benchmarks, perfmon, monitoring

[Guest SPiderman]

Hi,

What does everyone recommend for perfmon, benchmarks, db monitoring, and

server alerting for down issues?

 

I like sitescope but it isn't in the budget. I heard what's up gold is

decent, but sitescope is much better.

We have MOM now but it isn't giving us what we need/want and we want a

product that will hit unix/linux as well.

How about getting stats on servers that seem to start crawling a specific

time of day? I can't tell if it is the server memory or the application?

Some apps are oracle db's, some are sql db's? What is the best approach?

Would a product like Sandra Software http://www.sisoftware.net/ help out?