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We all know how important it is these days to monitor critical applications as well as the network itself. Of course, there is a tool available for nearly any monitoring requirement you may have. Many IT strategists and operations people complain about a lack of information regarding monitoring solutions offered by anyone but the most well-known of vendors.
To “fill in the gap” on that topic, welcome to the first installment of “Monitoring Resources.”
MonitoringTools.com is a very thorough summary of tools for nearly any monitoring objective. All tools are grouped by category, so regardless whether you need to monitor security, VOIP, or even applications and databases, this site should have recommended solutions for your needs.
You can find the following categories available on MonitoringTools: alerting, application monitoring, database monitoring, enterprise management, environmental monitoring, even log monitoring, network & system monitoring, network diagnostic tools, network traffic monitoring, PC monitoring, performance monitoring, protocol analyzing & packet capture, security monitoring, service level monitoring, SNMP monitoring, VoIP monitoring, web monitoring, and “miscellaneous” to cover anything not suitable to this extensive list of categories.
Under each category, you will find a list of options, each separated out into its own “box” of content. Each box gives a quick overview of the product itself, plus the name and URL for the company who offers the product. In some posts they’ve even included pricing information.
Caveat: The site does absolutely nothing to evaluate or recommend any of the tools, so it won’t help you there. In fact, the product descriptions are clearly either derived from the “official” company messaging or submitted by the vendors themselves. However, if you need a fairly extensive list of tools in a particular category, this would be a great starting point for your own research and due diligence.
Given the wide range of tool types that are included on this site, we decided to go ahead and add it to our official BlogRoll. Please share comments about positive or negative experiences using this site below for all to see. We only want to recommend resources that are useful (and that come with no “gotcha’s”), so feedback is greatly appreciated.
