Application Monitoring

[WernerCD]

I'm looking at a few different options for downtime monitoring.

The question I have is... what options are available for monitoring
connection & application downtime? Response times?

Server A is running fine but the ISP goes offline (Someone runs into a pole. Power goes out and it lives on generator for 3 hours. Etc.). How do you track that?

I live in a diverse environment with some in-house applications... In which we can add tests to see if it's alive and responsive... BUT we have a lot of applications I'm going to need to track on a variety of systems. Windows, AIX, DB2, Unix...

While I think most of the options (Zabbix, Nagios, Zenoss, etc) have good options for tracking Server Downtimes (Agents), I'm wanting to know the "normal" path for tracking applications on a server.

Because server A might be up for years... but while App A & B is working fine on Server A - App C is crashing nightly and App D runs very slow from 9:30am to 10:30 am daily.

I'm okay with having to go in and manually tweak the information... I assume no system will capture data perfectly. But I want something to capture the data as flawlessly as possible and Application tracking is where I'm the most confused.

[WernerCD]

No reply. I'm very interested in finding out how well Zabbix handles application monitoring and manual updates of data... compared to other solutions (Nagios, Zenoss, etc)

[untergeek]

If you can imagine it and build it, Zabbix will monitor it. You may need to create your own scenarios, but it can be done. The things you describe here are pretty run-of-the-mill for Zabbix.