Monitoring in any system can be a tough game. The data from monitoring systems provides the administrator with a huge amount of data to digest. In order to make use of that information for proactive management, there's a massive level of analysis required. If your monitoring system alerts you that one virtual server has a high memory use condition, how can you correlate that information with its effect on the other systems in your virtualization environment?

What you need are tools that add intelligence to that monitoring data, tools that crunch that incredible amount of data, correlate it with data from other systems in the environment, and ultimately provide you with actionable information.

In this podcast, I interview Bala Murugan of eG Innovations. This company specializes in providing that intelligence to all the layers of IT. Here, we'll talk about the problems of managing monitoring information in virtualization environments and the tools that can turn this raw data into useful, actionable results.