Maybe I'm missing something but this just looks like log analysis (akin to Splunk) and not actually server monitoring? (active health checks, notifications, snmp, etc)
Pricing seems wonky too...is it cheating the licensing model to aggregate logs on a single syslog server and submit from a single agent?
Log analysis is the heart of the product, but we also gather system metrics, provide notifications (scalyr.com/helpalerts), and we recently rolled out a basic active-checks feature (scalyr.com/helpMonitors). There's lots more to be done; for instance, we don't have any SNMP support today. But the vision is to be a full-spectrum tool, and we're actively working toward that.
As for the licensing model: we're going to move to per-GB pricing anyway, so no worries there. If you'd like something more concrete today, e-mail us at contact@scalyr.com and I'm sure we can sort out any pricing concerns.
Regarding the pricing, we're in the process of revising the pricing structure so that it's based more on volume instead of how many servers you have. In that case, you wouldn't need to cheat. :)
This is interesting for us as well... We currently have "only" 50 servers (mostly virtual) that need to be monitored, a per-server pricing would push the cost far too high regardless of the quality of the solution.
May I email you about this? The pricing structure will be changed soon to accommodate cases like yours--there are many of them--so if that's the only thing keeping you from trying Scalyr then I'd love to chat.
We've already started using a competitor's product (Logentries) and we're happy with it, so we're not looking to Scalyr or other log management solutions at the moment. Thanks for listening to feedback though!
