Hi All, Anyone have any suggestions on recommended website/IP monitoring tools? There are so many out there and just need help to narrow the list down based on what you're using or have good experience with. Thank you. *_________________________________* *Li Tiatia*
I use and like StatusCake.com as a hosted monitoring provider, and SmokePing as an internally-managed monitoring tool. StatusCake has been reliable, and offers nice features such as worldwide monitoring endpoints, outage confirmation, configurable paging methods and thresholds, etc. They also support different types of monitoring, ranging from a simple ICMP ping to a more complex mix of HTTP(S), keyword monitoring, blocklist monitoring, etc. The pricing is good enough that I've forgotten how much it costs. SmokePing's advantages include (1) it's open source, (2) it's relatively easy to install and configure, (3) it's lightweight enough to run on customer-side Raspberry Pis, (4) it supports extremely fine-grained monitoring (e.g. my endpoints will detect and optionally alert on outages of <5 seconds), and so on. The software is free, as it's open-source, and it could be implemented on a $5/mo VPS at somewhere like DigitalOcean. good luck, Graham Freeman, Principal Nerd NerdVentures.com +1-510-898-6772 graham at nerdventures.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/grahamfreeman Twitter: @get_nerdy
On 11 Feb 02016, at 12:28, Li Tiatia <tiatia at tcnp3.com> wrote:
Hi All, Anyone have any suggestions on recommended website/IP monitoring tools? There are so many out there and just need help to narrow the list down based on what you're using or have good experience with.
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Thank you for the details. Appreciate it. *_________________________________* *Li Tiatia, EVP International Operations* *TCN Inc. Australasia/Oceania/Asia | au.tcnp3.com <http://au.tcnp3.com>* *Direct: tiatia at tcnp3.com <tiatia at tcnp3.com> | AU+61 1300 138 298 | NZ+64 3 668 4210 | US+1800 570 1561* *Support: service at tcnp3.com <service at tcnp3.com> | AU+61 1800 352 478 | NZ+64 3 588 0055* <http://www.facebook.com/tcnp3> <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/l-tiatia/21/322/211> <http://plus.google.com/u/0/+LiTiatia/about> <http://twitter.com/tcn> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Graham Freeman <graham at nerdventures.com> wrote:
I use and like StatusCake.com <http://statuscake.com> as a hosted monitoring provider, and SmokePing as an internally-managed monitoring tool.
StatusCake has been reliable, and offers nice features such as worldwide monitoring endpoints, outage confirmation, configurable paging methods and thresholds, etc. They also support different types of monitoring, ranging from a simple ICMP ping to a more complex mix of HTTP(S), keyword monitoring, blocklist monitoring, etc. The pricing is good enough that I've forgotten how much it costs.
SmokePing's advantages include (1) it's open source, (2) it's relatively easy to install and configure, (3) it's lightweight enough to run on customer-side Raspberry Pis, (4) it supports extremely fine-grained monitoring (e.g. my endpoints will detect and optionally alert on outages of <5 seconds), and so on. The software is free, as it's open-source, and it could be implemented on a $5/mo VPS at somewhere like DigitalOcean.
good luck,
Graham Freeman, Principal Nerd NerdVentures.com <http://nerdventures.com> +1-510-898-6772 graham at nerdventures.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/grahamfreeman Twitter: @get_nerdy
On 11 Feb 02016, at 12:28, Li Tiatia <tiatia at tcnp3.com> wrote:
Hi All, Anyone have any suggestions on recommended website/IP monitoring tools? There are so many out there and just need help to narrow the list down based on what you're using or have good experience with.
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You have pi's deployed on the customer premise running smoke ping ? Great idea, have they been reliable ? I've only played with them - never production. How do you handle managing a pi fleet ? --- Christopher Aloi Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 11, 2016, at 3:36 PM, Graham Freeman <graham at nerdventures.com> wrote:
I use and like StatusCake.com as a hosted monitoring provider, and SmokePing as an internally-managed monitoring tool.
