Every tool we use on our websites makes us dependent on the creator and supplier of that tool. Examples: If our website uses HTML/CSS, we are dependent on the World-Wide Web Consortium. If our website uses PHP, we are dependent on The PHP Group. If our website uses Red Hat Linux, we are dependent on [...]

If you’ve discovered the convenience of Jiffy-Web, you may be pleased to know that it fully integrates with Monitis cloud-based monitoring. Jiffy-Web? What’s That? According to its project home page, “Jiffy is an end-to-end real-world web page instrumentation and measurement suite.” That means it can measure how long it takes to execute any block of [...]

In a previous post we discussed how to improve the performance of BerkeleyDB by tuning the cache size. Let’s see how Monitis can help you keep tabs on the cache hit rate and other critical database metrics. We use a custom monitor created by a perl script, monitor_bdb.pl, which can be downloaded from our repository on [...]

  MONTREAL, July 22, 2011– Monitis, the award-winning provider of the world’s first all-in-one cloud-based service that combines web site uptime, server and application monitoring, today announced the deployment of a new monitoring node in Canada. This will provide companies whose business relies on the Web, a complete and accurate performance picture from the perspective of [...]

Nagios is a widely used monitoring software for systems and networks. It provides the flexibility to monitor anything on your systems or networks using a script or plugin.  Known for having plugins and scripts available to monitor your needs, Nagios’ the interface and user friendliness leaves much to be desired.  Plus you have to maintain [...]

Monitis provides the ability to monitor almost any operation on your server.  Using simple Linux tools and scripts you are able to monitor each time a user logs into the server and capture various information, including username, host address and login service.  Using pam_script and bash scripts, you are able to transmit information to a [...]

I was shopping online the other day, and I wanted to buy some boots from a famous western boot manufacturer. They’ve been around forever. My shopping experience went fine until I decided to check out the location of the closest store to my house. On one page, it asked me to enter my zip code, [...]

Doing a little bragging here, but I’m a very proud father. It’s been two months now since my company, Monitis, Inc., launched the first cloud-based SOAP testing service available for on-demand Web services and applications load testing. No, we’re not testing Dove, Ivory or Dial. SOAP in this case stands for Simple Object Access Protocol, [...]

Transaction Service Provider Number of Steps  Price per month (USD)  Check Interval Monitis Up to 20  80  5 minutes  Websitepulse  5  87  5 minutes  Uptrends  5  90.69  5 minutes  Dotcom-monitor  10  179.99 5 minutes  Learn more about transaction monitoring from our blog post:rn Web Applications Monitoring Best Practices: Transactions Monitoring

Twitter is a so-called “micro-blogging” site that many people use to exchange messages with their friends, but Twitter can also be used for business. You can now get Twitter notifications for Monitis and Mon.itor.us monitoring services. Follow Monitis Twitter page; add your Twitter account to the contacts for Monitis and/or mon.itor.us, and you will be [...]