[ale] Monitoring (Was "Todays trends")

[questy at gmail.com (Jerald Sheets)]

On Oct 9, 2013, at 7:45 AM, "Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at water.com> wrote:

> So the issue wasn't Nagios - it was the folks managing it.
> 
> Nagios is a great tool and we use it in Production.   



I'll bite.  Nobody better to discuss with than the ALE family?


So, I hate Nagios.  Can't express how much I dislike the product, the layout of the alerting, the lack of a comprehensive, easy to see and understand dashboard with easily managed/administered acknowledgements, mobile accessibility, automation, escalation paging? you name it.

Now, before you freak out, I know it's all in there, but I personally find it markedly difficult to find all this stuff in the way Nagios has decided to lay everything out.


Is this just a "me" thing?  Is it because my earliest and most often used monitoring stuff is from a "Big Brother" background?  (BB, Hobbit, Xymon, Foglight, Spotlight)


What's the general landscape of monitoring tools and utilities in use out there?


--Jerald