StatusCake has been reliable, and offers nice features such as worldwide monitoring endpoints, outage confirmation, configurable paging methods and thresholds, etc. They also support different types of monitoring, ranging from a simple ICMP ping to a more complex mix of HTTP(S), keyword monitoring, blocklist monitoring, etc. The pricing is good enough that I've forgotten how much it costs.
SmokePing's advantages include (1) it's open source, (2) it's relatively easy to install and configure, (3) it's lightweight enough to run on customer-side Raspberry Pis, (4) it supports extremely fine-grained monitoring (e.g. my endpoints will detect and optionally alert on outages of <5 seconds), and so on. The software is free, as it's open-source, and it could be implemented on a $5/mo VPS at somewhere like DigitalOcean.
good luck,
Graham Freeman, Principal Nerd NerdVentures.com +1-510-898-6772 graham at nerdventures.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/grahamfreeman Twitter: @get_nerdy
On 11 Feb 02016, at 12:28, Li Tiatia <tiatia at tcnp3.com> wrote:
Hi All, Anyone have any suggestions on recommended website/IP monitoring tools? There are so many out there and just need help to narrow the list down based on what you're using or have good experience with.
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Yep, with my managed network customers. I have a small number of customers, each of which is meaningfully profitable, so a $100/year deployment of a Pi with a fancier USB wifi interface is well worth it. I set up reverse SSH sessions (originating from the Pi) to distinct per-customer bastion hosts on my management networks, so that the customer's firewall and/or dynamic-IP issues are non-issues. I use Chef, git, and some shell scripts for config management. I've had 1 Pi fail out of 20. So, reliable enough, though of course not a huge sample size. It's great to be able to say "Hey, customer, I noticed a routing issue impacting your web-based accounting software on your ISP A, so I automatically promoted ISP B to primary for that route. Monitoring (graph screenshot attached) indicates that this was an effective workaround. I'll restore normal routing or promote ISP B to primary off-hours tonight, depending on the outcome of the trouble ticket I've already opened about the issue." before the first tech support call comes in. Similar customer success story when I call them immediately after getting an alert from the Pi-connected UPS informing me of a power outage. This kind of thing makes the next 2-year renewal negotiation an easy one. :) Graham Freeman, Principal Nerd NerdVentures.com <https://nerdventures.com/> +1-510-898-6772 graham at nerdventures.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/grahamfreeman Twitter: @get_nerdy <https://twitter.com/get_nerdy> On 11 February 2016 at 16:26, Chris Aloi <ctaloi at gmail.com> wrote:
You have pi's deployed on the customer premise running smoke ping ? Great idea, have they been reliable ? I've only played with them - never production. How do you handle managing a pi fleet ?
--- Christopher Aloi Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 11, 2016, at 3:36 PM, Graham Freeman <graham at nerdventures.com> wrote:
I use and like StatusCake.com <http://statuscake.com> as a hosted monitoring provider, and SmokePing as an internally-managed monitoring tool.
StatusCake has been reliable, and offers nice features such as worldwide monitoring endpoints, outage confirmation, configurable paging methods and thresholds, etc. They also support different types of monitoring, ranging from a simple ICMP ping to a more complex mix of HTTP(S), keyword monitoring, blocklist monitoring, etc. The pricing is good enough that I've forgotten how much it costs.
SmokePing's advantages include (1) it's open source, (2) it's relatively easy to install and configure, (3) it's lightweight enough to run on customer-side Raspberry Pis, (4) it supports extremely fine-grained monitoring (e.g. my endpoints will detect and optionally alert on outages of <5 seconds), and so on. The software is free, as it's open-source, and it could be implemented on a $5/mo VPS at somewhere like DigitalOcean.
good luck,
Graham Freeman, Principal Nerd NerdVentures.com <http://nerdventures.com> +1-510-898-6772 graham at nerdventures.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/grahamfreeman Twitter: @get_nerdy
On 11 Feb 02016, at 12:28, Li Tiatia <tiatia at tcnp3.com> wrote:
Hi All, Anyone have any suggestions on recommended website/IP monitoring tools? There are so many out there and just need help to narrow the list down based on what you're using or have good experience with.
