Continuous system-performance monitoring advantages
There are several advantages to continuously monitoring system performance.
Continuous system performance monitoring can do the following:
- Sometimes detect underlying problems before they have an adverse effect
- Detect problems that affect a user's productivity
- Collect data when a problem occurs for the first time
- Allow you to establish a baseline for comparison
Successful monitoring involves the following:
- Periodically obtaining performance-related information from the operating system
- Storing the information for future use in problem diagnosis
- Displaying the information for the benefit of the system administrator
- Detecting situations that require additional data collection or responding to directions from the system administrator to collect such data, or both
- Collecting and storing the necessary detail data
- Tracking changes made to the system and applications