Splunk is more of a log analysis tool than monitoring software per se. If you want expensive, then there’s always BMC Patrol, IBM Tivoli, and to a lesser extent Microsoft SCOM.
Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Joseph Cooney Sent: Saturday, 25 August 2012 7:44 PM To: ozDotNet Cc: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Server Monitoring I thought 'splunk' was the 'money is no object' option? Sent from my iPhone On 25/08/2012, at 7:19 PM, David Connors <da...@connors.com<mailto:da...@connors.com>> wrote: If money is no object, SolarWinds If you want something vaguely approximate that is cheaper: WhatsUpGold. On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Corneliu I. Tusnea <corne...@acorns.com.au<mailto:corne...@acorns.com.au>> wrote: Hi DotNetters, Any one has any recommendations for a service/platform/application that I can use for monitoring my cloud servers (W2K8,SQL2K8)? I'd like to monitor classic stuff: availability, IIS, SQL, maybe a bit of disk and CPU. The only important one really is availability (http/https). Regards, Corneliu