer a range of options to keep informed. In addition to automatically generated emails and text messages, with cloud-based monitoring you can log into a web-based management console, from a mobile device with internet access, to view the real-time status of all your workstations and servers, wherever you are.

5.     Remote Management

Cloud-based solutions work with lightweight agents to monitor the health of workstations and servers and communicate back with the cloud.  These solutions work great hand-in-hand with network monitoring software to give you total control and insight and give you complete visibility across all your monitored computers, whether they are on the corporate network or not.

With all that cloud-based server monitoring has to offer, and when you consider how easy it is to deploy, you owe it to yourself to check out the solutions that are available to you today. You can be up and running with a free trial in a matter of minutes, which will let you learn first-hand just how powerful a solution cloud-based server monitoring is.