It’s tough to imagine a better response to this application.  People love it.

Once you have this program installed, it is as simple as selecting a computer and choosing the services to monitor.  Once this is done, anytime your services are no longer running, you get an email.

There are too many products to list, but I can think of quite a few that I have personally run into that have a service installed on a server and if that service stops, that application quits logging, or working.  This can be a silent killer because in the computer services business, a log is extremely important.

If an application is running, but the logging service stopped or crashing, it may be days, weeks, or longer before you find out.  Try explaining that to your customer or boss if an incident happens and you didn’t do your job.

I can think of both URL filtering products and Event Log tracking products that have these kind of logs.  If the logging service stops running, the application still keeps churning away, but there are no logs.

Services Monitor is the answer to this problem and it does an excellent job.  It also comes with a special license permitting you to install the application on two machines.  The purpose of the second installation is to monitor the first.  This way, if the Services Monitor application service will to stop unexpectedly, you will know right away.  This is the built-in self checking system and it works wonderfully.

I’m expecting it’s release tomorrow!

Zachary M. Morvik