Private and Public Cloud Monitoring

Virtual and cloud-based systems are becoming common. Many applications are migrating fully or partially to cloud-based operation. Projects are underway, comparing the cost of hosting email, 3rd party, CRM and other solutions in the cloud, versus in-house.

Monitoring your infrastructure now means monitoring all your internal systems, applications, and networks, as well as the components that have gone virtual. The need has never been greater for a unified monitoring system. You need a system that can help you validate the charges levied by cloud vendors, compare the business efficiency of virtualized applications with in-house solutions, and track your whole infrastructure with a single console.

Virtual Monitoring Challenges

How do you keep up with monitoring in the cloud?

• Discovery and auto-configuration methods that worked in your data centers will have trouble dealing with the security restrictions imposed by wary cloud vendors.
• Cloud systems form and dissipate quicker than a tornado in Arkansas. Configuration is no longer set-and-forget: it must be dynamic, or it is useless.
• Cloud vendors offer point solutions, but only you really understand your applications, and what makes them tick.

Your monitoring must not only be dynamic, it has to be focused on actionable metrics. You need tools that understand this dynamic environment.

What is the Cloud Connector?

GroundWork Cloud Connector (a free download for Flex customers) extends the enterprise-class monitoring you have always had for in-house systems to the cloud, letting you leverage every adjustment you have made to your monitoring systems in the physical data center in the virtual world of cloud computing.

With dynamic discovery through the most popular public and private cloud APIs, the GroundWork Cloud Connector detects your virtual systems as they appear and disappear, and automatically adds them to the system, reconfiguring GroundWork Monitor Enterprise when a cloud system appears or vanishes.

Cloud systems appear alongside your in-house systems, with the business metrics you gather revealing the performance of your applications as they are deployed. You can prove the wisdom of migration with a single report.

You can even deploy the GroundWork Cloud Connector on a GroundWork Monitor Enterprise server in the cloud itself. Use the cloud connector to stay ahead of the cloud-adoption curve. Monitor your success.

See a video describing the Cloud Connector here.

Already a FLEX customer? Download the cloud connector here.