David, Thanks for the reference. I'll check
1. I don't have a server to allocate for this. My servers are all in the cloud in various locations. I really want a service not a product :) 2. I don't see anything in their list specific to .Net. NewRelic has very good profiling for .Net On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 12:46 PM, David Connors <da...@connors.com> wrote: > PRTG is the go. It was recommended to me by someone on this list (thanks!) > and it is boss. We use it to monitor s truck load of stuff and it is very > flexible. Some parts of it that are boss: > > - It is entirely agent based. Even in a single server install it uses > a local probe to do the polls. This is really critical as it lets us deal > with our complex network topology and customer sites by dropping agents on > their private networks. They talk back to our central management station. > - It has a bucket load of checks it can perform. > - It has some really smart ones like being able to pull values from > XML docs via REST and then graph them/set up alarms on them. We use this at > one of my startups to chart internal platform metrics without having to > stuff around putting stuff in Windows perfmon etc. > - It scales well. We use it to do TechEd - thousands of sensors across > the network - and it handles it no problems together with all of our normal > load. > > David. > > > David Connors > da...@connors.com | M +61 417 189 363 > Download my v-card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors > Follow me on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/davidconnors > Connect with me on LinkedIn: http://au.linkedin.com/in/davidjohnconnors > > > On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Corneliu I. Tusnea < > corne...@acorns.com.au> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm looking for some recommendations for a system that does Server & >> Application Monitoring for our servers. >> >> I've tried NewRelic and while it's an impressive product they don't have >> very good support for custom metrics and instrumentation. I'd like to be >> able to publish my own metrics that should be displayed in line with the >> metrics they already collect. >> For example they have SQL Transactions, I'd like to add my own metric of >> number of [....]. >> >> I've tried Datadog and while the metrics you can have are very >> configurable and you can log a lot of custom metrics and combine them in >> all types of graphs as you like (very cool) they have very basic support >> for .Net and SQL server compared to NewRelic. >> >> I've tried GraphData and their default graphs/monitoring is nice but >> again, only basic support for custom metrics. >> >> I've tried CooperEgg and was .. ok .... >> >> I've checked http://www.foglight-on-demand.com/ (now owned by Dell). It >> looks exactly like what I want but it only seems to work for Azure :( >> >> Any other ideas? There has to be some system to help me monitor the >> health of my app. >> >> Thanks, >> Corneliu. >> >> >
