What’s the big deal about being an agentless monitoring solution? Well one our customers said it very well in a recent conversation I had with him. Simply put, you do not need to hire extra personnel to maintain agents for your monitoring solution itself! And you still get what you need.

I agree with this observation. Users buy the software so that they can reduce IT personnel too, in the first plac :-) Many of the big & expensive monitoring solutions insist on being agent based and that could be a big no-no for SMBs especially those who are not only cost conscious but also ‘number of people needed to maintain’ conscious too.

With more applications being built with management capabilities in mind, it is time Application Management vendors encourage an agentless world whereever it is possible. But this is definitely very hard for generationPrev who find it very hard to replace their existing solutions.

There is always the exception when you need an agent. Example to support older versions of software or when you solve some very specific problems. But from an end user perspective, an agentless world is the best !

Today’s Unrelated Note :-)
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