Artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps), although the new kid on the DevOps block, is here to stay. It’s the future of DevOps and the future is here with us now. AIOps is just the infusion of artificial intelligence to the practice of DevOps. This practice has shown that it’s of great value to a lot of software development firms. Firms that have already implemented AIOps have recorded a massive boost in overall IT productivity.

The brutal reality is that ineffective monitoring invites trouble. Monitoring is your infrastructure’s eyes and ears. Ineffective monitoring is like driving with a wrong glasses prescription: you can’t see clearly, so it’s hard avoid current and future hazards.

The world and technology keep evolving. Over time, applications with functions ranging from buying and selling online to holding meetings to keeping up with friends and family have progressed. Now, we are able to automate actions that used to be manual or at least perform them in the most efficient way possible. This automation is made possible through the use of our applications. Now imagine one of these applications stops working for just 10 minutes.

Around 30 years ago, a server was usually a standalone PC or mainframe that provided only one service. Think of a dedicated mainframe for emails, for instance. Things evolved from this to single standalone hardware that provides multiple services (email, http, ftp combined, for example) through virtual machines that can host multiple operating systems running dozens of services, and up to today, where servers are software defined and can run on anything from your washing machine to a drone.

There’s no doubt that the software development and engineering industry has become one of the fastest evolving industries in the world. This greatly affects the way things are done within the industry. The rapid change within the software industry can be said to be in an exponential form. These changes are evolving so quickly that you can measure and track them within daily timelines as compared to the growth of other industries.

IT infrastructure is the backbone of any IT organization. An IT infrastructure comprises multiple components such as hardware assets, networks, applications, etc. And for an IT organization to function smoothly, it is important for all these components to function properly—autonomously as well as with each other. But how do we know if our IT infrastructure and its components are functioning properly? Through IT infrastructure monitoring.