Show HN: Free monitoring and notification service. (Alpha)

Re:Show HN: Free monitoring and notification service. (Alpha) by NetStrikeForce on Friday April 15, 2016 @06:12PM (#11508002)

Now it has more information, but as far as I can tell you only send pings, right?

Nowadays, just icmp doesn't cut it. People want to know if their service is running, not so much if the server is running. Also, some big hosting providers (e.g. Azure) don't even reply to ping.

My suggestion is to add http/https queries. I'm not sure what do you use in the backend, but almost every language has an http library to make this easy for you.

If you'd like to have a look, one of my side projects is a monitoring site: https://datasnitch.co.uk

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Re:Show HN: Free monitoring and notification service. (Alpha) by markdleblanc on Saturday April 16, 2016 @12:44PM (#11511236)

You are correct and your suggestion was already at the top of my list. It now supports HTTP/HTTPS and will notify you once your Certificate is about to expire.

I wanted to add a note to my site that if folks are looking for other options to check out some alternatives. Can I list yours?

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Re:Show HN: Free monitoring and notification service. (Alpha) by NetStrikeForce on Sunday April 17, 2016 @06:36AM (#11514090)

Sure, thanks!

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