MonitorThis is a complete monitoring service in a single executable.
This efficient, effective monitoring service is configured from a single XML file and includes a suite of monitors that can be configured to perform regular environmental monitoring checks.
MonitorThis has no user interface and is designed to run as a silent background service. It can be installed from the command line, automatically updates regularly from a network share and save alerts to a network location, posts alerts to a web portal or sends email notifications.
MonitorThis works like an advanced XML based task scheduler allowing you to schedule monitoring activities to occur as required all launched as separate threads by the monitoring service. This approach ensures redundancy and reliability with a cache of the last run for all scheduled activities ensuring monitoring continues smoothly after a reboot or maintenance outage of a machine. MonitorThis allows any script or application to be launched so it is not limited to the included functionality but can be used to trigger custom scripts or processes to monitor unique applications to assist service or software providers.
Out of the box MonitorThis includes functionality to replace a wide range of individual monitoring applications such as StalkerGo, ServiceStalker, ProcessStalker, DriveStalker and WebStalker. These applications are designed to be simple, user friendly and perform a single task. MonitorThis is designed to be stable, fast and efficient, minimising resource usage, while performing a more complex range of monitoring activities. This makes it more suitable for enterprise server monitoring especially when combined with the free monitoring portal included.
As of July 2016 MonitorThis had completed over 150,000 operational hours of enterprise monitoring. I still use it but it is so stable it has required no further updates.
A Classic ASP monitoring portal is included with MonitorThis allowing a completely customised monitoring experience to be tailored to suit your individual requirements. This portal is intended as a demonstration of how alerts can be received and processed into a portal allowing ultimate flexibility for you to tailor a solution to your requirements. The portal is not required to use MonitorThis as email notifications can operate independently.
Advanced functionality available with this portal include:
Microsoft Windows PC or Server
Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10/11/Server 2008/Server 2008R2/2012
Xsemmel MT is a customised version of Xsemmel designed for validating and configuring MonitorThis XML files. Based on XSemmel by Frank Schnitzer this great XML editor has now been enhanced to assist you in validating your MonitorThis configuration before deployment.
XSemmel is fully featured XML editor with a long list of features including:
Xsemmel MT extends this with the following enhancements:
XSemmel MT does not include an installer but is currently a standalone application that requires minimum .NET 4.6 to be installed.
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