Comments on: Monitis vs Open Source ? WTF ? http://arzur.net/2010/06/08/monitis-vs-open-source-wtf/ technology, the web, programming and a bit of this and that ... Mon, 02 May 2011 13:20:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: John A. http://arzur.net/2010/06/08/monitis-vs-open-source-wtf/comment-page-1/#comment-11 John A. Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:10:29 +0000 http://arzur.net/?p=100#comment-11 Hi, thanks you for your blog post. I am working for Monitis and would like to clarify some points. First of all we are not against open source, and indeed you are correct that we mostly mean "self-managed monitoring solution" which is what typically users end up with open source monitoring. Although let me correct a few points which you made assuming your are not familiar with the product. 1. Notifications. Monitis provides: # Live-Voice # Email # SMS # IM (instant messengers, including ICQ, Google Talk) # Twitter You can reach the same with Nagios but it will cost extra hours of setup and maintenance. 2. We are green not because we are in the cloud, but because we are multi-tenant - means users are sharing the same servers and there is not need of an instance per user. In your case you still need your own dedicated instance. 3. you do not dedicated hardware with Monitis. We are monitoring large mission critical applications with our low footprint agent. 4. easy to setup - actually there is nothing to setup except adding monitors. It is like Gmail versus MS Exchange. just signup and it is ready to use. Please contact us and we would like to demo the product to you and provide a free account so give you better feeling and we can further discuss the points. Actually we are also running a completely free web monitoring service http://mon.itor.us but it its mostly limited to external website monitoring. Regards Hi, thanks you for your blog post. I am working for Monitis and would like to clarify some points. First of all we are not against open source, and indeed you are correct that we mostly mean “self-managed monitoring solution” which is what typically users end up with open source monitoring. Although let me correct a few points which you made assuming your are not familiar with the product.

1. Notifications. Monitis provides:

# Live-Voice
# Email
# SMS
# IM (instant messengers, including ICQ, Google Talk)
# Twitter

You can reach the same with Nagios but it will cost extra hours of setup and maintenance.

2. We are green not because we are in the cloud, but because we are multi-tenant – means users are sharing the same servers and there is not need of an instance per user. In your case you still need your own dedicated instance.

3. you do not dedicated hardware with Monitis. We are monitoring large mission critical applications with our low footprint agent.

4. easy to setup – actually there is nothing to setup except adding monitors. It is like Gmail versus MS Exchange. just signup and it is ready to use.

Please contact us and we would like to demo the product to you and provide a free account so give you better feeling and we can further discuss the points. Actually we are also running a completely free web monitoring service http://mon.itor.us but it its mostly limited to external website monitoring.

Regards

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