GroundWork Monitor™ Enterprise

Smarter, Full Stack IT Monitoring

Unified enterprise-scale monitoring across your on-premise and cloud-environments. Get complete monitoring and analysis of all performance and operational data via a single pane of glass

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GroundWork Monitor Enterprise is a powerful IT monitoring software for physical, virtual, and cloud-based infrastructures. GroundWork can monitor your entire IT environment. If you use it, we can monitor it.

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What's New

Notifications Interface

We have enhanced our notifications interface—focusing on its ease of use and accessibility—while also streamlining the configuration of our advanced notification engine.

Telegraf Integration

We have ensured that migrating customers do not lose the ability to monitor syslog or SNMP traps by integrating with the powerful telegraf monitoring framework. This method is extremely configurable and easy to extend across large deployments by using TOML-based configurations.

Platform Stability

Enhancing the stability and security of the GroundWork monitor platform—updating and replacing components to stay ahead of vulnerabilities—is a primary theme of every release.

GroundWork Monitor™ Enterprise

IT Monitoring Software from Diamanti

When you’ve made the shift to cloud-native and Kubernetes creating a more involved, hybrid infrastructure—with systems in the cloud, virtualized in your data center, on bare metal all generating thousands if not millions of individual data points—you want a monitoring solution designed for that level of complexity with the latest AI and machine-learning capabilities.

That’s when you want GroundWork Monitor™ Enterprise from Diamanti

GroundWork Monitor delivers visibility into IT environment

 

GroundWork Monitor delivers complete visibility into your entire IT environment. No hunting around across different point solutions. Very simply, if it’s attached to your network—physical devices, virtualized data centers, public clouds, containerized apps—GroundWork can monitor it and bring the data (and the analysis of that data) altogether in a single pane of glass.

 

Simplifying your entire Digital Transformation Journey

Virtualization, microservices, containerization—these IT advances have led the way to significant operational improvements and economies of scale, but also to much greater complexity.

GroundWork is designed for the way IT environments operate today. Taking advantage of the latest open source and AI-based capabilities, GroundWork delivers deep, holistic monitoring that adapts and adjusts dynamically to your changing environment, allowing you to focus on business instead of tracking down problems and enhancing and simplifying your entire digital transformation journey.

Open Source Integration

Learn more about our top open source tools bundled with GroundWork Monitor.

Features

Applications

Wherever your apps publish data, you can gather it in GroundWork and track application health. Put all your apps key performance data in one place for tuning and troubleshooting.

Compute

Virtual and physical monitored servers are the beating heart of your whole business. Monitor every interconnected VM, server, container and more. Automatically deploy monitoring with each scaling event.

Network

With intelligent, unified monitoring that understands your network, you can find out about network issues before anyone else. Auto discovery and topology mapping can stifle alarm storms.

Storage

Poor storage I/O and capacity planning can bring an organization to its knees. GroundWork delivers the monitoring and analysis you need to stay on top of complex storage environments.

Discovery

Get a handle on your ever changing infrastructure environment with GroundWork’s Discovery monitoring tools that will intelligently assist your initial installation as well as automatically detect changes and adjust monitoring.

Cloud Hub

Whether your virtualization is on-premise, cloud, or a hybrid, GroundWork has you covered. Our CloudHub connector allows you to connect to the API of your virtualization products and import critical metrics into the GroundWork system with just a few clicks.

GDMA

Leverage your virtualization templates to automatically add monitoring when a new system is provisioned with GroundWork Distributed Monitoring Agent (GDMA). GDMA is a lightweight agent that can be added to just about any device type.

Performance Visualization

Identify choke-points and performance bottlenecks, both short-term and long-term. With integrated Grafana, GroundWork delivers powerful and flexible visualization so you can create and share time-series dashboards of all data or any monitored event.

Log Analysis

Event data from a monitoring system alerts you to abnormal behavior, but log data gives you actual root cause analysis. With GroundWork’s Log Bridge, you can combine both to give you the whole picture.

SLAs

Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are the backbone of IT management. The structuring of IT into service delivery and service management organizations under ITIL/ITSM has made the SLA a primary method of setting expectations for services. GroundWork’s SLA Management feature allows you to administer SLAs and measure your business service performance.

Networks

GroundWork Monitor discovers network assets automatically, so you can track them with GroundWork Desk whether you or your users were the ones to plug them in. Set policies in GroundWork Monitor to raise a ticket in GroundWork Desk when a traffic pattern you need to know about appears.

Servers

Comprehensive agentless or agent-based monitoring of servers is a core feature of GroundWork Monitor. Get the detailed data you need in your tickets.

Cloud Services

Moving to the cloud? Already there? Maybe two or three clouds? We have you covered with Cloud Hub connectors that can quickly scan your provider’s API for the metrics you need to run your business.

User Requests

When users need help, they tell the help desk. Track user requests alongside incidents, and you can keep your users happier when you solve the right problem at the root of their troubles.

Maintenance Ticketing

If you know you need to upgrade a system, rotate a certificate, or do any scheduled maintenance, your GroundWork Desk ticketing system can help you to set and track downtime on your IT resources.

