13 Website Monitoring Tools To Help Prevent Downtime
How many times have you thought about whether your website is experiencing downtime? Most of the time we tend to get paranoid over these things and we actually can’t blame ourselves. If your website is down then you’re likely losing out all of your potential customers. It’s really that simple.
Having a website means that your business is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This is one of the advantages in setting up your online business. What you need to do is make sure that your business really never sleeps. In this article we’re going to take a look at some of the tools available to monitor your website.
Are My Sites Up?
Mon.itor.us
Host Tracker
Best Website Monitoring Tool
NetMechanic
KeepNi
WebSitePulse
Montastic
MonitorTools
AlertSite
Site24x7
SiteUptime
Alertra
I signed up for a free account at Are My Sites Up and so far everything is doing good. Do you have any experience that you would like to share with one of the tools I’ve listed? Did I forget any of your favorite website monitoring tools? If so, please feel free to leave your comments below. Thank you for reading.
I use Are My Sites Up? and it seem to work fine. Not that you’d know if it didn’t report something while you were asleep. I do get an email letting me know if my site is down and then another when it’s back up. I save the emails as a way to compare my hosting over time.
I haven’t tried any of the other services, though it might be interesting to try a couple of them and compare.
Pingdom is a good sevice. I am using it for about a year. One of the great things at the time when I was subscribing for their service is that they were giving first year for really cheap money. Could be still the case!
I switched to AlertFox recently, as they offer FREE transaction monitoring. That means you can not only check if your site is up, but also if it works ok. In my case I check the sign-up and contact forms via the iMacros scripts (free2 package).
Francis
Try out microNOC – free monitoring with email only notification, paid monitoring of full domains for about $4.85 a month with multiple email and SMS alerts included. Also one of the simplest out there – no learning curve what so ever, just signup with your domain, professional techs do the setup and you are off and running.
Plus they just started contributing portion of annual contracts to charities – very cool and inclusive.
Are My Sites Up? is my favorite tool, but i would love it when the free service contains more features.
I will suggest also http://www.monitis.com they are currently running campaign with 50% discount for the first year or first month, I can share with you the code to get this discount “EC5TH72″. As far as I know campaign will be active till 19th of June.
Hi,
Great collection… You could also consider adding http://100pulse.com – Free Website Monitoring Service, monitor site uptime downtime with 5 min interval, Free Instant email alerts, customizable templates, RSS feeds and so on…
cheers for the list. my pref is siteuptime.
This is a good list but it lack some really good services: watchmouse.com, alertbot.com and http://www.dotcom-monitor.com
If I’m not mistaken all 3 offer free packages and free trial periods.
Nice post. Thanks. Mon.itor.us looks nice.
Wonderful list. But the website monitoring service, http://100pulse.com/ can also be included..
That’s a nice list you have there and some that I certainly didn’t know about.
Of course … I have to plug our own service here too. So here goes.
We’ve just launched Sentinel Monitoring (well, a couple of months ago now) http://www.sentinelmonitoring.com and it does a whole bunch of really cool stuff from just the simple checks like PING, HTTP, HTTPS, POP3 etc right through to actual serverside checks like checking to see how much diskspace you have remaining, or how much memory your server is using, if the MySQL database is actually running and more. These work on both Windows and Linux based servers too.
We’ve wrapped it up in an incredibly simple and sexy interface, we have a rang of alert methods from that include Twitter Direct Messages and iPhone push notifications via Prowl and to cap it off we have a free month trial for anyone that wants to check it out.
Thanks for letting me add this comment in and if any of your readers would like to check us out that would be superb and please feel free to get in touch if you have any questions at all.
I promise I’m not a spammy person, but Sentinel is really cool and is a really good option for anyone looking for this sort of service.
All the best everyone.
Mark Shingleton
Sentinel Monitoring.
Some of the cost-free website monitoring plans are every bit as good if not more suitable compared to several of the paid monitoring companies…
Hi. Any idea if any of these tools can do something like… our server ping them every minute and if this service did not get any ping from us, they will send us an alert? Thanks!
@liza, That is exactly what most of them do
we can do that via our agent, so you install our agent and start your pings, so if there is no ping over some time you will be alerted.
Good list of sites ..Monitorscout is also an extremely reliable monitoring service Expert monitoring in a beta-version and it’s FREE, which offers high quality monitoring services with over 15 monitoring locations across the globe to control uptime and latency for your website and/or server solution.