Microsoft System Center Global Service Monitor

Achieve a 360-degree view of the health of web applications by extending application monitoring capabilities beyond your organization's network boundary.

Monitor application performance from points of presence around the world

With the growth of Software-as-a-Service and web applications, existing techniques fall short in monitoring and identifying external factors that can negatively impact these applications. System Center Global Service Monitor is a cloud service that extends the application monitoring capabilities in System Center 2012 beyond your organization's network boundary. Global Service Monitor uses Microsoft Azure points of presence to help give you a true reflection of an end-users' experience of a web application.

Benefits

System Center Global Service Monitor uses Microsoft Azure points of presence across the globe, monitored alongside existing data found within the familiar System Center 2012 Operations Manager console to report on availability, performance, and function of web applications.

• Reports on availability, performance, and function of web applications by scheduling and executing synthetic transactions from Microsoft Azure points of presence
• Enables you to test your applications where your customers are
• Integrates with your existing System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager environment
• Helps unify tooling and processes, integrating with Microsoft Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server to better align operations and development roles

Capabilities

Availability

Understand the availability of your external facing services regardless of where they are hosted with comprehensive "outside-in" monitoring and deep application insight.

Service level agreements

Accurately measure and adhere to your SLA or the SLA provided by an external provider. Each SLA can be added or configured either through Operation Manger or Visual Studio Web Tests.

Integration

Integrate seamlessly with your existing Operations Manager environment. View reports, alerts and track problems using advanced Application Monitoring Performance capabilities.

Efficiency

GSM is managed by Microsoft. Take advantage of multiple locations around the world to deploy your monitoring as part of your Software Assurance benefit.

Extend SCOM infrastructure to the cloud

Test your applications from where your customers are. Utilize your web tests to validate that applications are functioning correctly, quickly reporting health, reliability and availability back into SCOM.