Re: recommendations for 3rd party web site monitoring

[Andy Davidson <andy () nosignal org>]

Matt Bazan wrote:
> In need of external 3rd party site monitoring solution.  Nothing fancy.
> Need to be alerted if site (HTTP/S, SMTP, TCP connect based) goes down
> (email, pager).  Off list fine, thanks.

http://www.alertsite.com/ give us http availability which we can 
configure to alert us in a number of ways.  Also give us very useful 
performance statistics aggregated from a day and weekly statistics, by 
email in human readable and XML form (which means pulling it out of the 
mail and dropping it into a database is handy.)

For maximum offsite monitoring, a colo'd box with nagios is likely to be 
most flexible, but time consuming to setup and get right (as soon as you 
have something which can be turned into a powerful monitoring system, 
you will want it to perform exactly that task !)

Let us know what you finally do,

-a