Among dozens of IT infrastructure monitoring solutions on the market, MAGNAPing is unique because it allows to monitor that which is most important and from where it is most important. Its competitors usually install in a central location; therefore, they provide only a partial view of your infrastructure, by monitoring from a different angle. On the contrary, MAGNAPing’s pricing and licensing model allows it to be right where it is needed: at the point where a possible failure may impact.
IT professionals know that it is critically important to monitor endpoints and connections between them, in the same manner as real-life applications connect. For example, a web application that connects to a database server needs this connection to stay up. It does not help if some other host where a monitoring system is deployed still has a connection to the DB but the web application no longer does, or vice versa. By deploying an instance of MAGNAPing on the same host as the web application you keep an eye on the connection that is important. This also helps to avoid false positives.
With their low cost, flexibility, and low memory and CPU footprint, MAGNAPing instances can be sprinkled over your infrastructure, to keep their watchful eyes on the resources necessary to keep your business going. You only have to seat back and watch your inbox for alerts that will hopefully come seldom if ever.