At LogicMonitor, we talk to customers and prospects constantly. This enables us to observe trends in requests for new features and functionality. There are two major topics that prospects and customers have been raising recently.

We all want better results with less effort. Automation increases reliability and improves quality. These truths mean that every software company out there is trying to accomplish a similar end result for their customers. But let's face it - no single company is going to get there alone, it's too big a job for just one tool. Your best option is to use the best tools for their specific feature sets... but make sure they play well together, in order to get the results you want.

Understanding the context of an IT incident can greatly reduce the MTTR and enhance the ability to determine the root cause. In an IT environment, ‘context’ is used to refer to the subset of information necessary to troubleshoot and diagnose an incident, or event. For some scenarios, the context may be the downstream dependencies after a high availability pair of firewalls goes offline, and in others, it may be the datastore in contention from multiple VMs.