Data Visualization

When you get an alert from your monitoring system, the first question you ask is almost always, “How serious is this?” It’s a good question, since false positive messages are a fact of life in monitoring. How do you tell if an alert is serious? Sometimes the alert message will tell you in itself, but more often it’s something like “server as-998b is DOWN”, without a lot of contextual information.

With GroundWork, you can instantly see the context of the alarm in several ways. The Seurat view tells you how many hosts are also down, and how many are up, but with some sort of trouble brewing…

The Event console lets you watch the stream of events in real time, and handle them as they come in, one at a time, or one hundred at a time…

Views let you see the alert on a map, in geographic or functional contexts. Where is that host anyway?…

Graphs show you the history. When did the trouble start?

Reports tell you if this is a common problem on this host. Is it always flaky at the end of a quarter?