SaaS vs. On-Premise Monitoring: Know the Difference

The cloud model continues to evolve as more organizations place their infrastructure into a cloud-based solution. Through all of this – there is still the very real need to monitor and proactively maintain a data center and cloud infrastructure. Because more business are directly leveraging cloud resources, it’s more important than ever to truly understand what is happening in your cloud environment.

With that in mind – how do you know what the right option would be? There are on-premises monitoring solutions and ones totally based in the cloud. Still, the “SaaS vs. on-premises” equation is different for every technology. There are some solution types where a SaaS approach has special benefits that are not obvious at first. In this whitepaper from LogicMonitor, we take a look at why network and server monitoring can be particularly suited to a cloud-based model. Furthermore, this paper examines 9 key points around why a cloud-based monitoring solution can be the right fit. This includes:

As your organization continues to grow, you’ll have to look at and evaluate new types of monitoring and management solutions. The data center continues to evolve as more cloud connections influence how resources are utilized. Controlling resources allocation and overall infrastructure performance heavily revolves around the proactive nature of a good monitoring solution.

Remember, this also means having optimal security. One of the great things about a SaaS monitoring solution is that all data collection happens from a lightweight collector which resides behind your firewall. The collector makes outgoing connections only over SSL, and accepts no connections from the network. Monitoring servers reside in locked cabinets inside of SSAE 16 SOC1 Type 2 data centers, manned 24x7x365, with ingress and egress secured with electronic keycards and biometric hand scans, high resolution motion-sensitive video surveillance, fully redundant power and HVAC, VESDA Fire-threat detection and suppression. Strong internal application controls protect data even from "root" users.

Download this white paper today to learn how a SaaS monitoring solution can create true security, great resiliency, and complete vision into your environment. With all of this in mind – In many cases, utilizing a cloud-based SaaS monitoring environment can truly create a robust data center which will better support business operations.