[145200] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: events
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephens, Josh)
Fri Sep 30 14:30:46 2011
From: "Stephens, Josh" <Josh.Stephens@solarwinds.com>
To: Brandon Kim <brandon.kim@brandontek.com>, "mloftis@wgops.com"
<mloftis@wgops.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:29:43 +0000
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Cc: nanog group <nanog@nanog.org>
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I'm obviously biased as I'm the Head Geek here at SolarWinds but if you nee=
d 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]=20
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 a=
t 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
>=20
> 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?
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> 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.
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