Re: recommendations for external montioring services?

[David Miller <dmiller () tiggee com>]

On 12/13/2011 5:11 AM, Michiel Klaver wrote:
> 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/

I'll throw another into the list:

http://www.watchmouse.com/

They have some nice features and monitoring over IPv4 and IPv6.

-DMM