Thank you. *_________________________________*
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In place of the SSH management tunnels, have you considered OpenVPN? ? -- Alex?Balashov?|?Principal?|?Evariste?Systems?LLC 303?Perimeter?Center?North,?Suite?300 Atlanta,?GA?30346 United?States Tel:?+1-800-250-5920?(toll-free)?/?+1-678-954-0671 (direct) Web:?http://www.evaristesys.com/, http://www.csrpswitch.com/ Sent?from?my?BlackBerry.
Yep, I've considered it. Doing so would certainly open some more remote-management doors. It's just a layer of complexity that I haven't tackled yet. (My managed-networks business is just me and some occasional help from a small number of contractors.) A unique reverse SSH tunnel to a unique bastion host per customer delivers the connectivity and security that I need. Graham Freeman, Principal Nerd NerdVentures.com <https://nerdventures.com/> +1-510-898-6772 graham at nerdventures.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/grahamfreeman Twitter: @get_nerdy <https://twitter.com/get_nerdy> On 11 February 2016 at 16:44, Alex Balashov <abalashov at evaristesys.com> wrote:
In place of the SSH management tunnels, have you considered OpenVPN? ? -- Alex Balashov | Principal | Evariste Systems LLC 303 Perimeter Center North, Suite 300 Atlanta, GA 30346 United States
Tel: +1-800-250-5920 (toll-free) / +1-678-954-0671 (direct) Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/, http://www.csrpswitch.com/
Sent from my BlackBerry.
You could do some interesting things with the PI's GPIO ports too... flash a LED to locate it in a rack, triggering a relay to reset a cable modem, log environmental data etc.. On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 7:38 PM Graham Freeman <graham at nerdventures.com> wrote:
Yep, with my managed network customers. I have a small number of customers, each of which is meaningfully profitable, so a $100/year deployment of a Pi with a fancier USB wifi interface is well worth it. I set up reverse SSH sessions (originating from the Pi) to distinct per-customer bastion hosts on my management networks, so that the customer's firewall and/or dynamic-IP issues are non-issues. I use Chef, git, and some shell scripts for config management.
I've had 1 Pi fail out of 20. So, reliable enough, though of course not a huge sample size.
It's great to be able to say "Hey, customer, I noticed a routing issue impacting your web-based accounting software on your ISP A, so I automatically promoted ISP B to primary for that route. Monitoring (graph screenshot attached) indicates that this was an effective workaround. I'll restore normal routing or promote ISP B to primary off-hours tonight, depending on the outcome of the trouble ticket I've already opened about the issue." before the first tech support call comes in. Similar customer success story when I call them immediately after getting an alert from the Pi-connected UPS informing me of a power outage. This kind of thing makes the next 2-year renewal negotiation an easy one. :)
Graham Freeman, Principal Nerd NerdVentures.com <https://nerdventures.com/> +1-510-898-6772 graham at nerdventures.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/grahamfreeman Twitter: @get_nerdy <https://twitter.com/get_nerdy>
On 11 February 2016 at 16:26, Chris Aloi <ctaloi at gmail.com> wrote:
You have pi's deployed on the customer premise running smoke ping ? Great idea, have they been reliable ? I've only played with them - never production. How do you handle managing a pi fleet ?
--- Christopher Aloi Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 11, 2016, at 3:36 PM, Graham Freeman <graham at nerdventures.com> wrote:
I use and like StatusCake.com <http://statuscake.com> as a hosted monitoring provider, and SmokePing as an internally-managed monitoring tool.
StatusCake has been reliable, and offers nice features such as worldwide monitoring endpoints, outage confirmation, configurable paging methods and thresholds, etc. They also support different types of monitoring, ranging from a simple ICMP ping to a more complex mix of HTTP(S), keyword monitoring, blocklist monitoring, etc. The pricing is good enough that I've forgotten how much it costs.
