Monitor Uptime

Do you know of any good ways to monitor the uptime of one or more websites? Maybe a simply program that would run on any computer and automatically call up the site to see if it is up at regular intervals, or something like that.

I'm not looking for something that would run on the server. I'm looking for something that would be able to monitor uptime from a third-party perspective.

Do you have any suggestions? How do you monitor the uptime of your websites?

Thanks,
Scott

 

Here are loads of ideas: http://www.google.com/search?q=site+monitoring

I don't have experience with any of them. I just stay logged into my sites via ssh 24x7 and never sleep. Works for me

 

I found a free software program called Integrio on download.com. It seems to be able to do what I want. I'm using it right now. I'll see how well it works.

Thanks,
Scott

 

Basicstate is OK, but it gives false alarms at times

 

Try pingdom . com that should help you.

 

http://pingdom.com is great if you're looking for a paid solution.

 

I use pingability

 

siteuptime.com is free, and I've heard good things about it. You would have to register multiple accounts for multiple domains (Without paying) though.

 

If you plan on running a group of servers and are worried about the availability, you should look into a full-fledged NMS. That will be able to monitor everything from your disk, cpu and memory usage to network latency or a service restart. Most importantly, it can send you an alert as soon as something is wrong.

I've setup JFFNMS in a couple of places (including a large ISP with over 50 nodes) and tried a couple of others (Nagios, Zabbix, OpenNMS etc.) so there are lots of free solutions available.

For simpler monitoring, you could write a small script that checks the services every few minutes and warns you if something is wrong.

 

Integrio seems to be working fine for me.

 

othewise, you could alternatively, check out host-tracker