The Cost to Manage a Metric

tyler.jewell@quest.com — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:13:00 GMT

In my last post, we started to talk about a performance management roadmap. In this post, I’d like to share some of my thoughts around the nature of the APM problem that we are trying to solve and the economic implications of that.

We’ve been working around this theory that the goal of APM is to identify the root cause of any issue whether it has happened, is happening, or will happen, and then take protective measures to prevent it from repeating. One approach to solving this problem says that it’s key to have every possible metric generated by an environment collected and kept historically. While this is impossible from a number of dimensions, let’s exercise this philosophy a bit. Disr

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The Cost to Manage a Metric