Monitoring as a Service: The What & Why

MaaS is one of the many cloud computing delivery models under anything as a service (XaaS). It blends both cloud computing and traditional on-premise IT infrastructure monitoring solutions.

Monitoring as a Service is focused on the online state monitoring of applications, storage instances, network traffic, etc., and helps detect malfunctioning much quicker.

It helps you –
a. Manage capacity using multiple free and paid tools.
b. Adjust the threshold value of your infrastructure like disk capacity, CPU, services, etc.
c. Set alerts for business applications and their associated services.

In this blog post, you’ll learn about the features of MaaS, its advantages, and more. So, let’s get started!

Advantages of Monitoring as a Service

Cost-effective

MaaS helps you with zero maintenance overheads. You don’t need to invest in a network operations center and in-house IT support staff to run the monitoring desk. It also provides a ready-to-use monitoring tool to customers at low prices.

Enhanced Security

Monitoring services can easily detect what caused downtime, network errors, or a malignant attack on the software/system. In an effort to keep your business safe, MaaS providers catch unwanted attempts to breach a company’s network.

Minimal IT Concerns

Monitoring providers not only help a business with constant network monitoring, but they also help them offload IT services. Managing IT concerns can cost you time and money and eventually distract the workforce from focusing on its objectives. MaaS enables an organization to transfer the entirety of such business aspects to a trusted safety network.

Increased Productivity

Since monitoring service providers keep a tab on the existing hardware and software, they can ascertain what’s degraded, inefficient, or not working as intended. MaaS Providers can also suggest what improvements can be made to upgrade the infrastructure, which can ultimately help enhance productivity.

Cloud-Ready

MaaS works well with cloud-based products such as SaaS, PaaS, and also provides an apt technology fit for monitoring these cloud offerings. This cloud awareness and readiness gives insights into resource usage and performance metrics that can be used for cloud infrastructure optimization.

When to Use Monitoring as a Service (MaaS)?

Monitoring as a Service (MaaS) can be beneficial for the following scenarios:

1. Price Conscious Customers: MaaS is a cost-effective model for small and medium enterprises. With this pricing model, there aren’t any heavy investments involved in capital expenditures (CAPEX) and operating expenditures (OPEX).

2. Cloud-Based SaaS and PaaS Add-on: MaaS is a perfect technology fit for monitoring cloud-based SaaS and PaaS offerings. Hence, it can also be used as an add-on product along with these.

3. Multi Tenant Monitoring Needs: MaaS provides a strong backend framework to monitor multi-tenant services. It can also assess their availability. Therefore, it is a solution for vendors with multi-tenant monitoring requirements of their hosted services.

4. A Mixture of Cloud & On-Premise Infrastructure: Monitoring as a Service is a great option for setting up a hybrid environment. While it is already cloud-based, it works well for deployments with a mix of on-premise and cloud infrastructure.

5. Distributed Infrastructure Assets: A framework where the IT infrastructure assets are distributed across different geographical locations, MaaS is a considerable choice. This is because the monitoring infrastructure is centralized in the cloud, which can monitor distributed infrastructure assets.

Wrapping Up

With this, we’ve come to understand MaaS and its diverse and flexible usage as a cloud-based solution to improve business productivity.

A great security solution based on cloud computing, MaaS can be a good fit for your business since it helps you detect threats early, update the security system, analyze vulnerabilities, and assist customers 24/7.

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