This article is based on a market research summary originally published by Orbis Research and syndicated via askindustrynews.com on June 24, 2019. Specific market-size figures were redacted in the source document and are not reproduced here.
What Is IT Infrastructure Monitoring?
IT infrastructure monitoring is the practice of continuously observing the health, performance, and availability of an organization’s underlying technology stack — servers, networks, storage, cloud workloads, and the services that run on them. Effective monitoring gives operations and DevOps teams early warning of degradation, enables capacity planning, and provides the data needed to meet SLA commitments.
As enterprises accelerate cloud adoption and distributed architectures, the monitoring market has grown accordingly. Organizations must now track on-premises hardware alongside containerized workloads, SaaS applications, and hybrid cloud environments, driving demand for unified monitoring platforms.
Market Overview
According to the Orbis Research report Global IT Infrastructure Monitoring Market (2019), the market was expected to sustain consistent growth through 2023. The research covers qualitative and quantitative dimensions including market size, competitive dynamics, regional performance, deployment types, and end-user verticals. Note that the specific revenue figures cited in the original report were placeholder values (listed as “XXX million $”) and are therefore not reproduced here.
Key Vendors and Platforms
The report identifies the following companies as notable participants in the global IT infrastructure monitoring space:
- CA Technologies – enterprise IT management and AIOps tooling
- Splunk – log aggregation, search, and operational intelligence
- Nagios Enterprises – open-source-rooted network and host monitoring
- AppDynamics – application performance monitoring with infrastructure correlation
- ScienceLogic – hybrid IT monitoring and service visibility
- Spiceworks – SMB-focused network monitoring and IT help desk
- Datadog – cloud-native observability covering metrics, traces, and logs
- SevOne – network performance management at scale
- PagerDuty – incident response and alerting platform
- Zabbix – open-source enterprise monitoring for networks and servers
This list reflects the competitive landscape as of mid-2019. The market has continued to evolve — several vendors have been acquired or merged since the report was published (for example, CA Technologies was acquired by Broadcom in 2018).
Deployment Models
The market is segmented by how monitoring software is deployed:
- On-premises – software installed and managed within the organization’s own data center. Preferred where data sovereignty, compliance, or air-gapped environments are a concern.
- Cloud / hosted (SaaS) – monitoring delivered as a managed service. Lower operational overhead and faster time-to-value, but requires sending telemetry data to a third-party platform.
By 2019, cloud-hosted monitoring was gaining significant traction as teams adopted DevOps practices and infrastructure-as-code, making agent-based SaaS tools easier to deploy at scale.
Industry Verticals
Demand for infrastructure monitoring tools is not uniform across industries. The report segments end-user adoption across the following verticals:
- IT and Telecommunications – highest adoption; monitoring is foundational to service delivery
- Healthcare – driven by uptime requirements for electronic health records and medical devices
- Transportation and Logistics – real-time visibility into fleet management and supply-chain systems
- Energy and Utilities – SCADA and operational technology (OT) monitoring needs
- Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) – regulatory compliance and zero-tolerance for transaction-system downtime
Regional Segmentation
The research covers performance across major global regions:
- North America (United States, Canada) – typically the largest revenue contributor due to early cloud adoption and mature DevOps practices
- Europe (Germany, UK, France, Italy) – strong growth driven by digital transformation initiatives and GDPR compliance requirements
- Asia-Pacific (China, Japan, India, South Korea) – fastest-growing region as enterprises modernize legacy infrastructure
- South America
- Middle East, Africa, and GCC
Report Structure and Pricing
The Orbis Research report was structured as modular sections purchasable individually or as a bundle. The sections covered definitions and methodology, detailed manufacturer profiles, regional analysis, product-type segmentation, industry verticals, channel analysis (direct sales vs. distributor), trend forecasting through 2023, cost structure, and downstream consumer analysis.
For current pricing and availability, contact Orbis Research directly, as report editions and pricing change over time.
Why Infrastructure Monitoring Still Matters
Regardless of market report specifics, the underlying demand drivers for infrastructure monitoring remain strong:
- Complexity growth – microservices, Kubernetes, and multi-cloud architectures generate vastly more telemetry than traditional monolithic apps.
- SRE adoption – site reliability engineering formalizes error budgets and SLOs, both of which require accurate, real-time monitoring data.
- Cost optimization – monitoring unused or over-provisioned cloud resources directly reduces infrastructure spend.
- Security posture – anomaly detection in infrastructure metrics is an early indicator of breaches or misconfigurations.
Teams evaluating monitoring platforms should assess coverage (metrics, logs, traces, events), integration depth with their existing stack, pricing model at scale, and the maturity of alerting and on-call workflow features.
Source: Orbis Research, “Global IT Infrastructure Monitoring Market,” syndicated via askindustrynews.com, June 24, 2019.