A timely post by Tyler over at Quest Software indicates that they understand and will be talking about the problems of managing complex applications and the resulting impact on the organization and costs. It sounds like they’re thinking about how to address some of the issues I was pondering related to the proactive/predictive technology at the edge within the Foglight product.
Quest Software probably has the deepest knowledge base of what “should” be monitored according to industry recognized SME based best practices. One of the big reasons my former company invested in the Foglight technology was the expert advice embedded within their resource monitoring agents and associated alerts, metrics and events. If anyone can figure out the best way to only managed what’s necessary from an SME perspective, from a BSM, service or application management perspective, I’m sure they can.
Shall be interesting to see what Tyler and the Foglight crew cook up.