External Site Monitoring Services

External Site Monitoring Services

Uptime Party - Web server monitoring for small business or personal web sites.Sends message if it's down, and when it's back up. Notifications via email or cell phone. Free for one server. $ for more than one, and monitoring is every 15 or 30 minutes.

Watchmouse - Site monitoring service includes website preformance monitoring (checks web servers continuously from over 20 locations worldwide), functionality monitoring (monitor transactions of up to 20 steps/1MB with a single script), periodic vulnerability scanning. (new vulnerabilities added daily, detailed security reports), and external automated load testing service.

SiteUpTime - Basic plan for monitoring one web site is free; others $. Highly configurable service options, multiple monitoring locations around the world; if more than one location detects a connection failure a notification is sent.

Panopta Advanced Server Monitoring-Web site monitoring service and outage management system from Panopta LLC for online businesses and service providers, with the ability to detect outages immediately, provide notifications, andprovide a team the right tools to resolve the outage quickly. Checks services every 60 seconds using global monitoring network.

Pingdom - Server, network and website monitoring services from Pingdom AB. Includes current and historical reporting; world-wide network of monitoring servers; checks every 1-60 mins.

Site 24x7 -Monitoring of website uptime & performance from multiple geographical locations; monitor multi-step web applications or e-business transactions; monitor DNS servers & email server round-trip time; instant alerts for any downtime or threshold violations; email/SMS alerts and reports. Also available are free accounts with limited services for personal use.

WebSitePulse -Monitoring service from WebSitePulse. Simultaneous monitoring from up to 20 global stations; alerts sent when web page errors occur, performance thresholds are exceeded or connectivity problems are detected and verified from up to three independent monitoring resources, and when unauthorized content changes are detected. Supports cookies; monitors and verifies file size, MD5 checksum, present or missing text string. Customizable alert escalation schedules, configurable 'Do Not Disturb' times for contacts. Daily, weekly, monthly e-mailed uptime reports.

SiteMorse - External site monitoring services from SiteMorse - runs a periodic full report - clients can request to be notified if there is any change to the sites scores. Enterprise clients have the option of setting such thresholds on any one of over 300 tests.

YMU -Site monitoring service from Dreamcast Systems, Inc. HTTP, HTTPS, customizable map location selection of monitoring source, graphical reports, configurable periodic check intervals.

Gomez Webperform -A site monitoring, testing, alerting, and reporting service from Gomez.com for small and medium sized business. Basic packages are free, with add-ons available. Provides detailed monitoring data from testing locations across the globe to enable quick isolation and resolution of website performance problems.

eXternalTest -Site monitoring service from eXternalTest. Periodically checks servers from different points of the world; view what customers see with screen shots using different browsers, OSs, and screen resolutions.

Site Notifier -Site monitoring service from Transcendigital Ltd.; configurable for various monitoring intervals, multiple notifications.

Site24x7.com -External site monitoring service from AdventNet, Inc. Check site via HTTP/HTTPS requests at regular intervals; track response time; record/playback a sequence of HTTP requests; be notified when webpages change;alerts via email or SMS; reports.

jaGuard.net -Site monitoring internet service checks site availability at chosen intervals. Choose from 5 various monitoring packages; free trial.Capabilities include false alarm protection; https, secure e-mail server monitoring, SSH, and certificate verification.

Global Up Time -HTTP/HTTPS website monitoring service from Global Web Monitor; configurable frequency, alerting, and reporting options; false alarm protection. Server monitoring, website monitoring, network appliance monitoring, business transaction monitoring, port monitoring and port security monitoring.

internetVista - Service from Lyncos remotely monitors web sites and Internet services for availability (http, https, smtp, ftp, pop, nntp, tcp). Notifications sent via email and SMS. Monitoring centers in U.S. and Europe. Free service also available, with limited features.

Host Tracker - Site monitoring service from Host Tracker; monitor an unlimited number of resources, distributed monitoring points, possible monitoring of CGI scripts' operation, keyword presence control, can specify keywords by regular expressions, unlimited number of addresses for server error notifications, historical statistics.

