Open source network and systems monitoring software

It is important to know how reliable your cloud provider is. The SaaS community heavily criticised Amazon when they had outages in their S3 storage cloud. As a direct result Amazon rolled out a comprehensive Service Health Dashboard. This gives a good insight into what is going on with the Amazon cloud services.

Any dashboard provided by a cloud provider opens the door to tainting the truth on performance and availably. It could therefore be useful to have an independent source of metrics to refer to.

Rather than spending time and resources on building such a monitoring system yourself, Hyperic has launched CloudStatus. This is a new cloud service monitoring and logging service. It gives another view into what is going on inside the Amazon cloud.

I think this is an interesting development and I congratulate Hyperic for making this service available. The more insight we have on cloud performance the better. Independent metrics help reassure SaaS customers that clouds are at least as reliable as in-house systems.

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