Building Your Own Network Monitoring Solution? Why Not Change Your Own Oil, Too?

Thursday, November 1st, 2012

My grandpa loved cars. He worked on them with a level of passion most people reserve for things like expensive red wines and members of the opposite sex. He didn’t believe in outsourcing the care and maintenance of his wheels. So I was shocked when one day he announced that changing his ...

Not all monitoring sucks

Saturday, March 31st, 2012

There's some interesting discussion around "Monitoring Sucks", and has been for a while. (Go check the twitter hashtag #monitoringsucks).  This is not a new opinion - the fact that I thought monitoring sucks is why I started LogicMonitor. But it's interesting to assess whether LogicMonitor meets the criteria for not sucking. ...

Are free monitoring tools like Nagios really free?

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010

IT people by nature are supposed to be gurus. They’re supposed to be able to build things from scratch. This expectation certainly applies to data center monitoring, where a common practice is to rely on open source monitoring tools such as Nagios. But when you consider the value of your ...