events

Fri Sep 30 18:13:44 UTC 2011

Thank you! That's a bummer about the way they license their product.

All it takes is another "splunk" company to come out with something just as competitive....

I've been happy with my basic ManageEngine's syslog, but I may be looking at Solarwinds too...

> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:36:58 -0600
> Subject: Re: events
> From: mloftis at wgops.com
> To: brandon.kim at brandontek.com
> CC: pfunix at gmail.com; harbor235 at gmail.com; nanog at nanog.org
> 
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Brandon Kim
> <brandon.kim at brandontek.com> wrote:
> >
> > Is it really that expensive, and WORTH the expense?
> 
> IMO, from price quotes I've gotten in the past, it's astronomically
> expensive.  As for worth it...depends.  If you're dealing with events
> for say payment processing systems, it might be.  But as a general use
> tool, it's way outside of being worth it.  You license based on the
> incoming bytes of logging data.  But you still have to buy the
> hardware to process it.  They also expect you to pay for that license
> time and time again.