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    September 16, 2025

    Observability and IT Monitoring Governance: Establishing Order (Part 3 of 4)

    How DX UIM Delivers Effective Monitoring Governance

    3 min read

    Key Takeaways
    • Find out how DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM) supports the establishment of strong monitoring governance.
    • See how DX UIM offers the capabilities needed to bring order and control to your monitoring landscape.
    • Establish a framework to manage monitoring configurations, track alarm policies, and gain insights into overall monitoring health.

    In our previous posts, we explored why robust IT monitoring governance is no longer a luxury but a strategic imperative. We highlighted how a disciplined framework prevents blind spots, reduces risk, and ensures the reliability and scalability of your critical business applications. But how do you translate these principles into practical, actionable governance within your IT environment? This is where powerful tools like DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM) come into play, offering the capabilities needed to bring order and control to your monitoring landscape.

    The challenge for many organizations isn't a lack of monitoring data, but rather an overwhelming deluge of data, which often lacks context and is poorly managed. This leads to the alarm noise and fire-fighting organizations strive to eliminate. DX UIM directly addresses these pain points with features that underpin effective monitoring governance. With the solution, teams can move from reactive responses to proactive management.

    A cornerstone of sound governance is the ability to maintain clear visibility and control over your monitoring policies and configurations. DX UIM provides a centralized approach to managing these aspects, ensuring consistency and adherence to established best practices across your diverse IT estate. This includes the ability to track alarm policies and configurations across different device groups or categories. You can define policies according to your organizational needs, from critical application infrastructure to systems, storage, and more. This granular control is essential for preventing redundant alerts and ensuring that your teams are focused on what truly matters.

    Furthermore, the Monitoring Governance Report (MGR), available in DX UIM 23.4 CU3 and higher, is a powerful tool to achieve this clarity. This report gives you a consolidated view of your monitoring landscape, allowing you to examine current alarm policies with an eye on reducing unnecessary noise and optimizing configurations. It helps in validating that your monitoring efforts are aligned with business objectives and that critical gaps are being identified and addressed.

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    Imagine a scenario in which new critical business applications are deployed. Without proper governance, the monitoring of these new assets can become an ad-hoc process, potentially leading to overlooked issues or excessive, irrelevant alerts. DX UIM helps you define and maintain your monitoring scope, ensuring that all relevant applications, systems, and areas are proactively monitored. This includes leveraging historical incidents or existing ticket bases to identify target areas that require immediate attention.

    In essence, DX UIM empowers organizations to create a more efficient and effective monitoring environment. It provides the framework to manage and administer your monitoring configurations, track alarm policies, and gain insights into your environment’s overall monitoring health. By moving towards a more structured and governed approach with DX UIM, you lay the groundwork for optimizing your monitoring strategy.

    This disciplined approach sets the stage perfectly for our final post in this series, where we will delve deeper into three specific cornerstones of effective monitoring: baselining, KPIs, and thresholding. These are the very elements that transform raw data into actionable intelligence and enable truly proactive IT management. In part four, we will share more real-world examples and show how DX UIM helps deliver a complete toolkit to help you get the most out of your monitoring governance infrastructure. 

     

    Ravishu Arora

    Ravishu Arora is a Principal Product Manager at Broadcom Software leading our infrastructure monitoring solutions. He has nearly 20 years of experience working on enterprise products for some of the largest names across industries and is known for being a customer experience champion in the organization.

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