Ask HN: How do you monitor uptime?

Posted by tlong on Sunday May 31, 2015 @11:54PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm building a new uptime monitoring system and would love to know more about what you're using now and what you like or dislike about it.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you monitor uptime? by fpvracing on Monday June 01, 2015 @12:15AM (#9636771)

We use Pingdom and it's awesome. The dashboard is really nice and the service is very reliable. My sole complaint is that their starter plan only includes Real User Monitoring for one website. Have to jump up to the $46 / month plan for more RUM sites.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you monitor uptime? by tlong on Monday June 01, 2015 @01:05AM (#9636884)

Nice. Thanks. So RUM is a big value prop? Do you use an analytics service also?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you monitor uptime? by fpvracing on Monday June 01, 2015 @01:24AM (#9636923)

RUM is definitely a big value prop. I like keeping an eye on how quickly our site loads in different countries and on various devices.

For analytics we use Clicky and it's decent. There's a 3rd party Chrome extension which is useful for seeing, at a glance, how many people are on our site.

Another big value prop is integrations with services like Slack.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you monitor uptime? by rabidonrails on Monday June 01, 2015 @10:30AM (#9638800)

I use Pingdom. We need uptime monitoring to satisfy a clause in our SLA and because we like being transparent with our users about our uptime.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you monitor uptime? by samhamilton on Monday June 01, 2015 @07:38AM (#9637845)

Used to use Pingdom but currently trying out NewRelic Synthetics

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Re:Ask HN: How do you monitor uptime? by tlong on Monday June 01, 2015 @12:44PM (#9640051)

Nice. Why did you switch away from Pingdom. How do you like New Relic.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you monitor uptime? by nilmonibasak on Monday June 01, 2015 @11:58AM (#9639634)

we use pingdom and their email notification service which work brilliant for us.

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