New post about monitor.us at https://www.lildude.co.uk/2006/10/free-website-monitoring-with-monitorus/.

Fragments:

I needed something that reported not only availability, but performance too. So I turned to my trusty friend, Google, and after some extensive searching, and I happened to find monitor.us which seemed to suit my needs, and best of all, it can actually notify you via SMS, email, IM and RSS feed of any outages.

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Oh, and it can pretty much monitor any service you like. In the list of service types you’d like to test it lists the services you’d expect: HTTP, HTTPS, PING, SMTP, POP3, DNS, IMAP. This is pretty impressive already, but the most impressive things are that is also includes SIP (for VoIP apps) but also two invaluable options: TCP and UDP. So if, like me, you want to monitor MySQL, just select TCP from the list and enter the site URL/IP and add :3306 to the end. Bingo, you’re now monitoring MySQL.

All in all, it’s pretty impressive and the most complete free monitoring tool I’ve found. I’ll give it some time to do some monitoring and I’ll report back.

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Thanks for a positive review!

[tags]website monitoring, database monitoring, monitorus, sip monitoring, network monitoring[/tags]