Getting infrastructure monitoring right requires bringing together your organization’s IT infrastructure logs and system metrics to track the health of your infrastructure. By leveraging your logs and metrics, an infrastructure monitoring solution should help you isolate and fix issues before they become problems.
While metrics give you a point-in-time understanding of what is happening with your systems, logs can help you understand why an issue may be occurring. These log files contain critical information that can help you detect operational issues and capacity problems, identify possible security breaches or malicious attacks and uncover new areas of business opportunity.