Show HN: Updown.io, a simple and cheap website monitoring service

by adrienjarthon • 12 years ago

38 17 12 years ago

_neil• 12 years ago

This looks great. I've used uptimerobot on several client projects where I just need a simple up/down notification. The control panel is a little weird, but other than that works really well for its purposes. And it's free.

rpedela2• 12 years ago

Why do they need full access (read and write) to my personal user data on my Github account?

adrienjarthon5• 12 years ago

That's a mistake, we don't need more than read-only access to your email, I'll fix this soon, thanks !

adrienjarthon5• 12 years ago

Now fixed, only requires email read-only.

AdamGibbins• 12 years ago

Significantly cheaper than Pingdom, as there's significantly less monitoring POPs.

mobiplayer• 12 years ago

Beautiful. It makes me want to work much harder on mine (https://www.datasnitch.co.uk).

I like the Google/GitHub integration, the API and especially how you sell its simplicity. DataSnitch is quite simple, but you're one step further.

Congratulations :-)

adrienjarthon5• 12 years ago

Thank you! DataSnitch looks cheap and simple too, like it ;)

JadoJodo• 12 years ago

I would love to see this integrated w/ Pushover.net. Would save $ on SMS fees, and has the ability to send alerts as high priority (ignoring vibrate/silence). Or even just adding an email address instead of an SMS phone # as the alert contact method would work.

adrienjarthon5• 12 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion, that's on the long-term roadmap ^^, you can totally add several email address though (with the CC field)

thomasfromcdnjs• 12 years ago

It is so beautiful, and has the basic functionality of which I use Pingdom for but at a much cheaper rate. Transferring my domains now...

adrienjarthon5• 12 years ago

Welcome aboard!

nel• 12 years ago

Using it for about a year without false positive/negative. Usually much more sensitive than the competition for short issue detection.

sparrish• 12 years ago

If you need more than simple HTTP checks (PING, SMTP, WebSocket, etc) you may want to check out NodePing (https://nodeping.com).

gemma• 12 years ago

Very slick! Reminds me of a slimmed-down version of the Where's It Up API (https://api.wheresitup.com/), but with monitoring.

(Full disclosure: I've done some work for the Where's It Up folks.)

grizzles• 12 years ago

I was looking for something like this the other day and I found a few open source apps: https://github.com/fzaninotto/uptime and https://github.com/arachnys/cabot

It would be good to find one that I could deploy on app engine.

barryherne• 12 years ago

I would still prefer my own website monitoring tool Anturis http://www.anturis.com which is even free if you have only 5 monitors and then the starting price is about $9 per month for nice and effective phone, sms, email alerts and offered troubleshooting.

Show HN: Updown.io, a simple and cheap website monitoring service

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