GroundWork Launches MonitoringForge.org for Monitoring Tools

by Sam Dean - Sep. 15, 2009Comments (2)

GroundWork Open Source, which provides commercial open source network management software, has announced the launch of MonitoringForge.org, which it bills as a "unified hub for open source monitoring." While the site is primarily aimed at IT administrators who want to compare open source system and network monitoring tools to proprietary alternatives, it may also serve several useful purposes for open source project leaders that don't have community web sites and need to automate aspects of projects. Here are more details.

According to GroundWork's announcement, startup open source projects or plugins that have no community websites can use MonitoringForge to manage elements of their projects including:

Downloading package management
 
Subversioning tracking and code submission
 
Open source licensing management
 
Project review and rankings by users
 
Q&A, roadmap and bug tracking
 
Screenshot galleries
 
Wikis, documentation, newsfeeds and forums
 
Meta-tagging and search friendly descriptions
 
Project based security to make a project publicly available, or private

“Inspired by IT admins who search multiple discussion boards or project developer sites trying to find answers and insight, MonitoringForge is the first web site to fulfill a real need for an open source monitoring hub connecting tools with users and advice,” said Tara Spalding, vice president of Marketing for GWOS.

The beta site has more than 1,700 open source projects and plugins, according to GroundWork. It looks like the site can help project administrators discover some useful tools. Among the top-rated projects at the site, you can get MRTG, a multi-router traffic grapher, Nagios, one of the most popular enterprise network monitoring applicationos, and NagVis, a tool for visualizing Nagios data. If you manage an open source project or a network, take a look.

 


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What a half baked site, I think that was an interns pet project or something...pretty weak and not news worthy yet.


Oh and I'm a big Groundwork Open Source fan but this is just bad.


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@jon

Monitoring Forge launched in beta form to engage the community as early as possible and to help find the best people for the MonitoringForge.org advisory board. See more at http://monitoringforge.org/plugins/wpress/2009/09/10/monitoringforge-adv....


It is still early days for the site; with wide community participation and some more "baking time" I hope it will become an invaluable resource for sysadmins and ops guys-and-gals whatever their technological tool of choice.


-Simon


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