by Jonah Kowall | October 3, 2012 | 4 Comments
With some of the research I completed towards the end of last year, I take a pretty consistent set of requests on the evaluation and use of open source monitoring. If you are following some of the fun conversations on “monitoring sucks” you will notice that not only do most traditional monitoring systems fail to [...]
Category: APM DevOps IT Operations Logfile Monitoring SaaS Tags:
by Jonah Kowall | December 23, 2011 | 3 Comments
Before I sign off for a few days of vacation Will Cappelli and I did manage to get an interesting research note published, which we have been working on for the last month or longer. This note outlines several vendors or “innovators” which were not in the APM Magic Quadrant this year for not meeting [...]
Category: Analytics APM Big Data IT Operations Logfile Monitoring OLM SaaS Tags:
by Jonah Kowall | December 13, 2011 | Submit a Comment
Will Cappelli and I have published a series of notes which should be of interest to anyone buying monitoring technologies. We are all keeping an eye on the major uptick we are seeing in those that are interested in various monitoring technologies which are hosted externally. We call these solutions Monitoring as a service (MaaS), [...]
Category: APM IT Operations Logfile Monitoring SaaS Tags:
by Jonah Kowall | November 28, 2011 | Submit a Comment
I have co-authored two notes with my colleague Cameron Haight who focuses on DevOps and general cloud operations topics at Gartner. We have authored two notes around DevOps and Monitoring, the first note being mostly Cameron’s ideas and execution is named DevOps and Monitoring: New Rules for New Environments which covers the differences in how and [...]
Category: Big Data DevOps IT Operations Logfile Monitoring SaaS Tags:
by Jonah Kowall | July 6, 2011 | 2 Comments
There are ongoing discussions around how we can leverage log data collected for one process or analysis across many tools which want to consume and analyze this data. The log data could come from network devices, servers, applications, or other controllers used in the datacenter. These log sources need to be parsed, analyzed, correlated, and [...]
by Jonah Kowall | May 5, 2011 | Submit a Comment
My recent note on monitoring Citrix XenApp environments has been released. I go into discussions on the different approaches that can be taken based on the criticality of XenApp to your business operations (http://www.gartner.com/resId=1659314) I am currently in process with 2 other notes which may be of interest. The first one focuses on Application Support’s [...]
Category: Analytics ECA IT Operations Logfile Tags:
by Jonah Kowall | April 19, 2011 | 1 Comment
Much of the unstructured data we collect from our infrastructure components has limited value. It’s often used to understand threats against our organizations in common SIEM type tools. Yet another set of technologies have evolved in the business intelligence space, as well as the web analytics space to make sense of this type of data. These tools [...]
Category: ECA IT Operations Logfile OLM Tags:
