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Choosing an IT monitoring solution? What should your key considerations be?

1. Define a problem you try to solve.
For example, you provide a software solution to your clients, but you're only aware of an issue after they’ve reported it by themselves;
You use specialized software that requires a lot of specialists to support;
You have a , but you're unhappy with the cost / quality / functionality.

After considering a problem it would be easier to move on.

2. Consider your preferences.
Think carefully about the monitoring solution you need.
Remember that free come with limited features, so you will need to run different IT monitoring tools together to get complete functionality, which can complicate maintenance and configuration.

3. Decide your budget.
Different infrastructure solutions are charged on a different model – per server, per instance, etc.
Consider a Pay-as-you-go model to save your budget and avoid paying extras. You can start small by monitoring a single cluster and expand smoothly in time online. Note that even in “free systems” the training, implementation, and supporting fees end up costing between 50,000 and 100,000 $.

4. Implementation takes time.
Remember that choosing a monitoring solution doesn’t mean gaining proficiency tomorrow.
Adjusting between an IT infrastructure and a monitoring solution is a complex task for your provider. In the case of a free monitoring system, pay attention to the risks like poor performance and a cumbersome user interface, as often these systems are strung together from a large number of open-source modules written by different people.

5. Pay attention to monitoring essentials
Out-of-the-box , customizable visualization, or multi-vendor support are aspects that enhance your monitoring procedures hence allowing you to scale IT infrastructure. It's much easier to have all of the above in one monitoring solution to save time and resources for maintenance.

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“Insight” is anything that increases your understanding of how the system actually works. It bridges the gap between how you think the system works and how it really works.

However, the disconnect between massive amounts of insight — metrics, log files, dashboards, etc. — and improved service quality is that the itself is rarely actionable.

How valuable is a spike in a chart if you don’t know how to act upon it? Do you already use a solution that provides actionable insights about your ?

Share your experience in the comment section and we’ll collect more useful facts about insights for and .

Do you struggle with the lack of within your IT infrastructure? Are you still thinking about reducing software downtime and have not decided which solution is better?

We are always pleased to help businesses to reduce tech incidents and stay ahead of any unexpected issues with IT .

InsightCat is an AI-powered full-stack monitoring platform that predicts downtime and provides full observability, regardless of infrastructure's size and complexity.

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Full-Stack Monitoring & Observability Platform: InsightCat Overview Check out a brief overview of the InsightCat platform - full-stack monitoring & observability solution.InsightCat is an AI-powered solution that provides ful...

What is full-stack monitoring and why do you need it within your organization? What are the main processes and how does it work?

Get ready to learn more about full-stack and keep up to date on the latest news monitoring tendencies. InsightCat is coming soon. Stay tuned to not miss it out!

What "monitoring-related" topics would be interesting for you to read about? Have you already read educational materials about monitoring & that helped you in daily work? We would appreciate your answers in the comment section 👇🏻

Infrastructure monitoring in one place or is it better to split out the functions between several applications?

There are two points of view faced by the IT community nowadays: there is no decent “full-stack” option vs all-in-one solution instead of multiple.

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2021 in review for InsightCat 👇🏻

IT infrastructure monitoring: will your IT infrastructure survive the holiday season?

At the end of the year, companies worldwide start to prepare the corporate IT infrastructures for intensive traffic and unstable loads. It's the time when corporations, especially e-commerce, wholesale and retail industries, make most of their annual revenue in just a few weeks. But, the risks of being hit with a software outage increase equally, no matter what industry your business belongs to.

Don’t see risks of software downtime? Trust your provider? Well, as we saw in December 2021, even AWS was hit with an outage that took down some websites and services such as Disney+, Slack, Alexa, etc. In a matter of minutes, Amazon’s warehouse and delivery operations reported on Reddit that the issue became nationwide. Reddit news: https://www.reddit.com/r/AmazonFC/comments/rb2fim/so_apparently_amazon_is_down_nationwide/

We have prepared useful tips and recommendations that can help your IT infrastructure handle traffic increases, avoid software downtimes, and prevent you from losing revenue during the holiday season.

