Outages of cloud based services have raised awareness of the vulnerability of cloud based applications and services (e.g. April 2011 outage of AWS and Amazon’s October 2012 AWS outage). Just because they are in the cloud doesn’t mean they are up 99.999% of the time. You still have to design the applications to provide redundancy and you also need to proactively monitor them to ensure they are up.
The eG Innovations blog has a great post on ROI for systems monitoring. The post highlights 4 key areas for that you should measure the effectiveness of your monitoring tool. They are:
- By the number of times the monitoring tool can help you avert a problem by pro-actively alerting you and enabling you to take action before users notice the issue;
- By the time the monitoring tool saves by helping you to pinpoint the root-cause of a problem;
- By the amount of time that the monitoring tool saves for your key IT personnel by allowing your first level support teams to handle user complaints;
- By the savings that the tool provides by enabling you to optimize your infrastructure and to get more out of your existing investment, without having to buy additional hardware or to use additional cloud services.
How does Deadman Heartbeat stack up against these areas?
- We proactively check your jobs 8,640 times per month (288 times per day).
- We help you to narrow down the root cause by enabling you to insert the Deadman Heartbeat trigger into any point of a job’s execution, and/or multiple triggers for a single process that you wish to monitor so that you know at which point the job failed. Thus narrowing down your search to the exact trigger that didn’t fire as expected.
- The alerts for any failed job can be sent to an email address or distribution list that you setup so that the right people can be notified. This may include your third level support technicians and/or the first level support team so they are aware there is an issue before getting complaints from the users.
- Deadman Heartbeat requires no additional infrastructure on your end, you just pay for the jobs that you need monitored. It’s that simple and extremely cost effective.
Deadman Heartbeat provides a high return on investment. Even if you never have a single outage, it is like you are buying an insurance policy because the cost of not responding in a timely manner to an outage at some point in the future will outweigh the small investment required to monitor your systems with us.
Find out more about what Deadman Heartbeat can do for you. Or try Deadman Heartbeat systems monitoring for free today and find out what you are missing.
It’s the fastest and easiest monitoring solution to implement. You won’t be disappointed.
