title: What are the pros and cons of BizTalk 2010+ for monitoring use and performance of web services
body: <p>I am struggling to evaluate BizTalk; I need to understand the advantages and disadvantages of using BizTalk to monitor the use and performance of (WCF) web services.</p>
  
  <p>Besides the obvious cost and learning curve of picking up a new technology are there any specific disadvantages in using BizTalk as a web service performance monitoring tool? </p>
  
  <p>I have seen a demo of WSO2 ESB which shows some nice graphs with the use of services its providing a facade for. Is there anything akin to that in BizTalk? </p>
  
  <p>Sticking with one vendor is an appealing prospect and we are <em>(mostly)</em>* an all Microsoft environment but are there any other key advantages to using BizTalk, anything it offers that isn't available elsewhere? Or anything it is a clear market leader in?</p>
  
  <p><strong>Edit</strong><br>
  * I say mostly all Microsoft because we do not use SCOM; instead we have Nagios and Cactai </p>