Performance and availability monitoring are essential for ensuring the health of the enterprise's mission-critical applications. But as technology has quickly evolved, some of yesterday's monitoring best practices are no longer as valid. Today's complex, distributed applications are leading companies to revaluate their beliefs about monitoring and to add new monitoring best practices to their strategies.

This white paper will examine 10 common misunderstandings about monitoring and offer suggestions for implementing complete, end-user monitoring strategies that can adapt to today's more complex computing environments.