Survey Results: Community Edition (GWMCE) Downloaders Do More with Open Source

GroundWork conducts an ongoing community edition downloader survey that provides a better understanding of how GWMCE is used and how GWMCE can be improved.

Here are some of the monitoring trends reported from our first round of results.

The IT environments that GWMCE monitors are complex, heterogeneous, and require a high level of functionality and reliability from GWMCE. This competency is valued more than accessibility to tools and libraries.

Almost half of the GWMCE installers monitor a significant percentage (over 25%) of their environment with GWMCE.

63% of the monitored nodes are servers, 24% are network nodes and 13% are other devices

As organizations have a higher monitored node count (over 300 devices), the network nodes gain a greater share (35%) of monitored devices, and servers reduce to 49%.

Surprisingly, the most monitored OS by GWMCE is Windows at 52.6%, second is Linux at 38.9%. Other OS like Unix, Solaris and others account for the remaining 9%.

Looking at the community’s ranked product values – accessibility to libraries for monitoring diverse environments are less important (ranked #9 out of 12) as product working as advertised and easy custom monitoring techniques (#1 and 2 out of 12).

This datapoint can be interpreted that the ability to customize and amply do the monitoring competently outweighs the accessibility of external resources such as libraries and tools.

Would you agree?

This survey is managed by Matt Lawton of Sample Analytics.If you have downloaded GWMCE, you may participate in the survey – by starting here.