For IT directors, administrators and decision makers alike, monitoring your company’s network can oftentimes be a tedious, time consuming or complex task; however, it’s a necessary one to ensure that you are effectively managing your large IT infrastructures and nipping issues in the bud before they become truly problematic. Wouldn’t it be nice to know what’s wrong before the phone even rings? This is what efficient and scalable application monitoring can do to maintain high availability while providing performance data.

While application monitoring is touted for its ability to automatically identify the systems on a network and the applications they are running to give admins actionable insight into performance and a clear view of network activity, sometimes, this can be a bit of a balancing act. Whether you’re a beginner or expert in the field, it’s never a bad time to educate yourself on what powerful application monitoring can do for you.

This is where GroundWork comes into play. As the leading open platform for enterprise-class network, application and cloud monitoring, GroundWork’s approach offers its customers flexible, diverse, open source and proprietary software technologies all under one unified Web services portal and at a fraction of the cost when compared to traditional solutions. Allowing its users to enjoy the advantages of open source while at the same time preserving their existing investments in legacy IT management tools, GroundWork has effortlessly established itself as a key player in the application monitoring space.

Later this month, the company will be holding an exclusive, informational webinar where registrants will be able to discuss these trade-offs, as well as share lessons from customers on how to make it work. Additional topics that will be covered at this webinar will include:

• Inside-out and outside-in methods
• Common mistakes first-timers make
• The role of the synthetic transaction

The webinar, titled “Know What’s Wrong Before the Phone Rings: Application Monitoring for Real World Environments,” will be held on Friday, March 22, 2013 at 11 AM ET/8 AM PT, so there’s still plenty of time for you to sign up! Click here to register today.