GroundWork Launches Hub for Open Source Monitoring Developers

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Before I share details about GroundWork’s move, I want to point out that there are pros and cons to both open source and closed source. I don’t believe one size fits all. But I do believe aggressive collaboration — beyond traditional in-house development teams — is the norm going forward.

Now, the actual news: GroundWork has launched MonitoringForge, which the company calls “the epicenter of all open source projects that relate to IT monitoring.”

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I understand why GroundWork is messaging mainly to IT administrators: That’s a massive audience. But I think the company should have expanded its messaging to include VARs and MSPs, many of whom are still trying to decide how to monitor and manage customer systems.

I’m also hopeful that we’ll see MonitoringForge and other sites become launching pads for open source plugins that work with closed source RMM and PSA (professional services automation) software. Remember: Some of the most successful software stacks in the world — Oracle on Linux, MySQL on Windows Server — blend open source and closed source. I expect the same trend to play out in the managed services space.

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