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uptimedoctor.com has worked pretty well. I think it is owned by HyperSpin, because the PayPal payments are to HyperSpin.
Was thinking Solarwinds seen as I've used it for years but it's bloody expensive!
Like mentioned pinguzo probably
At my previous job we used SCOM (MS System Center Operations Manager) to monitor ~1000 Windows servers, ~100 *nix servers, switches, SANs, etc, across 5 datacenters.
If you are willing to spend the $$$$ and time to set it up, and integrate it with you ticket-system, mail/sms systems, it's a superb tool.
That's the evolution of MSMQ right? I remember using it on win 2k server 16 years ago
probably overkill 
SCOM is a nightmare in my experience, we use it at work to "monitor" about 10k servers and it throws way too many false alarms for my liking. The GUI is horrible also and unusable unless you have a lot of time and patience to handle a single task (putting a single server in Maintenance Mode is a journey in itself). And regardless how much hardware you throw at it, the slowness is still painful.
It has not improved much then haha, was it msmq or msqm I forget, how time fly's.
We're using Datadog at my job, and we're just trying to set up an annual subscription. However, we'll be in a range of 6,000 dollars for 35 hosts, so I'm very interested in understanding how you came to such a low price.
Is this some custom plan you negotiated with them?
We've been with them since 2011, the pricing scheme has been updated to nefarious prices.
We're price locked into our old price when they used to be cheaper.
If you need a really good person to chat with about DDHQ // Get in touch with jason.yee[at]datadoghq[dot]com
We've used both prtg and zabbix for awhile now. Zabbix is extremely powerful if you're willing to consider hosting it yourself.
cloudstats.me
I used to run prtg, I found it took a lot less admin time than zabbix in a constantly evolving infrastructure, prtg would always be my first choice for self hosted.
We use uptimerobot and updown.io as secondary but use Site24x7 for uptime and server monitoring and have been very impressed, the UI takes some getting used to but once it's setup it works very well
Does anyone know of a monitoring service that has bandwidth monitoring per process?
How, precisely, do you expect something external to do that?
My bad, I thought this was a different thread. I had meant to ask about linux server monitoring services (such as Pinguzo, NodeQuery and NixStats), instead of url uptime monitors.
Happy NecroDay!
I guess if you were prepared to put some effort in you might be able to get a Zabbix agent to do that, maybe with an atop capture.
Not something I would want to get involved in though on any scale.
Anyway, as this has been dug up from the dead now, I should add my conclusions.
PRTG is number 1 for self hosted but also ********* expensive if you do not have access to good licensing.
Monitive is currently the best hosted general monitoring solution by a million miles, thanks @Oliver for the lead on that one a while back.
The one that is most aligned with the hosting world I have seen is being developed by @Awmusic12635 thanks for the early access and opportunity to input, its probably going to be the one I pay for when it is finished.
I'll have to dig at Monitive- I've never given it more than a cursory glance. I still run Monit for my stuff, and it works pretty well for threshholds, levels of priority/etc.
pingthat.com from Stablehost is very excellent. Very accurate.
Is Boundary still a thing? I knew one of the implementers slightly. Looks like it redirect to an BMC site now, so maybe it got acquired. May have always been too expensive to think about at the low end, but:
http://www.bmc.com/truesightpulse
100 sensors in the free version, get a couple of windows installs and spread the sensors between multiple hosts.