After one year of running nagios with the bischeck plug-in we could not be happier!

A business critical integration may seem to be working when normal monitoring is used but by monitoring business processes related to the integration (ex via SQL) over time and saving that data we are able to define threshold values for the monitored process.

When values deviate too far from the threshold we will receive an early warning and can act pro-actively where we previously did not know about the problem until our end-users raised the alarm.

This allows us to solve or prepare for potential problems before they can impact the business.