AppMonitor - Transactional application monitoring service from Webmetrics. Simulates defined web transactions, such as customer logins and purchase order fulfillment, up to every five minutes to verify application availability and performance. Service includes full-page download of all page objects, breakdown of DNS, first byte and transfer times at various baud rates, alerting, performance reporting and benchmark comparisons. Also available is 'SiteMonitor' service for non-transactional websites.

Dotcom-Monitor - Web site monitoring and load testing services utilizemultiple worldwide locations. Checks content and response times; provides reporting and notifications. Free 'Lifetime Lite' monitoring service available.

Vertain Monitoring Service -Services from Vertain Software include verification that web site is up and running and that users can complete multi-page transactions. Also available: Free service for up to six tests per day.

AlertBot -Monitoring service from InfoGenius, Inc. tests website availablity,performance, and alerts webmaster of downtime. Also provides ftp, http, pop3, snmp, https, smtp, ip, and dns server monitoring.

WebSitePulse -Remote web site and server monitoring service with instant alerts and real time reporting. Simulates end-user actions from multiple locations around the globe. Web transaction monitoring available.Free basic service available.

1stMonitor -Site monitoring service notifies when a web site isdown or new content has been posted. Easy and simple to use. Email notification. Weekly and monthly reports; instant setup.

SiteTechnician -Service of SiteTechnician LLC, identifies broken links, analyzes accessibility, reports on search engine optimization, monitors page load times and provides eight reports to help manage changes to website content over time.

WatchOur.com -Web site monitoring service from PingALink LLC; remotely monitorswebsites and other Internet protocol servers for availability and performance issues. Sends detailed error codes via pager, email, ICQ, etc. RFC compliant protocol checks assure valid monitoring. Extensive reporting.

AlertSite -Web site monitoring tools and services to ensure websiteis available and performing optimally. Immediate notificationof problems via e-mail, pager, cell, or SMS. Comprehensive reporting.

elkMonitor -Service from Elk Fork Technologies for websites and other Internet servers; monitors availability and performance. Utilizing multiple test servers located onvarious Internet backbones, elkMonitor can alert users when sites or servers are unavailable or performing poorly. Alerts via email, pager or SMS alert.

WebPartner Test and Performance Center-Load testing, stress testing and transaction diagnostic tools from WebPartner for websites, J2EE & .NET web applications, and XML/SOAP web services. Includes a browser based script recorder that allows automatic test script creation. Available as a Hosted/ASP version, as downloadable software fro Windows, and as a Software Appliance.

AlertMeFirst -Service from Commerx Corp. reports on the performance and availability of a web site from customer's perspective; including experience with mail server, proxy server, transaction server, databases, etc. Flexible design allows changes to monitoring profile at any time and payment is required only for services used each day.

PureAgent -Service from Minq Software that monitors response times from the agent to a server, by replaying transactions at specified intervals. This includes static and dynamic web applications as well as other server applications. Capabilities include specifying limited access for certain users (such as historical stats only), encryption of stored scenarios,and viewing/downloading of raw XML definitions of Scenarios/Activities.

Dotcom-Monitor -External website monitoring/alerting/load testing service from Dana Consulting. Monitoring locations worldwide. Supports full-cycle sequential transactions; 'macro recorder' capabilities for setting up monitoring of complex web site processes such as online ordering; monitoring of sites, email and FTP services, DNS and router monitoring; includes a wide variety of online and downloadable reporting tools.

SiteGuardian -Site monitoring solution provides 24x7 monitoring of downtime, user experience, and application problems. Configururable notification method and intervals.

Patrol Express -Service from BMC Software continuously simulates and measures end-to-end customer web site experience. Monitors performance and availability of servers, applications and storage and network devices. Also monitors performance and availability of Web transactions. Compares performance and availability to user-defined goals.

WatchDog -Online website tracking and monitoring services from MyComputer.com geared to small business web sites. Provides uptime and load time reports, downtime alerts, etc. Distributed monitoring from five U.S. sites.

SiteScope - Mercury's hosted Web-based monitoring service; agentless monitoring solution designed to ensure the availability and performance of distributed IT infrastructures including servers, operating systems, network devices, network services, applications.

Keynote Application Perspective- Hosted performance and availability monitoring services and root cause diagnostics from Keynote Systems. Utilizes a distributed geographic measurement network for comprehensive end-user coverage.Provides advanced scripting tools with functionality for complex transaction recording and ad-hoc diagnosis.