Re: 3rd party network monitoring

[Matt Peterson <matt () peterson org>]

Check out WebSitePulse.com  While they too are geared for service  
testing (such as HTTP, DNS, IMAP, etc); they do offer a barebones ICMP  
check (with support to pull from multiple geographical locations) with  
some basic graphing & escalation support (looks like they can notify  
when a predefined threshold of round-trip time is exceeded).

--Matt

On Mar 4, 2008, at 9:02 AM, Darrell Hyde wrote:
> Can anybody recommend a vendor for this type of service? I suppose I
> could always just get a bunch of VPS accounts here and there and run
> smokeping, but I'd really like to avoid that.