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Those applications of course are delivered across not only your internal network infrastructure, but the internet. If you are a larger enterprise, this WAN connectivity is likely to be over an SD-WAN overlay. There’s a lot to go wrong with all that, so when your users complain of poor application performance, where do you start? [![Managed Services Application Dependency Monitoring](https://blog.iptel.com.au/hs-fs/hubfs/Blogs/Managed%20Services%20-%20Application%20Dependency%20Monitoring/Managed%20Services%20Application%20Dependency%20Monitoring-still.jpg?width=737&height=395&name=Managed%20Services%20Application%20Dependency%20Monitoring-still.jpg)](https://info.iptel.com.au/managed-services) In this blog, we’re going to walk through the top 3 reasons why you would want to utilise Application Dependency Monitoring. Related reading - [D3 - Meraki Access](https://blog.iptel.com.au/managed-services-d3-meraki-access) - [D4 - Meraki SD-WAN](https://blog.iptel.com.au/managed-services-d4-meraki-sd-wan) - [D6 - Cisco Secure Access](https://blog.iptel.com.au/managed-services-d6-cisco-secure-access) - [Managed Services: Top 5 Benefits](https://blog.iptel.com.au/managed-services-top-5-benefits) - [Top 8 Secrets to Great Wi-Fi](https://info.iptel.com.au/top-8-wi-fi-secrets) - [Meraki Managed Service](https://blog.iptel.com.au/meraki-managed-service) --- ## What is Application Dependency Monitoring? [![IPTel Solutions - Cisco Preferred Partner](https://blog.iptel.com.au/hs-fs/hubfs/Website%20Images/Partner/cisco-preferred-partner-2026.jpg?width=242&height=242&name=cisco-preferred-partner-2026.jpg)](https://blog.iptel.com.au/cisco-powered-managed-services)Application Dependency Monitoring is all about monitoring the applications that matter most for your business. In doing so, we also monitor the underlying network infrastructure, so you can get alerted to any changes – or importantly, drifts from the normal baseline. When a key application goes down, a business typically has staff that cannot work and customers that cannot be attended to – and that assumes the business isn’t in a critical service industry where failure of a key application would be catastrophic. We’ve built a managed service around the concept of Application Dependency Monitoring, because we think this offers our customers a high value service to ensure their network can be quickly diagnosed when issues occur, but just as importantly to provide a reporting dashboard to give comfort that all is running normally. Related reading - [Managed Services](https://info.iptel.com.au/managed-services) - [ThousandEyes](https://blog.iptel.com.au/thousandeyes) - [Cisco Powered Managed Services: Request More Info](https://info.iptel.com.au/managed-services) --- ## Reason 1: Insight Insight means a faster resolution to issues. If you don’t have deep monitoring on your network all the way to the Application layer, how do you know how good an experience your users – and by implication, your business – is actually getting? That lack of insight is costing money, in lost productivity with issues you don’t know the root cause on and are very difficult and expensive to isolate and remediate. Using not only standard monitors, but also synthetic traffic monitors, we can test out the entire OSI stack from an end user’s laptop – that’s about as deep a level of performance monitoring as you can do. The end game is to give us deep insights and to immediately be able to alert when these occur – and of course, take some corrective action. Related reading - [ThousandEyes](https://blog.iptel.com.au/thousandeyes) - [Cisco Powered Managed Services](https://blog.iptel.com.au/cisco-powered-managed-services) - [Meraki Powered Managed Services](https://blog.iptel.com.au/meraki-managed-service) --- ## Reason 2: Comfort Level [![X2 - Managed Services (Instagram Post (Square))](https://blog.iptel.com.au/hs-fs/hubfs/Blogs/Managed%20Services%20-%20X2%20Full%20Stack%20Observability/X2%20-%20Managed%20Services%20(Instagram%20Post%20(Square)).gif?width=224&height=224&name=X2%20-%20Managed%20Services%20(Instagram%20Post%20(Square)).gif)](https://blog.iptel.com.au/managed-services-faq-part-1) When you have a lot of moving parts in your network, knowing the network baseline is an important factor in ensuring you have a comfort level that it is operating normally. The absence of issues is the best time to deploy Application Dependency Monitoring as we can see how the network performs normally and get a few days or weeks of baseline information. The baseline allows us to configure alerts to provide specific insights into when your network departs from its normal baseline – and this is different for every network. We have custom integrated our ThousandEyes Application Dependency Monitoring back end into our Jira dashboard. From a customer perspective, this is good news – it’s really easy to see that all your services are up and operational within their normal bounds. This is the comfort level bit – one look at the screen and all is well. When it isn’t – well, that’s obvious too.   