For far too long, hardware manufacturers, independent software vendors, and even internal IT organizations have treated IT monitoring as an afterthought. While virtualization, provisioning and orchestration get all the hype, monitoring is stuck within a reactive paradigm built on expensive legacy proprietary frameworks, cobbled together open source projects, expensive niche tools or cheap downloadable solutions that offer flash with not much substance.
To make matters worse, IT monitoring is susceptible to the ‘monitor everything’ syndrome that produces gigabytes of data and yields very little tangible results measured by statistics such as MTTR or SLAs. What it does yield is a scenario whereby IT is stuck with an abundance of disparate frameworks, solutions, elemental management systems (EMS) and tools that are expected to work together to create the mythical single-pane-of-glass.
During this presentation we will not only investigate why monitoring sucks but also the implications of continuing down this path within today’s new paradigms of cloud computing, programmable datacenter, or the software-defined datacenter.
Additionally, we will introduce the 7 Stages of IT Monitoring Grief:
1. Excitement
2. Frustration
3. Denial
4. Anger
5. Disappointment
6. Resolve
7. Hope
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