Monday, July 27, 2009

A new network and systems monitoring site from Monitis, which contains wiki articles and blog about different aspects of systems and network monitoring.

Monday, July 20, 2009

Monitis launched new free broken-links monitoring service - Links-Checker. Links-Checker provides the following benefits for website owners, webmasters and web administrators: 1. Free, unlimited URL checks, 2. Free and unlimited email and instant messenger broken link notifications. 3. Possibility to get SMS alert notifications right on mobile phones. 4. Instant deployment, no software, so server setup, no maintenance needed. 5. Constant product updates seamless for end users 6. Increased page load speed by removing requests to missed images, css style sheets. Often users add third party libraries which may contain images, icons which maybe missed but browser still request them each time. Removing such request may improve performance. 7. Detects dysfunctional pages by identifying missed JavaScript or flash files or libraries so early detect possible broken functionality 8. Improved user experience by detecting broken page design due to missed images and style sheets. 9. Don't get penalized by search engines with reduced page ranking due to 404 errors. More at http://links-checker.com

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Mon.itor.us is a comprehensive online site monitoring and tracking service which not only warns you when your website is down but also provides statistics of your website’s uptime, downtime, visitor traffic and more. It provides a lot of information about your site and web server that helps you maintain a high uptime.

Monday, July 13, 2009

Monitis SaaS Customers Advantages

Monitis is a premier provider of Systems Monitoring Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). SaaS solution offers customers many advantages:

  1. Rapid instant application deployment
  2. Enable high levels of user adoption, easy-to-use, quick learning
  3. No capital Expanses (capex), easy decision making and approval.
  4. Lower total cost of ownership (TCO). In case of multi-tenant application multiple users are sharing common infrastructure and software.
  5. Extensive features, functionality and configurability.
  6. Pay as you go, pay for what you use, easy plan upgrade.
  7. No server, no software setup.
  8. Secure, scalable and reliable delivery platform.
  9. Always latest version of software.
  10. Innovative software with frequent updates.

On-demand EC2 Monitoring

Monitis on-demand Amazon EC2 monitoring includes the following features: 1) monitor status of launched Amazon virtual server instances and trigger events and notifications 2) monitor total number of running servers in Amazon cloud and inform users when number exceed certain threshold 3) Automatically start monitoring of newly launched servers based on user-rules. Start monitoring web servers, databases, mail servers, TCP ports, telnet and SSH access and more dynamically without need to manually add each monitor and notification rules per server 4) Automatically install Monitis agent on new servers and start monitoring server performance metrics and resource utilization: CPU, memory, storage and processes. Again notification rules can be enabling to inform about low resource situation. It will help to predict and prevent possible outages 5) server failure notice. There is always a possibility to lose server in Amazon cloud, users can be early notified about such case and can take measures. 6) Virtual servers configuration monitoring. More at http://monitorcloud.com/monitorcloud

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Monitis Launches Cloud Monitoring Service

Latest Monitis service automates Amazon EC2 monitoring

Press Release

San Jose 12 May, 2009 - Monitis launches industry's first deep EC2 monitoring service. Monitis Cloud Monitor records instantiations and terminations of virtual server instances, automatically configures Monitis agents for deep fault, performance and configuration monitoring, and provisions external availability monitoring.

Cloud computing enable companies to attain scale on demand and hence reduced capital investments. Amazon's Web Services package is the market leader for on demand dedicated server provisioning and cloud computing. Virtual machine instantiation in Amazon EC2 is a minute and click away. Both startups and established companies are increasingly leveraging EC2 in their production systems. EC2 allows companies to scale to unlimited servers and payment can be tied to actual usage instead of monthly contracts. Users can run 20 servers per 1 hour or 1 server per 20 hour at the same cost. Software can launch additional services on demand including ability to scale when it experiences heavy load. This has potential to create following problems for the administrator: 1) cost escalation due to uncontrolled service launch and 2) inability for monitoring service to handle dynamic server instantiation.

Monitis Cloud Monitor provides control over services running in EC2 by leveraging Amazon's API for automated service management. Cloud Monitor leverages AWS account detail to regularly poll active instances, record changes in instance (start/stop) and executes user defined rules & actions including: ability to issue alerts, and setup additional internal/external monitors for new instances. Monitis automatically configures its agent for probing server CPU, load, storage, and processes resource utilization. Monitis service provisions external http, ping, database and/or custom monitoring. An example of custom monitoring include notification rules such as "notify if greater than 5 instances are running", "add an agent for every new instance, start CPU & storage monitoring, and notify if CPU utilization is more than 80%", etc.

"There is tremendous growth in on demand cloud computing and we see growing need for explicit cloud monitoring" said Hovhannes Avoyan, "with our customer first policy, we are here to address the need and we provide fast, easy, affordable tool". Monitis Cloud Monitor is web centric software and no downloads are required. The service is expected to be used both by both and IT service providers.

About Monitis Performance Monitor

Monitis Performance Monitor is industry leading comprehensive, affordable, scalable, fault and performance management platform.  Monitis Performance Monitor monitors, collects and analyzes information from websites, servers, routers, switches, VoIP devices, DNS, databases, processes and any other IP devices providing users with a comprehensive view of their system health.  Open sourced Monitis plug-in with powerful API's allow users to extend Monitis powerful monitoring and management capabilities.  Users can be assured of always on reliable service as Monitis Performance Monitor is deployed across the world providing resilient service.

About Monitis

Monitis is a leading provider of affordable performance monitoring and management solution. More than 50,000 customers spanning small businesses, Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and education institutions have chosen Monitis to reduce system downtime, improve IT administrator productivity, and reduce operational expenditure.  Monitis is radically changing system monitoring and management landscape by providing easy to use, affordable, flexible (deployment configurations include: shared, internal cloud and external cloud), and simple to manage SaaS performance monitoring and management solution. For more information, please visit http://www.monitis.com

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