What’s next for GroundWork Monitor?

We’re planning out some great new capabilities for GroundWork Monitor and a wanted to share a taste of things to come. We’re simultaneously working in a couple of core areas:

• Visualization of monitoring information through different lenses - physical topology, business process and logical flow. Our partners have been very active building solutions in this area and we’re working to include their expertise to improve Monitor Enterprise.
• Different Configuration use-cases. The current Monarch configuration tool is a very popular component of GroundWork Monitor but it is far from perfect. We’re looking at ways Monarch can be made easier to use. In addition we’re taking a step back to look at new approaches to configuration that account for different types of users including less-experienced administrators and people coming from other tools who aren’t steeped in the history, tradition and conventions of tools such as Nagios Core, RRDtool, Cacti and SNMPtt.

These initiatives will be the basis of our Enterprise Edition 6.3 and 6.4 releases respectively. From a time-line perspective we’re targeting 90-120 days between releases to balance our quality, stability and feature development goals.

Connectors and integrations for GroundWork Monitor are another area we’re expanding with the help of some great technology partners. If you haven’t already done so we’d love to hear your thoughts on incident management and ticketing over at this short, one-page survey.

As always your questions and comments are appreciated to sbennett (at) gwos (dot) com.