Distributed Application Monitoring Challenges

Computer systems today drive many aspects of business, controlling services and processes, transmitting information and identifying patterns and decisions. Increasingly the world is automated - yet who and what monitors the computers doing this work? How can we check their performance from the multitude of system parameters and program outputs?

System monitoring solutions require a number of capabilities to effectively aid the administrators of these systems. The operational alerts they create can also be used themselves as useful information in business applications that might track outputs from computer based measuring systems for example.