Updated: July 15, 2020 (October 24, 2016)
Analyst ReportHybrid Monitoring of On-Premises and Cloud Data Centers
Data-center monitoring is important for limiting system downtime, planning capacity, and ensuring security, whether on-premises or in a hosted facility. Microsoft’s monitoring offerings are in flux, with three primary tools for monitoring on-premises and cloud resources: the long-established on-premises System Center Operations Manager (OM), the Microsoft-hosted Log Analytics service, and the new Azure Monitor service. Both OM and Log Analytics can help monitor both the data center and the cloud, while Azure Monitor is for Azure resources only. They have differing capabilities but can be combined, to extend on-premises monitoring without adding infrastructure. Microsoft’s emphasis is clearly toward the cloud-based tools, which encourage hybrid monitoring scenarios.
Infrastructure: On-Premises or Cloud Services?
Operations Manager, Log Analytics, and Azure Monitor provide monitoring services for Microsoft and other resources. However, the system architectures differ significantly, and that could be important for customers who need to monitor on-premises servers, Azure or other cloud-hosted resources, or a combination of both (hybrid data centers). These monitoring tools manage devices already in operation and are not designed to deploy software or modify computer configurations.
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