Does anyone have any experience using a website monitoring tool that you actually like? I've tried mon.itor.us, and it pretty much sucks. The UI is horrendous and the pricing is kind of inconsistent. I just want a service to request an HTML page once per minute (preferably from multiple sites), and send me a text message or email if and when it fails. Nothing fancy necessary.

I've always liked statcounter.com for traffick, easy to use and has a lot of data. Donno if that's what you're looking for tho

don't know if this is what you were looking for "Google Analytics" [http://www.google.com/analytics/]

Quote: Original post by Koobazaur
I've always liked statcounter.com for traffick, easy to use and has a lot of data. Donno if that's what you're looking for tho

Quote: Original post by projectghost
don't know if this is what you were looking for "Google Analytics" [http://www.google.com/analytics/]

Are you guys dense or something? He's not looking for statistics on visitor count or analysis of his traffic, he is looking for a tool that warns him when one of his websites/domains/servers goes down.

well he said "website monitoring" and stated that he hates his current choice, so I suggested other ones. website monitoring means a lot of things

As for the second part "I just want a service to request an HTML page once per minute (preferably from multiple sites), and send me a text message or email if and when it fails. Nothing fancy necessary." - you can whip out something yourself in like 5 mins using PHP, CRON Jobs and SMTP if you're on a LAMP server.

Quote: Original post by Koobazaur
well he said "website monitoring" and stated that he hates his current choice, so I suggested other ones. website monitoring means a lot of things

As for the second part "I just want a service to request an HTML page once per minute (preferably from multiple sites), and send me a text message or email if and when it fails. Nothing fancy necessary." - you can whip out something yourself in like 5 mins using PHP, CRON Jobs and SMTP if you're on a LAMP server.

Well no he can't because he's obviously not waiting for the HTML devil to automagically make his website fail, it's more of something to tell you when your server's down and that usually means that your php/other code aint running or in some cases not even the OS =)

I like Monit. Not only does it warn you, but it can also fix it for you in many cases. I run two instances. One on my server to monitor and restart services. One on a remote location in case the entire server goes down.

We use hobbit for internal monitoring and atwatch for external monitoring, they both work really well.

We use http://www.internetvista.com/ at home. It's been working fine for our purposes

Hi
I'm using "100pulse" for monitoring my website, They may fulfill your requirement