Redundancy

GroundWork Open Source provides a simple yet robust solution for monitoring redundancy. Our standby notification server provides a full set of GroundWork Monitor functions as a single-server installation or as a parent server if the parent fails or is taken offline for maintenance.

Configuration

A special instance of GroundWork Monitor is configured to mirror the primary server: Receives all state updates from the monitored customer systems IT. Monitors the Primary Parent Server.

Notifications

The primary server produces notifications and serves as the portal. If the primary parent fails, the standby server detects this failure and enters into notification failover mode.

Deployment

GroundWork Monitor has been containerized and secured making for a solution that is easily maintained, robust and portable.

Deploy Anywhere 

GroundWork servers can be deployed as instances in OpenStack, VMware, Amazon Web Services, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

Small Deployment

A minimal, single-server deployment of GroundWork Monitor can give visibility into the welfare of hundreds of servers in one or two locations. Typical deployments at this level involve running GroundWork Monitor in active polling mode using two-or three components such as Nagios, Cloud Hub, and NeDi.

Enterprise Scale Deployment

Enterprise-scale deployments are more varied in form and can involve several GroundWork servers in a parent-child configuration, or in distributed configurations. Large deployments frequently make use of software distribution and configuration automation tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet. Another feature of large deployments is the separation of components onto separate hosts for scaling purposes.

Benefits of GroundWork Monitor™

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Replace firefighting with intelligent response

Discover what it’s like to see metrics on resource utilization and event synchronicity all delivered in one place

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Tracking and analysis simplified

Get trends and comparisons delivered with near zero configuration

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Speed response to failures

Quickly get alerts when failures occur, and the clues you need to help fix them fast

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A completely unified view

Monitor every interconnected VM, server, container and more

GroundWork Use Cases

Take advantage of GroundWork to address monitoring and analysis across a range of use cases.

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Enterprise-Scale Monitoring

Monitor highly dynamic enterprise operations centers (NOC, SOC, etc.). Address the needs of teams/stakeholders with automated alerts.
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Security

Rely on GroundWork to capture and aggregate security alerts both from its own monitoring as well as security detections from other sources. 
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Kubernetes Monitoring

Get a single-pane-of-glass view into Kubernetes infrastructure objects, metrics, logs, and events. Drill down into specific namespace, workloads and pods. Take advantage of prebuilt dashboards and alerts.
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Hybrid Cloud Monitoring

Rely on GroundWork for full visibility across an entire hybrid infrastructure—on-premises, public, and private clouds.
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Managed Monitoring

MSPs can rely on GroundWork Monitor to provide unified IT monitoring to their customers as a managed service.

GW7 VS GW8 COMPARISON

CAPABILITY
GW7
GW8
DESCRIPTION
Showing Event Streams and Log Entries Event Console No Event Console Functionality now provided by the ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) stack
Showing Status of Monitored Infrastructure Status Viewer Status Summary Enhanced status summary with real-time updates and responsive graphing, plus such popular feature requests as top-problem displays
Showing Trend Analysis and Performance Data N/A Insights Dashboard New dashboard to reveal insights about infrastructure per- formance
Network Monitoring and Discovery Network Discovery Network Discovery New features include enhanced asset node management, packet capture, and wiring diagram management
Installation and Maintenance Linux binary installer Containerized New packaging for frequent and rapid updates with individual components now in Docker containers
Authentication and application framework JBoss/JOSSO Streamlined web application Faster UI response times with more easily customized and enhanced application integration
Development methodology Waterfall Continuous integration/ Continuous deployment (CI/CD) Modernized CI/CD methodology with Docker containers for faster feature development, fewer security patches and bug fixes, and no need to completely upgrade to obtain fixes
Graphing Dashboards Grafana/InfluxDB Grafana/InfluxDB More open-source panels, plugins and data sources for greater flexibility in the selection and graphing of metrics and better templating with more variables
Cloud Monitoring Cloud Hub Connectors Azure, AWS, Cloudera, Docker, Icinga 2, NeDi, NetApp, OpenStack, RHEV, VMware Previous connectors and the addition of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Allows GCP user to easily monitor the availability and performance of resources within the cloud
Customer Support Resources Atlassian Confluence, Jira Software (kb,cases) Atlassian Confluence, Jira Software, Jira Service Desk Easier, more responsive installation of the customer support portal

REPORTING ON MONITORING DATA

Download this white paper for an in-depth look at Groundwork Monitor including:

– What is GroundWork Monitor Enterprise

– Features and Capabilities

– Components

– Popular open-source integrations

– Deployment

– Use cases

Resources

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Kubernetes is key for insurance companies to accelerate growth

A recent 451 Research Voice of the Enterprise (VotE): DevOps study shows that primary benefits driving the usage of cloud-native technologies include efficiency of IT operation.

Move to the Hybrid Cloud with Diamanti’s Kubernetes Platform

This portable, open-source orchestrator provides a turnkey solution to containerized application deployment, scaling, and management across multiple clusters.

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Member of Cloud Native Computing Foundation