What Is Continuous Monitoring?
Search IT Operations, Thursday, March 20th, 2025
Continuous monitoring constantly observes the performance and operation of IT assets to help reduce risk and improve uptime instead of taking a point-in-time snapshot of a device, network or application.
The continuous monitoring component involves not only awareness of activities in a device, network or application but also requires ongoing real-time assessment and analysis of the monitored systems. Modern continuous monitoring processes increasingly incorporate machine learning algorithms to detect anomalies, predict potential failures and reduce false positives by understanding standard behavior patterns across complex systems.
The practice of continuous monitoring can help an organization to identify issues quickly, helping to minimize risks and potential downtime.
Continuous monitoring is critical to cybersecurity operations and overall user and application experience.