Best IT Infrastructure Monitoring Tools

IT infrastructure monitoring tools enable organizations to identify and resolve IT infrastructure problems before they can adversely affect critical business processes. They give insight into the status of physical, virtual, and cloud systems and help ensure availability and performance. In addition to monitoring the entire infrastructure and business processes, they can also help with planning for upgrades before outdated systems begin to cause failures and respond to issues as soon as problems become evident. They...

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LogicMonitor

LogicMonitor’s SaaS-based platform, LM Envision, enables observability across on-prem and multi-cloud environments. It provides IT and business teams operational visibility and predictability across their technologies and applications.

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IBM Instana

Instana, an IBM company since the December 2020 acquisition, provides APM services for SOA, microservices, containerized applications and Kubernetes, and cloud native applications, as well as discovery and monitoring for IT assets.

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New Relic

New Relic is a SaaS-based web and mobile application performance management provider for the cloud and the datacenter. They provide code-level diagnostics for dedicated infrastructures, the cloud, or hybrid environments and real time monitoring.

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AppDynamics

AppDynamics is an APM and Mobile APM program, with application mapping and predictive capabilities. These capacities enable automated remediation and code-level diagnostics in real time. It can be deployed on-premise or as a SaaS.

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ScienceLogic SL1

ScienceLogic is a system and application monitoring and performance management platform. ScienceLogic collects and aggregates data across and IT ecosystems and contextualizes it for actionable insights with the SL1 product offering.

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ManageEngine OpManager

ManageEngine's OpManager is network performance monitoring software.

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Dynatrace

Dynatrace is an APM scaled for enterprises with cloud, on-premise, and hybrid application and SaaS monitoring. Dynatrace uses AI-supported algorithms to provide continual APM self-learning and predictive alerts for proactive issue resolution.

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Datadog

Datadog is a monitoring service for IT, Dev and Ops teams who write and run applications at scale, and want to turn the massive amounts of data produced by their apps, tools and services into actionable insight.

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Auvik

Auvik Network Management is a vendor-agnostic cloud-based network monitoring and management solution providing automated network discovery. Auvik requires no se…

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Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring

SignalFX is Real-Time Cloud Monitoring and Observability for Infrastructure, Microservices and Applications. SignalFX was acquired by Splunk in August 2019. SignalFX Infrastructure Monitoring provides real-time cloud monitoring and observability platform for infrastructure, microservices…

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Nagios Core

Nagios provides monitoring of all mission-critical infrastructure components. Multiple APIs and community-build add-ons enable integration and monitoring with in-house and third-party applications for optimized scaling.

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SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) delivers application and server monitoring capabilities. SAM allows for self-service for easy setup, 1200+ monitoring templates, and customization options, as well as integrate with other SolarWinds products.

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InsightCat
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Full-stack infrastructure monitoring solution for software and hardware.

InsightCat is a comprehensive SaaS platform covering infrastructure monitoring, synthetic monitoring, log management, APM, and related processes.
The platform is supplied with an auto-discovery feature that automatically explores the IT environm…

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SolarWinds AppOptics

SolarWinds AppOptics (formerly Librato) is an IT infrastructure monitoring service and APM, based on technology acquired by SolarWinds with Librato in 2015 to expand its cloud monitoring portfolio.

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Checkmk

Checkmk is a solution for IT Monitoring of servers, applications, networks,…

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Pulseway

Pulseway is an IT monitoring and management solution that enables users to monitor, manage and control all systems and servers from a smartphone, tablet or browser. For system administrators, Pulseway sends a notification, so they can see an issue and sort it in seconds.

Pulseway features:…

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StackState

StackState is an observability solution that helps enterprises decrease downtime and prevent outages by breaking down the silos between existing monitoring tools and tracking changes in dependencies, relationships, and configuration over time. The system relates these changes to…

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Nagios XI

Nagios XI is an Enterprise Server and Network Monitoring Software, built on Nagios Core and designed to comprehensive application, service, and network monitoring in a central solution.

