Have been using <a href="http://copperegg.com" rel="nofollow">http://copperegg.com</a> probes for a while. I'd suggest them too. They have 15 second checks with various notifications.
Is it designed for a much larger screen than mine (1280x800 at the moment, the max on my laptop)? I have both horizontal and vertical scroll bars showing up, even when putting it to fullscreen, and some areas still overlap so I cannot see the content (that "sort monitors" section for example).<p>Otherwise I set up two monitors, look interesting, useful, and well done! Good job!
We used this at the place I work, but we reached the 50 site limit quickly and were baffled that there was no pay-for-more option.<p>Anyway, we ended up using StatusCake[1] instead, if anyone is looking for an alternative with more features and less restrictions.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.statuscake.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.statuscake.com/</a>
I really like the design and I am trying it with a couple of tests, but it seems to be reporting the opposite of reality. Shows one of my sites as down though it says Keyword Found and it shows the response time, while another one which is really down is shown as up:<p><a href="http://cl.ly/image/1Y1U3b0z2U0U" rel="nofollow">http://cl.ly/image/1Y1U3b0z2U0U</a><p><a href="http://cl.ly/image/3c0e38312a2W" rel="nofollow">http://cl.ly/image/3c0e38312a2W</a><p>edit: If it is of any use for debugging, these sites' IDs are: 775909552 (up) and 775909549 (down).
Kinda-sorta-related: 10 years ago this month, I quit my job to finish my first product: a server monitoring system that I ultimately never launched. I did a little writeup of it earlier this year: <a href="http://sigma-star.com/blog/post/esonar-resurrection" rel="nofollow">http://sigma-star.com/blog/post/esonar-resurrection</a><p>So every time I see a post, ad or anything about server monitoring systems, it makes me smile. It's one of those projects that everyone has: "One of these days, I'll work on it."
I have been using this for a while on my servers. For some months, I had Pingdom and Uptime Robot monitor the same server. According to my experience, the latter has less false positives - with Pingdom, it sometimes looked as if it was monitoring its own network congestion, and not the availability of my websites.<p>Uptime Robot also has an API like Pingdom, but with the added benefit you can monitor up to 50 websites for free. The API allows me to almost never log in to the control panel, as I watch the status using my custom monitoring panels.
If you have something critical to monitor, my advice is to stay away from Uptime Robot. I've used them for a couple years along side my Pingdom checks. They often don't deliver notifications. My last notification is ".... resource is down. We'll notify you when it's back up." That was 10 days ago and it was down for a few minutes. I was never notified of it coming back up. This is just typical. It's also common that I never get a notification of a down resource, too.
One benefit of using this over Pingdom: they have a location in outside of the US and Europe (Singapore). If a networking issue causes your site to appear down for Japan, China or India Pingdom won't know.
Looks like the front-end still needs some polishing. A cursory glance shows a type (My Settings -> Add Alert Contact -> Mobile (SMS) "...that suppor it..." , multiple clicks on the main logo pull up multiple "Loading" messages.<p>Also, I find it odd that the interface is > 1280px wide(at least it is for me presently). I'm not used to a horizontal scroll on a 13" MBP.<p>Overall, if it turns up less false positives than Pingdom, I'll be happy.
My old company made an uptimerobot app a couple years ago, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/uptimerobot/id549265163?mt=8" rel="nofollow">https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/uptimerobot/id549265163?mt=8</a>
<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tw.mowd.uptimerobot" rel="nofollow">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tw.mowd.uptime...</a><p>No idea if it still works, assume it does!
Anyone know of a service like this with good Pager Duty integration? I've previously used Pingdom (which doesn't), and I'd happily make the switch.
I use pingdom tools (with sms notifications), port-monitor.com, think i'll add this to them as well. Never hurts to have a few things checking sites.<p>One thing this is missing is being able to look for a string on a page. (either checking it is there (like "Loaded"/"Latest Posts"...something to indicate all is working fine), or checking it isn't there (like "error", "database connection error" etc)
Interesting...I created an MVP off of a domain I bought a few years ago called <a href="http://www.uptimebot.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.uptimebot.com</a><p>It has been on the back burner for a bit now because I wasn't able to get traction/vistors onto the site...I guess maybe I should figure out what I was doing wrong.
They seem to be having some odd errors in the signup that prevent it from showing it actually processed. Did get an email asking to verify the account so it sounds like its only a client side problem... seeing an error from jquery validation.
I've been using it for about a year and it works well, haven't gotten any false positives yet.<p>It can do keyword checking as well as standard ping + port connect.<p>That's about all it does, which is fine by me.<p>It's free and it works.
Have been using this service since the time id had pretty bad UI, was correct each time with most updates to SMS via Twitter in India. Now, the UI is amazing, though we use it only for few seconds.
I already love it, better than Pingdom.<p>FYI: I'd be willing to pay for SMS alerts (should be "straight forward" with Twilio) or might just work by linking the custom RSS feed to IFTTT...
Does signup work for you guys?<p>I get this in the console:<p>Uncaught TypeError: Object #<error> has no method 'call' jquery.validate.min.js:2