Nagios is a widely used monitoring software for systems and networks. It provides the flexibility to monitor anything on your systems or networks using a script or plugin.  Known for having plugins and scripts available to monitor your needs, Nagios’ the interface and user friendliness leaves much to be desired.  Plus you have to maintain and monitor another server to store and analyze the data provided through your Nagios plugins and scripts.  And worst of all, if your Nagios server or network fail – you may not get an alert at all when you need them the most.

A hosted system monitor gathering your stats is a good way to ensure that alerts get to you, and having it have nice tools and interfaces is definitely a bonus.  Monitis is a hosted systems and networks monitoring solution that offers a simple user interface, with powerful tools, and a distributed network to prevent any service failures  blocking your alerts.  It will free up your sysadmins from monitoring their monitoring servers, and will allow them to focus on the issues rather than looking for the issues.
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