We had a lot of noise with other monitoring tools. What was very compelling about OpsView was that we could dial out the noise and have meaningful and actionable alerts. For example, if other monitoring tools saw something, they immediately generated alerts. With Opsview, we could say, "If you see this for x minutes, then give us this type of alert." Because maybe it's a yellow alert that is not an email. "If you see this condition for more than x minutes, generate a red alert and email us." That way, we weren't getting flooded with all kinds of non-actionable alerts. That's the term I used with my team, and they embraced it. "Every alert should be actionable."

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The most valuable feature of Opsview is the ability to clone the services when you're monitoring something out of the test setup. You can clone that service, and it allows you to add new services quickly. You can bring up new servers, and you can easily add them. Also, there's an API to be able to add services as well.

We don't use the API. We mostly use the cloning function because it stores everything in a back-end database. The underlying monitoring platform for our version is Nagios. That's where we upgraded from Nagios to Opsview.

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I would have to choose two features: Investigate Mode and Troubleshooting.

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The most valuable features are the file system process monitoring, CPU memory, jump rate process, uptime monitoring, tail light, and call.

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There are several valuable features for us, including ease of configuration of monitoring of new hosts/services, worker redundancy and load balancing, and the fact that it’s compatible with the plethora of existing Nagios plugins available on the web.

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The multi-tenancy that's available through this is one of the most valuable things. We have a whole lot of people who want to do their own monitoring and we are able to offer it up as a service to them, manage the infrastructure side of everything for them, and then give them their own little slice of this. They can take advantage of the distributed components that we have around the world and let them set up their own hosts. That's one of the big features that we really like about it. That's the number one thing.

We tried to find something else and we really can't find something that has that multi-tenancy that's easy to use, especially from the end user's perspective.

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The most valuable feature for us is the flexible alert framework, which allows us to use a variety of alert methods, some custom to my employer. Also important to us is the ability to use the Nagios community to supply monitoring plugins for a wide variety of software and situations, freeing us from having to create them ourselves. Also, the API allows us to control Opsview as a part of other business processes.

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The ease of automating and scheduling work processes to eliminate manual tasks.

You can group jobs by functional area (Lab and RAD), or by similar output, and results such as scheduling reports for departments. Visual display of successful jobs and failures is easy to see at a glance. You can also automate error reports and email them to your support team.

By grouping jobs into categories such as Lab or RAD, when an end user calls with an issue, it makes it easier to troubleshoot. You can go directly to that functional group and look for failures.

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The dashboard, which gives us real-time monitoring, is the most valuable feature for us.

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The most valuable component of Opsview might be the very good web GUI. It provides a great overview of all hosts and services; furthermore, adding new monitoring targets and modifying existing configuration is possible. The web interface is powered by at least one database which makes it easy to backup. In addition one might take note of the API which at least allows automated configuration.

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The system is very robust and very rarely breaks. It just sits there working, doing what's expected. Very little maintenance is needed and the support is very good. I would say stability is the most valuable feature. I'm struggling to think of a time when it actually crashed or when we had a problem.

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The most important feature is the distributed, highly-available monitoring clusters available in the enterprise editions. As we run multiple sites around the world and every second of service disruption costs us money, this feature is critical.

The second most valuable feature for us is the extendability of the service checks and event handling (auto-correction).

The third most important feature was the single point of configuration.

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For me, scalability and reliability are the product's most valuable features.

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I like its scalability thanks to slaves. You can add as many slave as you want, which also allows you to reach and monitor devices running on the network that are not accessible by the master. It also has good roles management which is very useful for a service provided to customers. Lastly, it also has a nice GUI.

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The two most valuable features for us are the GUI front end and the centralization of confirmation information in a MySQL backend.

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The most valuable feature we've found is really just how easy it is to add servers and devices to the monitor. We also like the UI and applications. What we've also found that we like the iOS app which lets us acknowledge issues or see warnings from our mobile phones away from the office.

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The most valuable features for us are the modification profiles and the initial dashboard. They're also the two main things we use the most.

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There are various features in Opsview that our organization finds valuable. We love the accurate alerting, graphs, and customization of alerts.

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• Easy setup hosts
• Easy configuring service checks
• Very easy-to-use interface, especially starting from v5 onwards
• Advanced tweaking possibilities
• Netflow

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Easy to configure and deploy a distributed setup (allowing us to quickly and (nearly) effortless add new servers to the platform). View full review »

• Alerting and notification features
• Unlimited users
• Timed notification profiles

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