Time-series monitoring tools give high-resolution view of IT

DevOps shops use time-series monitoring tools to glean a nuanced, historical view of IT infrastructure that improves troubleshooting, autoscaling and capacity forecasting. Time-series monitoring tools are based on time-series databases, which are optimized for time-stamped data collected continuously or at fine-grained intervals. Since they store fine-grained data for a longer term than many metrics-based traditional monitoring tools, they can be used to compare long-term trends in DevOps monitoring data and to bring together data from more diverse sources than the IT infrastructure alone to link developer and business activity with the behavior of the infrastructure.