Before choosing this product, we also evaluated Ipswitch and SolarWinds.

IBM tooling for monitoring. It was the highest. Cost-wise, I think IBM is costlier, and obviously, it provides more in terms of tooling monitoring. It can also perform log monitoring, which Opsview doesn't do. It requires a separate license for that functionality.

I believe we also looked at Nagios XI.

Yes, we evaluated a host of both major vendor and open-source based products, including ITM, BEA, NetIQ, Nagios XI, Groundwork Opensource and more than a dozen others.

We also evaluated Nagios XI and Nagios Core.

Well, if you are ready to spend a lot of money and time in getting a large system view installation up and running (in a performance way), Opsview is THE solution which covers most requirements you can possibly have. But if you want to rely on open source software, which has no license fees or feature limits, I can recommend CheckMK, Shinken and Icinga2. I used CheckMK and Icinga 2 for monitoring projects since the end of 2014 because I prefer limit-free open source software over commercial software.

We were toying within the idea of proactive monitoring as well, but because we've been an Opsview shop for quite a number of years, it was just easier at the time just to renew the contract.

Before choosing this product, we evaluated Icinga.

Before choosing this product, we did not evaluate other options.

No other options were looked at.

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