[83517] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: recommendations for 3rd party web site monitoring
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Davidson)
Wed Aug 17 15:05:22 2005
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 20:04:57 +0100
From: Andy Davidson <andy@nosignal.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3CB5335E037F5544BA279A8DB9B52C3C2000E1@dc-mail.onelegal.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Matt Bazan wrote:
> In need of external 3rd party site monitoring solution. Nothing fancy.
> Need to be alerted if site (HTTP/S, SMTP, TCP connect based) goes down
> (email, pager). Off list fine, thanks.
http://www.alertsite.com/ give us http availability which we can
configure to alert us in a number of ways. Also give us very useful
performance statistics aggregated from a day and weekly statistics, by
email in human readable and XML form (which means pulling it out of the
mail and dropping it into a database is handy.)
For maximum offsite monitoring, a colo'd box with nagios is likely to be
most flexible, but time consuming to setup and get right (as soon as you
have something which can be turned into a powerful monitoring system,
you will want it to perform exactly that task !)
Let us know what you finally do,
-a
