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