Re: recommendations for external montioring services?

[Michiel Klaver <michiel () klaver it>]

At 22-07-2011 20:59, Eric J Esslinger wrote:
> I'm not looking to monitor a massive infrastructure: 3 web sites, 2 mail servers (pop,imap,submission port, https 
> webmail), 4 dns servers (including lookups to ensure they're not listening but not talking), and one inbound mx. A 
> few network points to ping to ensure connectivity throughout my system. Scheduled notification windows (for example, 
> during work hours I don't want my phone pinged unless it's everything going offline. Off hours I do. Secondary 
> notifications if problem persists to other users, or in the event of many triggers. That sort of thing). Sensitivity 
> settings (If web server 1 shows down for 5 min, that's not a big deal. Another one if it doesn't respond to repeated 
> queries within 1 minute is a big deal) A Weekly summary of issues would be nice. (especially the 'well it was down 
> for a short bit but we didn't notify as per settings')
> I don't have a lot of money to throw at this. I DO have detailed internal monitoring of our systems  but sometimes 
> that is not entirely useful, due to the fact that there are a few 'single points of failure' within our 
> network/notification system, not to mention if the monitor itself goes offline it's not exactly going to be able to 
> tell me about it. (and that happened once, right before the mail server decided to stop receiving mail).

Some external monitoring services I could recommend:

https://circonus.com/
http://mon.itor.us/
http://pingdom.com/