SmokePing's advantages include (1) it's open source, (2) it's relatively easy to install and configure, (3) it's lightweight enough to run on customer-side Raspberry Pis, (4) it supports extremely fine-grained monitoring (e.g. my endpoints will detect and optionally alert on outages of <5 seconds), and so on. The software is free, as it's open-source, and it could be implemented on a $5/mo VPS at somewhere like DigitalOcean.
good luck,
Graham Freeman, Principal Nerd NerdVentures.com <http://nerdventures.com> +1-510-898-6772 graham at nerdventures.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/grahamfreeman Twitter: @get_nerdy
On 11 Feb 02016, at 12:28, Li Tiatia <tiatia at tcnp3.com> wrote:
Hi All, Anyone have any suggestions on recommended website/IP monitoring tools? There are so many out there and just need help to narrow the list down based on what you're using or have good experience with.
Thank you. *_________________________________*
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Yep! :) We used the controllable built-in LED to flash out the pi's IP(v4) address so our engineers can discover it and connect to it across the LAN without needing any sort of display. We also used to have it 'speak' it's IP address out the earphones port (using espeak), but ended up turning that off when we designed the cases blocking access to non-eth/pwr ports. Pete
On 12/02/2016, at 2:42 pm, Christopher Aloi <ctaloi at gmail.com> wrote:
You could do some interesting things with the PI's GPIO ports too... flash a LED to locate it in a rack, triggering a relay to reset a cable modem, log environmental data etc..
That's great - I wish everything could blink it's IP !! --- Christopher Aloi Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 11, 2016, at 9:48 PM, Pete Mundy <pete at fiberphone.co.nz> wrote:
Yep! :)
We used the controllable built-in LED to flash out the pi's IP(v4) address so our engineers can discover it and connect to it across the LAN without needing any sort of display.
We also used to have it 'speak' it's IP address out the earphones port (using espeak), but ended up turning that off when we designed the cases blocking access to non-eth/pwr ports.
Pete
On 12/02/2016, at 2:42 pm, Christopher Aloi <ctaloi at gmail.com> wrote:
You could do some interesting things with the PI's GPIO ports too... flash a LED to locate it in a rack, triggering a relay to reset a cable modem, log environmental data etc..
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This is all sounding _very_ familiar! We do quite similar things using RPis here too, right down to the reverse SSH tunnels. Incredibly useful for remote diagnosis, visibility and proactive response. Our sample size isn't huge, only just over 3X what you've mentioned, but thus-far we've had zero hardware fails and some of them have been deployed and active for over 3 years. We also designed and 3D-print our own rack-mount (or wall-mount) cases which expose only the ethernet and power ports, with the power port right there at the front of the rack so they customer can easily pull it out and plug it back in again if needed. Pete
On 12/02/2016, at 1:38 pm, Graham Freeman <graham at nerdventures.com> wrote:
Yep, with my managed network customers. I have a small number of customers, each of which is meaningfully profitable, so a $100/year deployment of a Pi with a fancier USB wifi interface is well worth it. I set up reverse SSH sessions (originating from the Pi) to distinct per-customer bastion hosts on my management networks, so that the customer's firewall and/or dynamic-IP issues are non-issues. I use Chef, git, and some shell scripts for config management.
I've had 1 Pi fail out of 20. So, reliable enough, though of course not a huge sample size.
It's great to be able to say "Hey, customer, I noticed a routing issue impacting your web-based accounting software on your ISP A, so I automatically promoted ISP B to primary for that route. Monitoring (graph screenshot attached) indicates that this was an effective workaround. I'll restore normal routing or promote ISP B to primary off-hours tonight, depending on the outcome of the trouble ticket I've already opened about the issue." before the first tech support call comes in. Similar customer success story when I call them immediately after getting an alert from the Pi-connected UPS informing me of a power outage. This kind of thing makes the next 2-year renewal negotiation an easy one. :)
I love the idea of a roll your own probe/remote access/monitoring tools like this. I started playing with a similar idea a few years back using a Soekris. The great thing about Soekris as a platform was the fact that it had multiple interfaces. I setup two interfaces as a bridge and could insert it inline to gather traffic stats, pcaps, etc., without having to worry about setting up a span port and while still having a dedicated interface for the host. Most of our customers were connected to us via MPLS so I had setup a script to e-mail the host IP at startup time, but I like the idea of the reverse SSH connection. Of course, the great thing about Pi is that the cost is like 10% of the Soekris which makes it easy to justify. Rob From: VoiceOps [mailto:voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org] On Behalf Of Graham Freeman Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2016 7:38 PM To: Chris Aloi Cc: <voiceops at voiceops.org> Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Recommended Website/IP monitoring tool Yep, with my managed network customers. I have a small number of customers, each of which is meaningfully profitable, so a $100/year deployment of a Pi with a fancier USB wifi interface is well worth it. I set up reverse SSH sessions (originating from the Pi) to distinct per-customer bastion hosts on my management networks, so that the customer's firewall and/or dynamic-IP issues are non-issues. I use Chef, git, and some shell scripts for config management. I've had 1 Pi fail out of 20. So, reliable enough, though of course not a huge sample size. It's great to be able to say "Hey, customer, I noticed a routing issue impacting your web-based accounting software on your ISP A, so I automatically promoted ISP B to primary for that route. Monitoring (graph screenshot attached) indicates that this was an effective workaround. I'll restore normal routing or promote ISP B to primary off-hours tonight, depending on the outcome of the trouble ticket I've already opened about the issue." before the first tech support call comes in. Similar customer success story when I call them immediately after getting an alert from the Pi-connected UPS informing me of a power outage. This kind of thing makes the next 2-year renewal negotiation an easy one. :) Graham Freeman, Principal Nerd NerdVentures.com<https://nerdventures.com/> +1-510-898-6772<tel:+1-510-898-6772> graham at nerdventures.com<mailto:graham at nerdventures.com> https://www.linkedin.com/in/grahamfreeman Twitter: @get_nerdy<https://twitter.com/get_nerdy> On 11 February 2016 at 16:26, Chris Aloi <ctaloi at gmail.com<mailto:ctaloi at gmail.com>> wrote: You have pi's deployed on the customer premise running smoke ping ? Great idea, have they been reliable ? I've only played with them - never production. How do you handle managing a pi fleet ? --- Christopher Aloi Sent from my iPhone On Feb 11, 2016, at 3:36 PM, Graham Freeman <graham at nerdventures.com<mailto:graham at nerdventures.com>> wrote: I use and like StatusCake.com<http://statuscake.com> as a hosted monitoring provider, and SmokePing as an internally-managed monitoring tool. StatusCake has been reliable, and offers nice features such as worldwide monitoring endpoints, outage confirmation, configurable paging methods and thresholds, etc. They also support different types of monitoring, ranging from a simple ICMP ping to a more complex mix of HTTP(S), keyword monitoring, blocklist monitoring, etc. The pricing is good enough that I've forgotten how much it costs. SmokePing's advantages include (1) it's open source, (2) it's relatively easy to install and configure, (3) it's lightweight enough to run on customer-side Raspberry Pis, (4) it supports extremely fine-grained monitoring (e.g. my endpoints will detect and optionally alert on outages of <5 seconds), and so on. The software is free, as it's open-source, and it could be implemented on a $5/mo VPS at somewhere like DigitalOcean. good luck, Graham Freeman, Principal Nerd NerdVentures.com<http://nerdventures.com> +1-510-898-6772<tel:%2B1-510-898-6772> graham at nerdventures.com<mailto:graham at nerdventures.com> https://www.linkedin.com/in/grahamfreeman Twitter: @get_nerdy On 11 Feb 02016, at 12:28, Li Tiatia <tiatia at tcnp3.com<mailto:tiatia at tcnp3.com>> wrote: Hi All, Anyone have any suggestions on recommended website/IP monitoring tools? There are so many out there and just need help to narrow the list down based on what you're using or have good experience with. Thank you. _________________________________ Li Tiatia _______________________________________________ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps at voiceops.org<mailto:VoiceOps at voiceops.org> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops _______________________________________________ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps at voiceops.org<mailto:VoiceOps at voiceops.org> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops
I use and like Monitis for outside SIP testing, ping testing, WWW page loading, etc. On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 1:28 PM, Li Tiatia <tiatia at tcnp3.com> wrote:
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Thank you.
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Thank you. *_________________________________* *Li Tiatia, EVP International Operations* *TCN Inc. Australasia/Oceania/Asia | au.tcnp3.com <http://au.tcnp3.com>* *Direct: tiatia at tcnp3.com <tiatia at tcnp3.com> | AU+61 1300 138 298 | NZ+64 3 668 4210 | US+1800 570 1561* *Support: service at tcnp3.com <service at tcnp3.com> | AU+61 1800 352 478 | NZ+64 3 588 0055* <http://www.facebook.com/tcnp3> <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/l-tiatia/21/322/211> <http://plus.google.com/u/0/+LiTiatia/about> <http://twitter.com/tcn> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Carlos Alvarez <caalvarez at gmail.com> wrote:
I use and like Monitis for outside SIP testing, ping testing, WWW page loading, etc.
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 1:28 PM, Li Tiatia <tiatia at tcnp3.com> wrote:
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+1 for Monitis... Very good for basic monitoring and e-mail/SMS alerts. If you need anything a bit more complex, I'd use a Raspberry Pi or Arduino. You can code a script once, and deploy to dozens of units. On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 2:39 PM, Carlos Alvarez <caalvarez at gmail.com> wrote:
I use and like Monitis for outside SIP testing, ping testing, WWW page loading, etc.
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 1:28 PM, Li Tiatia <tiatia at tcnp3.com> wrote:
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I can recommend uptimerobot.com. I tried their free-tier service after an earlier recommendation which was either on this list or NANOG; I forget which. The service has been very reliable other than a few blips with IPv6 to some local hosts (we're down in New Zealand and it's likely related to local ISP's IPv6 routing rather than UptimeRobot's). Can't beat the price either. We're monitoring I think around 25 services across various hosts and thus-far haven't needed to upgrade to the paid level. So maybe I can pay it forward with a recommendation instead! :) Pete
On 12/02/2016, at 9:28 am, Li Tiatia <tiatia at tcnp3.com> wrote:
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I tried Uptimerobot, but within a week I noticed a 12-hour period in which no monitoring took place. (Based on server logs on the monitored servers.) Monitoring resumed after 12 hours without a word from them. Outages happen - even to monitoring service providers - but what really bothered me was the complete lack of acknowledgement of the issue on their part. I wish them the best, and I still use their cheapest paid level of service as a secondary layer of monitoring for important sites, but I've switched to StatusCake (and internal tools) for primary. Graham Freeman, Principal Nerd NerdVentures.com <https://nerdventures.com/> +1-510-898-6772 graham at nerdventures.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/grahamfreeman Twitter: @get_nerdy <https://twitter.com/get_nerdy> On 11 February 2016 at 18:43, Pete Mundy <pete at fiberphone.co.nz> wrote:
I can recommend uptimerobot.com. I tried their free-tier service after an earlier recommendation which was either on this list or NANOG; I forget which. The service has been very reliable other than a few blips with IPv6 to some local hosts (we're down in New Zealand and it's likely related to local ISP's IPv6 routing rather than UptimeRobot's).
Can't beat the price either. We're monitoring I think around 25 services across various hosts and thus-far haven't needed to upgrade to the paid level. So maybe I can pay it forward with a recommendation instead! :)
Pete
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On 11/02/16 20:28, Li Tiatia wrote:
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I'm a big fan of http://nodeping.com/ If you want to give me a referal: https://nodeping.com?rid=201308201413DN5P5 It is very simple. Give it an IP, it pings every minute. Give it a website and some text to check for, it checks every minute. I've loads of checks. Websites, API services, SSL certificate expiry, IMAP/SMTP, SIP services. We use the API to put up a list of failures on the office wallboard. And we use pushover notifies for services that really matter. We get a lot of value for our $15 a month. -- Tim Bray tim at kooky.org | +44 7966 479015 | http://www.kooky.org Huddersfield, UK
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