Minotaur is a complete end to end solution for monitoring BizTalk Server Enterprise solutions. Minotaur is not just any BizTalk Monitoring Tool; it is a vital contributor to ensuring reliable BizTalk solutions from an operational point of view. Minotaur will monitor your entire BizTalk environment proactively and reactively, thereby preventing many errors before they happen and also allowing administrators and operators to react quickly when errors do in fact occur.

At Inobits Inc, we believe that companies should have better leverage and greater return from their choice of technology solutions. Companies have invested large sums of money and a lot of time in acquiring or building integration solutions, a process that is quite often short-circuited by not investing in the operational side once the solutions are live. BizTalk Server as a technology platform and framework is no exception to this.

There are a few good off the shelf products that do BizTalk Server monitoring; with many of them focusing on application specific monitoring and not so much on the environment surrounding the BizTalk Server deployment and the applications running in the environment. This is where Minotaur is different; Minotaur will monitor your BizTalk applications, the applications and services environments surrounding your BizTalk applications and also the environment on which your applications run.

Are you still performing day-to-day BizTalk operational tasks manually? Is continuously checking for suspended messages, making sure if your send ports, receive locations and orchestrations are still running, checking for issues with the BizTalk databases, checking free disk space on all your servers, checking if your ancillary and supporting services are running, scouring the event logs on a daily basis for errors, ensuring the BizTalk SQL agent jobs are running (the list goes on and on) eating up all your valuable time? Valuable time that could have been utilized more effectively? Have Minotaur perform these mundane day-to-day operational monitoring tasks for you.

 

If you're hearing about outages in your integration layer or about delays in message delivery from your users and not your operational personnel, then Minotaur is the product for you.

The Microsoft BizTalk Operations Guide recommends a series of daily, weekly and monthly tasks that need to be performed to ensure you environment remains healthy and performing well. Have Minotaur perform most of these operational monitoring tasks for you and free up your BizTalk operations staff to concentrate on more important tasks.

 

Not only can Minotaur save you money in terms of your operational team's time, but it can also provide you with insight into your environment’s health, ultimately saving you money in terms of potential system downtime.

If you use BizTalk Server in any of your integration solutions, then Minotaur is right for your organization. No environment is too big or too small for Minotaur. Minotaur will monitor you multi-server, clustered, large-scale enterprise BizTalk environment or it will monitor your small one server, one application BizTalk implementation. Contact our sales team today to discuss which Minotaur edition is right for your organization.