Nagios XI is available in two different editions: Standard Edition and an Enterprise Edition. The Enterprise Edition provides users with additional functionality and includes features that are designed to aid in large-scale configuration, forecasting, and scheduled reporting. Each li…

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IBM z/OS Workload Interaction Navigator

IBM z/OS Workload Interaction Navigator helps to master complex z/OS workloads in the high utilization shared mainframe environment. It provides a single interface to analyze, temporally correlate, visualize and inspect anomalous activities across the z/OS software stack with much context rich z/OS and middleware data. Thr…

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Zabbix

Zabbix is an open-source network performance monitoring software. It includes prebuilt official and community-developed templates for integrating with networks, applications, and endpoints, and can automate some monitoring processes.

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Logz.io

Logz.io in Boston offers their enterprise-grade log analytics application, oriented towards providing data security and eliminating the need for capacity management.

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Outlyer
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Outlyer is a cloud infrastructure monitoring tool designed for customization. No matter how complex or bespoke your environment, Developers and Operat…

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ManageEngine Exchange Reporter Plus

ManageEngine's Exchange Reporter Plus is a web-based tool for managing Exchange Server, Exchange Online, and Skype for Business from a single platform.

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NetApp Cloud Insights

NetApp Cloud Insights is an infrastructure monitoring tool that gives users visibility into their complete infrastructure. With Cloud Insights, users can monitor, troubleshoot and optimize all resources including public clouds and private data centers.

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Pandora FMS

Pandora FMS is a flexible monitoring solution. It is presented as ideal for medium and big-…

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What is IT Infrastructure Monitoring Software?

IT infrastructure monitoring tools enable organizations to identify and resolve IT infrastructure problems before they can adversely affect critical business processes. They give insight into the status of physical, virtual, and cloud systems and help ensure availability and performance. In addition to monitoring the entire infrastructure and business processes, they can also help with planning for upgrades before outdated systems begin to cause failures and respond to issues as soon as problems become evident. They can also help ensure that any necessary outages have minimal impact on users.

Infrastructure management covers the sub-categories of systems management, network management and storage management and, although these systems have traditionally been on-premise, increasingly they are moving to the cloud.

IT Infrastructure Monitoring Features & Capabilities

  • Automated Device Discovery
  • Topology Mapping
  • Alerts
  • Customizable Reports
  • Multi System Monitoring
  • Performance Analysis
  • Dashboards and Visualization
  • Usage Monitoring

IT Infrastructure Monitoring Comparison

One of the major factors to consider when choosing an IT infrastructure monitoring solution is what your feature needs are, and what features are included in the options you are considering. This may seem obvious, but IT infrastructure monitoring tools are somewhat unique in that they often offer a variety of differing features. Since IT infrastructure Monitoring is a subsection of observability platforms, many observability tools also include log management or APM features. You should determine what your feature needs are to inform your decision on what IT Infrastructure monitoring solution to go with.

IT Infrastructure Monitoring Pricing

Most IT infrastructure monitoring solutions are cloud based as a service tools. As such businesses should expect to pay a monthly subscription fee, with rates varying depending on what features are included in the service.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What businesses benefit most from an IT infrastructure monitoring solution?

Businesses benefit more from IT Infrastructure monitoring the more complex their infrastructure is. For businesses with a variety of systems, all of which need constant monitoring, and IT infrastructure monitoring tool is essential. If you only have a few less complicated systems you may be able to do without.

What are the best IT infrastructure monitoring tools?

The top rated IT Infrastructure monitoring tools are as follows:

  1. Spiceworks Help Desk
  2. ConnectWise Automate
  3. ScienceLogic SL1

How is IT Infrastructure Monitoring different from observability?

Most observability tools offer IT Infrastructure monitoring as a feature, while many IT infrastructure monitoring tools are specific to IT infrastructure monitoring. Which one is right for you just depends on whether you need the broader suite of features an observability platform provides or not.

What do IT Infrastructure Monitoring Tools do?

IT Infrastructure Monitoring Tools (ITIM) capture, record, and analyze information about cloud and data center infrastructure performance in real-time. This information gives businesses the opportunity to promptly address issues before they can adversely affect their customers and operations. These tools track the availability, performance, and resource utilization of servers, networks, and storage.

What are the benefits of using IT Infrastructure Monitoring Tools?

The real-time monitoring provided minimizes downtime and helps prevent outages. This preserves customer satisfaction, maintains employee productivity, protects the organization’s reputation, and avoids the high costs and revenue losses associated with outages occurring in mission-critical systems. Trend information and analytics offer guidance for future upgrades and provide input into IT budget planning.