Top 10 holiday-proof tips to keep IT infrastructure up while holidays:

1. Monitor business-critical metrics with a proper threshold. Choose the proper framework for IT infrastructure monitoring and alerting.
2. Get actionable insights. Don’t work with raw data but get the most out of it to know what steps should be taken, especially under the pressure of intensive traffic.
3. Streamline alerting. Ensure your alerts matter to not waste time on fake occasions, e.g. when someone accidentally hits the load balancer with faulty requests.
4. Ensure that your service is ready to handle more loads through auto-scaling. Check that the autoscale policy is configured and working.
5. Ensure that your storage & disks have enough free space. Don’t rely on luck but always have an extra amount of resources available.
6. Perform synthetic monitoring for your websites and APIs. It’s better to benchmark web services through emulation than real and unpredictable traffic loads.
7. Decide a “plan B” workflow in the case of third-party services getting down. Be circumspect since even the most widely used platforms may fail.
8. Identify on-call workflow and engineers for weekends and holidays. It’s not a manager’s preference, it’s a necessity.
9. Keep software up-to-date. Apply updates, patches, and hotfixes in advance to avoid a bug causing downtime.
10. Enhance IT security. The holiday season (in fact, all seasons) isn't the right time to experience data breaches, leakage, or get contaminated pieces of data from the Internet.

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Full-Stack Monitoring & Incident Response Tendencies 2021

While figures are persuasive and experiences might be useful (and sometimes painful) - trends might reveal some unexpected facts. We have put them together in a human-readable format to explain the main tendencies in the and niches.

What are the most frequently used monitoring approaches? What do DevOps struggle with? Why is full-stack monitoring worth investing in?

InsightCat has analyzed the survey data from technical experts, the surveys on third-party sources and Social Media, and, of course, our own experience from day-to-day interaction with businesses worldwide, from SMBs to Enterprises.

There were 100+ respondents in this study, incl. tech experts and managers. The third-party resources are listed below:
1. https://victorops.com/incident-response/six-ways-reduce-downtime/
2. https://wikibon.com/breaking-analysis-cutting-noise-full-stack-observability/

Learn more about full-stack monitoring and incident response tendencies in 2021 👇

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Remain aware of the recent InsightCat interview about the company's plans, corporate insights, and the best things you might not know about us.

Check out the interview via the link below 👇

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AI-Powered SaaS Full-Stack Monitoring Platform InsightCat Allows Companies To Monitor IT Infrastructures And Predict Downtimes - SuperbCrew Relying on InsightCat helped companies across all industries to streamline and simplify IT infrastructure monitoring processes without extra effort and spending...

InsightCat Launched A Full-stack Monitoring Solution for IT Infrastructure Monitoring and Downtime Prevention Is it important to centralize full-stack monitoring in one solution?

Get comprehensive details about incidents with Incident Timeline management - part of InsightCat - a full-stack monitoring platform.

View, investigate, and manage incidents with full observability from the point where downtime was happened to what caused it, and how it was resolved, and when.

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Hi all!
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InsightCat is proud to be part of the IT Arena partner network. Our platform, InsightCat, is an AI-based full-stack monitoring solution for software and hardware infrastructures. It allows DevOps to gain observability and visibility into their infrastructures and predict the upcoming issues.

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Infrastructure monitoring

The cornerstone for any product and application is your infrastructure. Be it a small server in a basement, a huge data center, or hundreds of containers in a cloud - we got you covered.

The first important step is to install an agent to start collecting metrics or reconfigure existing ones to send data to the InsightCat platform. You have a few options to do so - go with industry-standard, like Prometheus or Telegraf, or install IC Agent.

We generate a ready-to-go config for you or you can just edit a few lines in existing configs to start sending your data. After we will get the first bits of data - you already will see them on Dashboard and Graphs.

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What is infrastructure monitoring?

Infrastructure monitoring is a must-have pillar for your application. It helps you monitor and understand your hardware, servers, collect metrics and understand the resources they provide. It's very annoying when you ran out of space or memory at the most crucial moment.

By collecting metrics on your hosts or from the containers and sending the data to the InsightCat platform, you will be able to see, monitor, analyze, query, and control all your systems. And even if you're away from the screen, we will analyze all sets of telemetry, and alert you when things go wrong.

Find out more at https://insightcat.com/

Insight Cat - Full-stack monitoring InsightCat is a SaaS full-stack monitoring solution, suited for both cloud and on-premise environments. We prevent downtimes by predicting the next incident.