Wanted to give a heads up that we’ve updated a note which was published about 18 months ago around open source and freeware monitoring tools.
Clients only link:
Market Guide for Open-Source and Freeware Monitoring Tools
The document covers basic information on the following technologies:
Minisuites : Ipswitch, ManageEngine, Solarwinds
Free Monitoring from Artica ST (Pandora FMS), GroundWork, Icinga, op5, Opsview, Paessler, SevOne, Spiceworks, Splunk, Torch (Graylog2), VMTubro, XpoLog, Zabbix, Zenoss
SaaS monitoring from AppDynamics, AppFirst, Boundary, Datadog, GFI Software, Loggly, New Relic, ScaleXtreme (Citrix now), Splunk, and Sumo Logic
Changes from late 2012 until today:
Vendors Added
Since writing our previous research on how to leverage free and low-cost server, network and storage monitoring tools, we’ve seen the following changes in the market:
AppDynamics — Lite offering provides always-on monitoring, where the previous product was only functional during use
Artica ST — Pandora FMS, open-source offering
Icinga — Open-source offering
Loggly — Relaunched offering targeted at a wider user community
Torch — Graylog2, a new offering
XpoLog — Free offering for log analysis
Vendors Removed
Compared with our earlier research about free and low-cost server, network and storage monitoring, we removed vendors that, unless otherwise noted, left this market:
Correlsense — Low-cost offering
Jinspired — Lack of adoption across Gartner client base
Net Optics — Lack of adoption across Gartner client base
Quest Software (now part of Dell Software) — Low-cost offering
VMware — Low-cost offering lacked Gartner client adoption, but the solution is being retooled and better integrated with the VMware vCenter Operations Manager offering.