Monitoring Tools with Zoom In Capabilities

One thing I learned when purchasing, using or even building a monitoring tool is the following:

"Monitoring Tools with no Zoom In Capabilities are Worthless!"

So make sure not to waste your budget or time in any monitoring tool that does not provide zoom features to exactly trace sources. An example would be an httpd weblog analyzer. With all the fancy reports generated using tools on the web, if I just cant click on the graph and zoom in into more detailed information, then thats a big problem.

I'm happy to monitor thirty people entering my website on thursday, but I would like to zoom in the same graph to see at which hours of the day, further zoom in to see which countries where they from, then further zoom in to see which pages a certain visitor has gone through then further zoom in to see the amount of time he stayed on the website. Thats what monitoring tools all about.

Same goes to network monitoring tools, same goes to employee monitoring tools, task tracking tools, code analyzing tools, its just that, you either have a built-in magic zoom button or stop soliciting your monitoring software.