Paid Monitor Launches Cloud Monitoring Service

by Hovhannes Avoyan | May 12, 2009

Latest Paid Monitor service automates Amazon EC2 monitoring

Press Release

San Jose 12 May, 2009 – Paid Monitor launches industry’s first deep EC2 monitoring service. Paid Monitor Cloud Monitor records instantiations and terminations of virtual server instances, automatically configures Paid Monitor 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.

Paid Monitor 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. Paid Monitor automatically configures its agent for probing server CPU, load, storage, and processes resource utilization. Paid Monitor 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\”. Paid Monitor 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 Paid Monitor Performance Monitor

Paid Monitor Performance Monitor is industry leading comprehensive, affordable, scalable, fault and performance management platform.  Paid Monitor 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 Paid Monitor plug-in with powerful API’s allow users to extend Paid Monitor powerful monitoring and management capabilities.  Users can be assured of always on reliable service as Paid Monitor Performance Monitor is deployed across the world providing resilient service.

About Paid Monitor

Paid Monitor 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 Paid Monitor to reduce system downtime, improve IT administrator productivity, and reduce operational expenditure.  Paid Monitor 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 https://www.monitor.us

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