SaaS monitoring systems are architected to allow for seamless, unified monitoring of the entire IT ecosystem, regardless of whether it’s physical, virtual, or in the cloud. But the “SaaS versus on-premise” equation is different for every technology. There are some solution types where a SaaS approach has special benefits that are not obvious at first.

In this short paper we will look at why network and server monitoring is particularly suited to a cloud-based model, and how a SaaS monitoring solution can give companies higher reliability, better support, and of course, lower costs.