Availability monitoring is quite similar to health status monitoring, which we just discussed. However, the subtle difference is that in availability monitoring, the focus is on the availability of systems rather than a snapshot of the health at that point in time.
Availability of systems is dependent on various factors, such as the overall nature and domain of the application, services, and service dependencies as well as infrastructure or environment. The availability monitoring system captures low-level data points related to these factors and represents them so as to make a business-level feature available. Many times, availability monitoring parameters are used to track business metrics and service level agreements ...
