[TriZPUG] OT: Website monitoring

[Chris Calloway]

On 9/21/2010 1:57 PM, Joseph Tate wrote:
> Do any of you have a favorite service for monitoring websites?  I
> don't need 100% uptime, but I also don't think that I should have to
> pay $$ a month to monitor a website.  It seems like it should be more
> like ¢¢.

Monitoring a web server or web site?

If web server, a ZPUG should recommend Zenoss to you:

http://zenoss.org

It will run Nagios plug-ins.

Cakti, Ganglia, and Munin are also popular for looking at monitor 
output. But Zenoss is what the cool kids use. There's even a local 
support guy in the Triangle.

For web *site* monitoring, this one is as low as $5/month and was done 
in Django:

http://www.howsthe.com/

But you can do that yourself with a few scripts. The problem is simply 
hosting your monitor scripts somewhere meaningful. Web site monitoring 
is all a matter of *where* you are monitoring from. And it measures as 
much about how up your monitor is as it does how much your site is up.

Web server monitoring is generally more useful.

-- 
Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
office: 332 Chapman Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599