Continuous monitoring: why does it matter?

The secret to anticipate that daily performance problems will scale and become critical issues is to observe them continuously.

New customers always ask:

Why should I keep monitoring my databases, even though the main performance issues were just solved?

The answer for that question is pretty simple: applications are similar to "live organisms", everyday something new happens and the app will have to change its behavior in order to adapt to the new scenario.

It could be a new software release, the increasing number of users, a new application sharing the same database, etc. There is a long list of possible reasons for that and once the customer understands it, they come to the conclusion that is better and cheaper to keep the monitoring.

Applications are similar to live organisms. Their behavior changes accordingly to the environment.

Peace of mind

The continuous monitoring gives IT teams the peace of mind that they will be warned if something unexpected happens and hurts the database’s performance. Having this information in real time enables the organizations to know exactly what happened, when and the root causes.

In addition, it allows teams to have a familiarity with the behavior of the application and what to expect from it in a particular situation. When something new affects the behavior of the application, everyone in the team receive a real time notification. This way they will be ready and in a good position to fix or optimize the environment.

Whit that said, I’ll leave you with a final thought.

Instead of searching for the roots of your performance issues after they have already happened, why don't you anticipate them with a continuous monitoring software? It's also important that this monitoring tool doesn't become responsible for degrading the performance. In this case, an agentless tool- like Nazar- would be the best approach.