Ask HN: Best uptime monitor?

by evertonfuller • 15 years ago

2 6 15 years ago

Looking around for uptime monitoring systems. What do you guys use? Thanks!

sc68cal2• 15 years ago

How many systems are you planning to monitor?

Are you looking for alerts? Performance graphs? Managed vs. In house?

evertonfuller2• 15 years ago

Just 1 server.

Email (and SMS) alerts and graphs yup.

sc68cal2• 15 years ago

mariocesar• 15 years ago

I made my own service with a free Google App Engine instance, using this script as a base → https://github.com/danawoodman/python-uptime-monitor mainly to use the SMS gateway api from my provider.

Simple enough, write the views and use the cron service from GAE, for myself 2secods it's more than efficient.

I will never hit any cost on GAE just monitoring 12 servers every 2 seconds.

You will get more capabilities, writing your own uptime script and personally I will add: it's more fun :-)

antonioe• 15 years ago

Uptrends has a pretty good service. Probes that run every 10 minutes. http://uptrends.com

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