Poll: Which server monitoring tool do you use?

Re:Poll: Which server monitoring tool do you use? by huhtenberg on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @11:03AM (#670490)

Yeah, exactly. $360 per year for two servers is really expensive.

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Re:Poll: Which server monitoring tool do you use? by dmytton on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @11:22AM (#670528)

Depends what you compare it to. If you're looking at the "free" products like Nagios etc, then of course it's more expensive. But Nagios and the like require a lot of time and effort to set up, have ongoing maintance and require their own server (no point installing on the same server you're monitoring).

It's therefore about the value the service gives you i.e. support, ease of use, fast setup, easy alerting (e-mail & SMS) and so on.

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Re:Poll: Which server monitoring tool do you use? by huhtenberg on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @12:19PM (#670640)

I'm sure you read through my comment in your "Please Review" thread, so just for the reference of others - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658749

In short - if your model works, great, but I can easily see it not working due to the service not being positioned properly.

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