Just been to a superb presentation by Lorenzo Rizzi on how the new workflow engines work.  This included how relationships between different entities mean you can roll up health of systems across classes as well as the traditional bubbling up which was great.

 

There's some cool things with correlation as well: you can now say things like "if event a occurs and then event B (different criteria) occur within 30 seconds then change this state and if we dont hear any more from them for the next 45 seconds then change the state back to green".  wow!  And there were many variations on this as well.

 

It's going to be a massive challenge to design custom applicaiton monitoring in new environments - things have gone up about ten fold since MOM 2005 days - but at the moment only experience will tell as its a new product.

 

The deployment guide was released today as well which will make invalauable reading for anyone who is getting started.  You can find a link to it from www.momanswers.net