Today we bring you a comparison: OpenNMS vs Zabbix vs Pandora FMS. Three titans of open-source software, without a doubt. We will see its main features and we will talk about the business model of each company -free does not necessarily mean for free- and we will summarize with graphic information. Three monitoring solutions that are rather projects: these are software made by companies that share their code with everyone and that can be used -and modified- by anyone.

Last Friday May 31, Nicolas Beauvais, CTO and only tech person of small startup raisup.com, took to Twitter with a cry for help. Their cloud hosting company Digital Ocean had just locked their account and made it clear that this was permanent.

Our latest product update features an intuitive home (landing) page that orients users with a quick, real-time view into what’s happening right now in your production systems. Home displays commonly used queries and breakdowns, and provides a jumping-off point to explore data about what’s happening in production.

The OpsRamp Summer 2019 release delivers comprehensive features for modern infrastructure management with intelligent hybrid monitoring and contextual event correlation. The new release delivers AIOps innovations such as OpsQ Observed Mode and auto-alert suppression management along with enhanced network topology maps and new cloud native monitoring capabilities.

“What have you done for me lately?” It’s an honest question that doesn’t always have an easy answer. Fact is, you’re doing a lot of proactive work behind-the-scenes to prevent network disruptions and unnecessary downtime. But if you’re not heroically putting out fires in front of your clients, they might think they’re paying you for nothing.

Distributed tracing has become a de-facto standard for monitoring distributed architectures, helping engineers to pinpoint errors and identify performance bottlenecks. Zipkin is one of the popular open source “tracers” available in the market, and I’m now happy to inform our users that we’ve recently introduced a new integration that allows users to easily ship trace data collected by Zipkin to Logz.io!

TimescaleDB is an open source database packaged as a Postgres extension that supports time series, but “it looks as if it were just Postgres,” said Timescale’s Head of Product, Diana Hsieh. “So you can actually use the entire ecosystem. You can use all of the functions that are enabled in Postgres – like JSON indexes, relational tables, post JSON – and they all work with Timescale.”

Whew. May is over, finally. It’s such a rude month, pretending like its summer when it actually is not summer. Get out of here, May. Anyway, hello, June! Here’s everything we shipped in May. Enjoy.

In our ongoing efforts to make it easier to automate monitoring environments we recently introduced a new module for Icinga Web 2. This module is first and foremost a platform which lets you have an overview over all the certificates you are using in your environment to prove the identity of your devices. You can take a quick glance or a very detailed look at them.

We’re very pleased to announce the official launch of our new Java tracer for AWS Lambda. This release extends Lumigo’s real-time monitoring and observability tools to all JVM-based AWS Lambda applications, with support for Apache Groovy, Scala and Kotlin among others.