[slysf]

An absolutely necessary feature for me is auto-discovery. Zabbix really has this down with recent versions. If your system has comparable templating/groups and the ability to autodiscover in IP ranges you'd be +1 on most solutions. If you then added better dashboards (ala Zenoss?) and the ability to acknowledge events from emails etc then you'd really have something I'd try out.

Here's the bar for me: If I spend a few solid days on zabbix per "server class" (ie: mysql, web server, etc) I can have everything I need automatically monitored with zero effort for me going forward (to ~1000 servers). That said, acknowledgement of alerts, etc is a huge pain in zabbix.

[Skywing]

Alerts, in various forms, are definitely one of our top priorities. That was the spark that ignited our project. So, we're focused on making those as intuitive as possible.

As for auto discovery, we have a rudimentary form of this in place. Spreading of the software agent is manual, but its as easy as running it on a new server to get it up and running. The data reporting and metrics all begin automatically.