| Hi meaty, You are right, most APM tools are working on covering multiple platforms. We are trying to provide extra depth into the Windows Server platform because thats what we know (for example, I used to be the PM for IIS 7 / ASP.NET). Our goal is to be able to help you with more than just giving you the info to monitor your apps, but really give you the expert analysis of it. A better example is, you might hire a consultant to help you tune up your app, or have your developers get training on performance tuning. Those developers will then potentially use New Relic or Redgate tools to support them in doing their work. In our world, you just use our product and receive that level of expertise automatically from our service. Without having to hire those consultants or have your engineers spend their time learning about the insides of IIS. Re: leaking information. If you are not comfortable with leaking information, you are not using the new SAAS APM tools like us or New Relic. Thats certainly your tradeoff to make. I have to say though, we worked really hard to make sure we dont collect sensitive data: - We dont load a profiler/debugger into your application like most other APMs (e.g. New Relic). We collect only external information, which does include errors/stack traces but no data/code/cookies/etc. - We provide a mode where our monitoring service is sandboxed to a non-production vm in your environment, so nothing to install on prod servers. Re: scale. We've handled Viddy.com, Vevo.com, etc. Are you larger? We do a lot of engineering to reduce the data volume and process it effectively while maintaining high resolution. Tell us what your specs are and we can tell you if we can do it. Best,
Mike |