Related reading - [Managed Services Q&A](https://blog.iptel.com.au/managed-services-qa) - [Managed Services Incident Management](https://blog.iptel.com.au/managed-services-incident-management) --- ## Reason 3: Preventative Maintenance [![Managed Services - Customer FAQs (Instagram Post (Square))](https://blog.iptel.com.au/hs-fs/hubfs/Blogs/Managed%20Services%20-%20Customer%20FAQs/Managed%20Services%20-%20Customer%20FAQs%20(Instagram%20Post%20(Square)).png?width=224&height=224&name=Managed%20Services%20-%20Customer%20FAQs%20(Instagram%20Post%20(Square)).png)](https://blog.iptel.com.au/managed-services-faq-part-1) The real value we want to bring with Application Dependency Monitoring is for there to be a stable network and application delivery. If we can achieve that, we arrive at a position where ‘silence is golden’. At this stage, we are not expecting to be reporting on too many issues, but in the world of network and application support, a boring, dull day is a good one! Some customers would view this as the point they no longer need Application Dependency Monitoring, but nothing could be further from the truth. With a stable network it becomes much easier to spot early signs when your network departs from its baseline. This allows us to take preventative action to try and prevent an issue before it occurs – that means higher uptime for your users. Once the baseline is in place, alerts are raised automatically in our ticketing system, so the process from an issue arising to getting it registered with a person to look into it is automatic. This is efficient – it saves time and ensures the subsequent investigation is captured. Related reading - [Managed Services Q&A](https://blog.iptel.com.au/managed-services-qa) - [Managed Services Incident Management](https://blog.iptel.com.au/managed-services-incident-management) --- ## Application Dependency Monitoring: FAQs ### Why Do Businesses Need Application Dependency Monitoring? Cloud applications are delivered across your network and the internet. Monitoring both shows where performance problems actually sit. ### What Insight Does It Provide? Visibility of each part of the path — your network, ISPs and SaaS providers — so you can see trends and pinpoint faults. ### How Does It Support Preventative Maintenance? By spotting degradation early, issues can be addressed before they become outages. ### Is It Only for Large Enterprises? No. Any organisation that relies on cloud applications across sites can benefit, although larger and multi-site businesses often see the most value. --- ## Summary Is Application Dependency Monitoring right for your business? The key questions to ask are: - Do you rely on key applications for your business operations? - How confident are you that they are always operating normally? That peace of mind, along with regular insights into the state of the network and the application allows you to take preventative measures – helping you keep your critical applications and hence business operations online. [![Cisco Powered Managed Services (Instagram)](https://blog.iptel.com.au/hs-fs/hubfs/Blogs/Cisco%20Powered%20Managed%20Services/Cisco%20Powered%20Managed%20Services%20(Instagram).jpg?width=209&height=209&name=Cisco%20Powered%20Managed%20Services%20(Instagram).jpg)](https://info.iptel.com.au/managed-services)If you're interested to know more, please[complete our managed services request form](https://info.iptel.com.au/managed-services). Managed Services mean a lot of things to different people. 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Across these services, we cover your complete Meraki environment, as well as a comprehensive support offering for your Cisco environment.  Related reading - [Managed Services](https://info.iptel.com.au/managed-services) - [Cisco Powered Managed Services](https://blog.iptel.com.au/cisco-powered-managed-services) - [Meraki Powered Managed Services](https://blog.iptel.com.au/meraki-managed-service) - [Cisco Powered Managed Services: Request More Info](https://info.iptel.com.au/managed-services) ### Need Help With ThousandEyes? IPTel deploys and runs [Cisco ThousandEyes](https://iptel.com.au/technologies/thousandeyes) as part of our managed services. If that would be useful, [get in touch with the IPTel team](https://iptel.com.au/contact-us) or email [sales@iptel.com.au](mailto:sales@iptel.com.au). #### Related Articles ###### [Application Dependency Monitoring - FAQ](https://blog.iptel.com.au/application-dependency-monitoring-faq) Sept 21, 2026 ###### [Managed Services - Application Dependency Monitoring (FSO)](https://blog.iptel.com.au/managed-services-application-dependency-monitoring) July 24, 2026 ###### [Managed Services - Full Stack Observability](https://blog.iptel.com.au/managed-services-x2-full-stack-observability) Feb 13, 2026 ```json { "@context" : "https://schema.org", "@type" : "BlogPosting", "author" : { "@type" : "Person", "name" : "IPTel Solutions", "url" : "https://blog.iptel.com.au/author/iptel-solutions" }, "dateModified" : "2026-10-03T07:47:49.366Z", "datePublished" : "2026-03-12T05:52:44.000Z", "headline" : "Application Dependency Monitoring: Top 3 Reasons | IPTel", "image" : [ "https://blog.iptel.com.au/hubfs/Blogs/Managed%20Services%20-%20Application%20Dependency%20Monitoring/Managed%20Services%20Application%20Dependency%20Monitoring.gif" ], "mainEntityOfPage" : { "@id" : "https://blog.iptel.com.au/managed-services-application-dependency-monitoring-top-3-reasons", "@type" : "WebPage" }, "publisher" : { "@type" : "Organization", "logo" : { "@type" : "ImageObject", "url" : "https://blog.iptel.com.au/hubfs/IPTel_Solutions_February2020%20-%20Header%20SiteMap/Images/IPTellogo-byline-2020-dark-v2.png" }, "name" : "IPTel Solutions Pty Ltd" } } ```