Monitoring Studio vs. Development of a Custom Solution

The table below recapitulates the monitoring features usually required in order to monitor a custom application or any IT component for which no standard monitoring solution already exist. The table shows whether a feature is available in each solution and its capability if present.

Features comparison between a custom KM and Monitoring Studio

Feature	Development of a custom KM	Monitoring Studio
Process monitoring
Filesystem monitoring
Folder monitoring
Log file parsing
SNMP polling
SNMP trap listening
WBEM polling
HTTP requests
JMX polling
SQL queries
Windows EventLogs parsing
Windows Performance Counters
Commands execution and analysis
String searches
Multi-line parsing
XML parsing
Numeric value extraction
Per-application grouping
Recovery Actions
Custom monitoring deployment

—	Feature not present

Basic

Good

Advanced

The above table indicates that every monitoring feature in BMC Performance Manager Monitoring Studio can be present and more powerful in a custom KM…as long as you accept all the hidden costs, time taken and resource allocation required for custom development, the possibilities are endless. From a pure features point of view and without taking into account the time taken to develop it, a custom KM could certainly have more (or less) capabilities than Monitoring Studio KM. A custom KM is only what you make it. The fact that one custom KM with so many features may take 1 year to develop is not shown in this table.