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Real-time monitoring and observability with ITRS Geneos
Understanding real-time monitoring Copied
Real-time monitoring is the continuous observation of systems, applications, and services as events unfold. You’re not looking at yesterday’s footage or a delayed snapshot; you’re seeing what’s happening right now. The concept of real-time monitoring is essential across industries to ensure systems perform reliably and securely.
Real-time monitoring in business and technology instantly spots outages, slow performance, or other issues. This immediate information lets teams fix problems quickly, preventing delays. For example, if a key server slows, teams can detect and respond before user disruption.
From prevention to optimization Copied
Beyond just fixing problems, real-time monitoring helps prevent them. It allows you to avoid outages and performance issues before they impact your users. This proactive method improves customer experience by offering ongoing understanding of how customers interact with your services. By examining patterns in user and system activity, organizations can identify areas of difficulty and improve their offerings.
Additionally, real-time application monitoring supports Root Cause Analysis (RCA). When something fails, thorough analysis after the event helps determine why. This not only resolves the immediate issue but also helps prevent similar issues from happening again.
Combined with AI-powered analytics, real-time monitoring enables proactive decision-making and supports continuous innovation.
Smart planning and compliance Copied
Real-time insights enable better capacity optimization. Organizations gain the ability to track immediate usage and performance, leading to smarter choices in capacity planning, cost management, and deployment architecture. Moreover, real-time monitoring significantly enhances security and compliance by allowing organizations to quickly detect unauthorized access, and consistently meet corporate, industry, and governmental requirements.
Real-time insights are also critical for capacity optimization. By tracking usage trends and performance demands as they happen, organizations can make smarter decisions about capacity planning, cost management, and deployment architecture. Finally, security and compliance is another essential area where real-time monitoring plays a key role. It allows organizations to prevent intrusions, detect unauthorized access attempts, and ensure systems stay compliant with corporate policies, industry standards, and government regulations.
Real-time monitoring is now a mission-critical requirement in a world defined by digital disruption, market volatility, and constant customer demands.
Personas for real-time application monitoring users Copied
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Operations Manager at an investment bank | Ensures zero downtime for trading platforms and banking applications and requires real-time alerts to prevent transaction delays. |
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DevOps Engineer at a cloud-based company | Monitors applications across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) and must maintain SLAs for uptime and performance. |
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Platform Engineer at a Stock Exchange | Real-time tracking of trade execution speed and latency issues, detects anomalies in server performance to avoid financial losses, and monitors middleware and databases to ensure fast data retrieval. |
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Infrastructure Manager at a retail bank | Detects and prevents issues before they affect mobile banking apps and requires scalability to monitor thousands of servers. |
Next-gen observability Copied
Traditional IT monitoring solutions often fall short in today’s dynamic IT environments. Next-gen observability extends beyond traditional monitoring by offering deep, end-to-end visibility across an organization’s full-stack infrastructure. This enables operations teams to detect, diagnose, and resolve issues before they impact business operations.
Key benefits of next-gen observability:
- Gain real-time insights across all layers of the IT stack, from applications and databases to cloud environments.
- Leverage AI-powered anomaly detection to anticipate issues before they escalate.
- Implement smart automation to reduce response time and streamline .
- Adapt to cloud, hybrid, and on-premise environments without performance degradation.
Introducing ITRS Geneos, a next-gen observability solution designed for sophisticated environments that demand always-on operations, rapid issue detection, and seamless end-to-end visibility.
Geneos for application monitoring and observability Copied
ITRS Geneos is a solution designed for real-time application monitoring across full-stack IT environments. With a single pane of glass view, teams gain complete situational awareness, enabling faster root-cause analysis, and coordinated incident response.
Get a quick overview and learn how Geneos can benefit you in this video:
End-to-end visibility Copied
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Monitor everything in a single tool—from legacy systems to modern technologies like cloud services, databases, containers, and middleware.
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Create customized dashboards with the ITRS Analytics Web Console and Active Console, displaying relevant data for comprehensive system status overviews.
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Eliminate blind spots and siloed views to improve incident response and system performance.
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Collate metrics, logs, and events at scale from across AWS, Azure, multi-cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments for full visibility of real-time performance.
Market data integrity Copied
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Monitor the quality and integrity of global market data feeds with integration for ICE Data Services, Bloomberg, and other providers.
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Used by Hedge Funds, Investment Banks, Exchanges, and Retail Banks for seamless business transaction monitoring.
High-performance, low-latency monitoring Copied
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Utilize threshold-based alerting functionality to effortlessly track and monitor the performance and availability relative to your Kubernetes SLOs/SLAs, ensuring adherence to your defined benchmarks.
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Get comprehensive health and performance metrics for nodes, pods, and containers, allowing you to make informed decisions about scaling and optimization.
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Pods are being created, scaled, and terminated frequently. Unlike ITRS, traditional monitoring tools struggle to keep up with these rapid changes, leading to gaps in monitoring data and blind spots.
Scalability and real-time alerting Copied
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Supports deployments from 100 to 100,000+ servers with a horizontally scalable solution.
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Provides true real-time monitoring and alerting to reduce downtime risks.
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ITRS Geneos offers 100+ preconfigured plugins and integrations, simplifying cross-technology integration.
Start your journey with Geneos Copied
With ITRS Geneos, organizations gain a next-gen observability platform that delivers more than monitoring, it delivers confidence. Organizations can safeguard their IT operations, prevent downtime, ensure compliance, and optimize system performance across their full-stack infrastructure.
For enterprises looking to stay ahead in the digital age, investing in real-time monitoring and observability solutions is the key to operational resilience and long-term success.
Want to know more about its capabilities and features? Check out these resources: