{"id":12162,"date":"2010-02-18T13:28:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T11:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=12162"},"modified":"2010-02-19T09:32:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T07:32:52","slug":"web-site-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/18\/web-site-monitoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Web site monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.devlounge.net\/webapps\/three-site-monitoring-services?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+Devlounge+(Devlounge)\">Devlounge<\/a> lists three web site monitoring services : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montastic.com\/\">Montastic<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mon.itor.us\/\">Mon.itor.us<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkpatch.com\/\">LinkPatch<\/a>. \u00a0These services check your web sites regularly and notify you when something goes down. \u00a0They also provide additional services, like checking for broken links and such.<\/p>\n<p>While I personally prefer a full featured monitoring tool such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nagios.org\/\">Nagios<\/a> (with SMS integration via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clickatell.com\/\">Clickatell<\/a>), it&#8217;s good to know that there are simple and straight-forward ways for basic monitoring. \u00a0After all, \u00a0installing and configuring Nagios makes sense only if you are geek or monitoring things is a big part of your business.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alertra.com\/\">http:\/\/www.alertra.com\/<\/a> was recommended to me by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/profiles\/SaxtusGR#buzz\">Michael Cohen<\/a> over on Google Buzz.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Devlounge lists three web site monitoring services : Montastic, Mon.itor.us, and LinkPatch. \u00a0These services check your web sites regularly and notify you when something goes down. \u00a0They also provide additional services, like checking for broken links and such. While I personally prefer a full featured monitoring tool such as Nagios (with SMS integration via Clickatell), &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/18\/web-site-monitoring\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Web site monitoring<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62,1334],"tags":[127],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-12162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-monitoring"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11324,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/03\/monitoring-dynamic-processes-with-nagios\/","url_meta":{"origin":12162,"position":0},"title":"Monitoring dynamic processes with Nagios","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"August 3, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"We spent a couple of weeks now at work, setting up our Nagios installation.\u00a0 This is one of those things that one can never finish.\u00a0 Monitoring is like security - no matter how good it is, it can always be better. 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