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What uptime service do you use and why?
Hi everyone, I am curious to know what external (websites) uptime services you use and why (eg. Price, Interval, Types of Monitoring etc). Do you think paying for uptime monitoring is ridiculous? This is after all LET where we want the best prices possible or free stuff. Please let me know.
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UptimeRobot because price (free) and decent API - waiting to see if they do a Black Friday promo or something though because I wouldn't mind 1 min intervals and I want to support them somehow.
NewRelic because quality, also price (free for the server monitoring stuff).
It depends what you're doing as to whether or not it is ridiculous.
Paying to monitor your idle CloudatCost VM? Probably ridiculous.
Paying to monitor your WHCMS panel for your company? Probably a good idea.
I use NodePing with just a few basic monitors for a truly external monitor. I have Sensu running on AWS for an owned-by-me-but-still-external monitor that does a lot more than NodePing.
You could always go free too, like with LunaNode's monitoring or NixStats.
I want to try this one too, https://www.globespotter.co/servers/signup/, but I don't have any server important enough to justify $12/yr monitoring just for it.
Uptime Doctor and NewRelic Synthetics
+1 uptimerobot, rarely get false alarm.
UptimeRobot is nice. But their emails are marked as spam with Outlook/Hotmail.
I use datadoghq personally.
uptimerobot, nodequery ( discontinued) and
Self hosted Zabbix. Extendable, detailed, self hosted and free.
UptimeRobot; its free and the stats page is great!
Selfmade, 10s, PHP(Async) + MariaDB
All other Free Providers eg: UptimeRobot or Statuscake only offer 300s intervals, often it takes even longer, kinda sucks.
No ETA yet, but want to launch a Free 10s Interval Monitoring service, based on that system.
Neoon, can you share link to yours? i think is on github isnt? but i don't remember link,
It isn't and will be closed source.
How are you finding it? I was thinking to set this up to monitor system resource usage.
updown.io is awesome!
sorry, i think you where
https://github.com/Ne00n/Ariane-Monitoring
Statuscake (free plan) had a lot of false positives and would report extended downtimes even when the site came back up. Seemed shady to force users to upgrade to their paid plans.
HetrixTools (free)
statuscake, because I worked with the co-owner briefly in the past and he's a friend of my colleague (alongside decent reviews). Early days so no solid opinion, still gathering data.
It's really great, you could get 5 hosts free if you're apart of the github student pack.
+1 for updown.io, uptimerobot is a good free "backup" monitor too, has been very reliable.
Uptime Robot and http://www.phpservermonitor.org/