Website monitoring is the process of testing and verifying that end-users can interact with a website or web application. Website monitoring are systems that allow you to track your website, or if the services of your host, housing or dedicated server working properly.
Why we need Website Monitoring?
Nowadays it seems that almost every one has a website or a blog, but what if you need someone to inform us you your site is down and the end-users can reach your website/blog? So what do you do when you are stuck with such a problem, that is why you will need monitoring services to ensure that a website is available to users and downtime is minimized.
Website Monitors check the availability and performance of the pages of your Web application and the applications manager verifies that the pages of your website to be accessible. If they are not accessible, notifications are sent, and you can activate corrective actions. The function of monitoring the performance of Web sites check different attributes like response time. For example, you can add a URL to be monitored, as http://mycompany.com , its possible to set a threshold for a web page, so that if the load time of the page is more than 5 seconds, you will be notified by e-mail or SMS. The Monitor helps to take prompt action before the problem takes effect on end users.
By monitoring the URL, retrieves the Web page and its contents. The completion of the recovery of the page ensures that the web server is running properly. In addition to that, monitoring helps verify that the URL of the CGI script and the database back-end work properly.
There are various services available but those less demanding both free and paid and are listed below and are suitable for websites with few pretensions.Site-Monitoring.NET - Site-Monitoring.NET is totally free monitoring service. This service will alerted you by sending notification to you by email or SMS , the same moment your website has technical difficulties, it's not responding or is offline. Site-Monitoring will monitor your website on regular periods of time (10, 15, 30 and 60 minutes periods) 24 hours, every day of the week.
Also the Site-Monitoring.NET service users, will receive free website monitoring service, reports and history for a period of two years, by email and SMS notifications in real-time.
Pingdom - With Pingdom, any problem with your website will be discovered the minute it happens. You will be immediately alerted so you can take action before it affects your business. You will also be able to see detailed statistics of your website performance, giving you a historical record of all incidents.
LiveWatch - Livewatch.de offers you in addition to the monitoring server and the server observation of your website, some explanations for key definitions on the subject of reliability and system monitoring.
Observu - Observu monitors your websites from multiple locations and combines it with measurements collected on your servers. Notification by E-mail, SMS and Voice calls will allow you to respond quickly and improve your quality of service dramatically
ServerGuard24 - Serverguard24 offers different server monitoring packages, from Server Availability Monitoring and Server Performance Monitoring to services such as SMS- und Email-Notifications when your server fails all the way to a Server Monitoring iPhone App. Moreover, Serverguard24 offers a report function to allow fault analysis for servers and business processes.
SiteUptime - SiteUptime is a website monitoring service that checks your website or server at regular intervals and notifies you via email or SMS if a problem is detected. Free and Paid plans are available.
Host Tracker - The free plan enables monitoring for two URLs in two different domains. The main issue with the service is that the navigation is hard to work with. It does use the most distributed network of monitoring servers of the services listed, as it currently monitors from over 50 nodes.
Monitor.us - The service is completely free with email alerting. There are basic reports for uptime and response time. The user interface may look simplistic, but the service delivers with a more complete offering than most.
InternetSeer - InternetSeer monitoring systems remotely check your website from several geographic monitoring stations at selected intervals. If the monitoring system is unable to reach the site, an email, cell phone or pager alert is sent to notify you of the problem.
WatchMouse - The free offering monitors one URL and polling every hour. The professional plans look to have some really nice features, but the free plan is fairly limited.
FreeSiteStatus - FreeSiteStatus offers free monitoring of your website or server from our monitoring network around the world, and notifies you of any website downtime.FreeSiteStatus offers is the ability to create one-time or recurring maintenance windows where monitoring of the servers can be suspended.
