Helping your business department untangle the IT spaghetti This is a blog I wrote for the monitoring tool that I am writing for Coliance - called "Opsis". Your Purchasing system may run using security gateways, messaging systems, an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), an API Manager etc. Overlaying each individual piece of software is a layer of configuration that makes up the runtime for each specific business solution. i.e., security gateway policies, messaging systems queues, Enterprise Service Bus Flows, etc. When viewed like this, we can see that business solutions take ‘paths’ through ‘systems’. These paths are complex and vary depending on the business problem being solved. Sometimes, however, this is unattainable with your IT team kept busy monitoring whether machines are running, or if the software is generally operational. They spend much of their time examining individual artifacts on these systems such as queues and flows. Chances a