I'm obviously biased as I'm the Head Geek here at SolarWinds but if you need any help or guidance with our products feel free to ping me off list. Josh -----Original Message----- From: Brandon Kim [mailto:brandon.kim@brandontek.com] Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 1:14 PM To: mloftis@wgops.com Cc: nanog group Subject: RE: events 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@wgops.com To: brandon.kim@brandontek.com CC: pfunix@gmail.com; harbor235@gmail.com; nanog@nanog.org
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Brandon Kim <brandon.kim@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.