Re: External sanity checks

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

not sure where these folks are in terms of deployment or meeting the
OP's needs, but the owner/founder is a nanog person:

<http://www.thousandeyes.com/>

so maybe you can link up with him and ask some questions?

-Chris


On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:37 PM,  <nevin () enginehosting com> wrote:
> On Thursday, February 3, 2011 8:31pm, "Jeffrey Lyon" <jeffrey.lyon () blacklotus net> said:
>
> > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Justin Horstman
> > <justin.horstman () gorillanation com> wrote:
> > > +1 vote for Gomez, they are the most advanced and most capable in this space.
> > > They are also not very cheap...
> > >
> > >
> > > ~J
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Greg Dendy [mailto:gdendy () equinix com]
> > > > Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 10:35 AM
> > > > To: Brandon Galbraith
> > > > Cc: nanog
> > > > Subject: Re: External sanity checks
> > > >
> > > > Gomez isn't too bad either for the http side.
> > > >
> > > > http://www.gomez.com/
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Greg
> > > >
> > > > On Feb 3, 2011, at 10:29 AM, "Brandon Galbraith"
> > > > <brandon.galbraith () gmail com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Pingdom will do most of what you're looking for (www.pingdom.com).
> > > > We're
> > > > > quite fond of them after a bad Keynote experience.
> > > > >
> > > > > -brandon
> > > > >
> > > > > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Philip Lavine
> > > > <source_route () yahoo com>wrote:
> > > > > > To all,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Does any one know a Vendor (NOT Keynote) that can do sanity checks
> > > > against
> > > > > > your web/smtp/ftp farms with pings, traceroutes, latency checks as
> > > > well as
> > > > > > application checks (GET, POST, ESMTP, etc)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thank you,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Philip
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Brandon Galbraith
> > > > > US Voice: 630.492.0464
> >
> > Pingdom has been pretty solid, only criticism is that all of their
> > nodes are North America and Europe.
> >
> > --
> > Jeffrey Lyon, Leadership Team
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> http://www.websitepulse.com/ been around and solid for years, much more advanced than pingdom.com but pingdom.com is 
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