Can anyone recommend a good Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) tool?

Question

We are looking for a flexible Business Activity Monitoring package affordable enough for the average SMB and that can integrate reasonably well with our .NET applications (SOAP/REST interface is just fine).

I am aware that BizTalk has a BAM component, but we are not interested in using BizTalk as a messaging solution and I hate to buy a BizTalk license and get saddled with the heft of BizTalk just for the integrated BAM capabilities.

Ideally we are looking for a BAM solution that is middleware/vendor agnostic.

The alternative to buying a BAM package is, of course, building a customized BAM solution, but I'd like to reserve that option as a last resort.

I'm interested in any experiences, positive or negative, you may have had using a commercial (or open source) BAM product.

Answer 1

i don't see anything non-monolitic on google, so at the risk of being downvoted for self-promotion, if your system is composed of .NET applications that you wrote and you need fine-grained control over the monitoring, you might find CALM to be a good starting place, as it is very customizable. And if it needs to do something that it doesn't do, the author is quite reasonable about assisting with extreme customization; I'm sure he'd be delighted to hear about your specific issues.

caveat: I am the author of CALM

Answer 2

Have a look at www.bizsensors.com its a Operational Bi product and was featured in Gartners Report on Open source BAM.

Answer 3

WSO2 BAM is the only one currently active, I guess.

http://wso2.org/projects/bam

Thanks, Ran.

Answer 4

http://wso2.org/blog/sumedha/9008 - An example on using WSO2 BAM to monitor a business data service. Thanks, Sumedha

Answer 5

You can find the slides of recent webinar on WSO2 Business Activity Monitor here - http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=wso2-bam-v003-100104060114-phpapp01&stripped_title=wso2-business-activity-monitor

/sumedha

Answer 6

You can have a look at Progress Actionnal, it has an extremly low performance impact, is transparent, can monitor activity even with protocol disruption...

Progress seems to have a new offer related to BAM, BPM, CEP called RPM which could be interresting.

Answer 7

WSO2 BAM is the only one that is currently active. It seems that you submit data into the software via a HTTP call. There doesn't seem to be any developer nice-to-haves like .Net attributes to make it very easy for send events to WSO2 BAM.