Infrastructure monitoring is the process of collecting and analyzing data from IT infrastructure, systems, and processes, and using that data to improve business outcomes and drive value across the whole organization.

It is used to collect health and performance data from servers, virtual machines, containers, databases, and other backend components in a tech stack. Engineers can use an infrastructure monitoring tool to visualize, analyze, and alert on metrics and understand whether a backend issue is impacting users.

There are many infrastructure monitoring tools available in the market. Here are some of them:

1. Datadog: Datadog is a cloud-based infrastructure monitoring tool that provides real-time visibility into the performance of your applications and infrastructure .
2. New Relic: New Relic is a cloud-based infrastructure monitoring tool that provides real-time visibility into the performance of your applications and infrastructure .
3. Dynatrace: Dynatrace is an AI-powered infrastructure monitoring tool that provides real-time visibility into the performance of your applications and infrastructure .

Here are some best practices for infrastructure monitoring for vulnerabilities:

1. Choose the right monitoring solution that can gather relevant metrics and provide access to the right dashboards.
2. Configure automated alerts/notifications and set the threshold for notifications.
3. Mark notification priorities and test how monitoring is working.
4. Create a response action plan.

In addition to these best practices, you can also adopt continuous remediation, deploy compensating controls, and build a vulnerability management program.

Automated infrastructure monitoring

Contynuiti brings together all of the tools and processes for infrastructure monitoring together into a single platform. Schedule a demonstration by sending a request here.