So what happens when my email server goes down? One of the huge advantages nagios has is that there are plugins that'll send SMSes, plugins that'll send me phon

So what happens when my email server goes down? One of the huge advantages nagios has is that there are plugins that'll send SMSes, plugins that'll send me phone calls. Hell, people have written scripts that let them call to get nagios alerts [1]. One of the huge advantages of having something hosted in-house, and with nagios, is that it can be configured to a level of precision I can't see your tool coming close to achieving. Yes, Nagios' configuration is ugly and occasionally requires sacrifices to elder gods. At the same time, I've never found any sort of monitoring/alerting I've needed done that it can't handle. As much as your service looks cool for a specific subset of monitoring, it is still missing half the hooks as to why nagios is stubbornly sticking around. [1] http://www.googlux.com/callnagios.html http://www.googlux.com/callnagios.html