Question

Currently we have many applications, where each application has its own error notification and reporting mechanism, so we clearly have many problems:

• Lack of consistent error monitoring across different systems/applications: different GUIs, interfaces, different messages, etc.
• Different approaches for error notification per application (many applications use email notifications, other applications publish messages to queue, etc.).
• Separated configuration settings for reporting and monitoring per application: notification frequency, message recipients, etc.

You could add many other issues to the list, but the point is clear. Currently there is a plan to develop a custom application or service to provide a consistent and common solution for this situation.

Anyway, I am not sure if it is a good idea to create a custom application for this, I am sure that there should be a framework, platform or an existing solution or product (preferentially open source) that already solves this problem, so my question is: do you know what project or product to check before deciding to create our custom application?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Depending on how much information is written to application logs, you could consider using Hyperic. It’s open source and has a lot of the features you are looking for.

http://www.hyperic.com/