[BBLISA] Monitoring survey

[John Miller]

Hello everyone,

We're currently on the market for some new monitoring software --
Hyperic isn't keeping up well with the times.  We're also using
SolarWinds for the network side of things.  Primarily we're looking
for server/app monitoring, but consolidating things into a single tool
might also make sense.  We're running a mix of local VMs (VMware and
XenServer) as well as EC2 instances, ELB instances, and Route 53 for
our DNS.

Before I start demoing 20-odd different products, I thought I'd ping
the group: what are you all using for monitoring?  Are you happy with
it?  What would you do differently if you had to stand up a new
monitoring solution?

John

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John Miller
Systems Engineer
Brandeis University
johnmill at brandeis.edu