Comments on: If You Like It Then You Should Have Put a Ping On It

By: Fred Miller

Fred Miller — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:47:36 +0000

Nick,
I don’t know about other IT shops, but Furman University runs servers in three other states where (among other things) we monitor ping latency and jitter to various parts of our campus network. This gives us a level of insight about network performance far above a simple up or down measure.

Rather than imagine what they’re doing, it may be better to have a discussion about your performance requirements with your IT staff.

By: Kyle James

Kyle James — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:55:25 +0000

Nice writeup, but it will never be Pingdom. If you are going to do it do it right and go w/ the best.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:19:00 +0000

>But, Mike, you say. My IT staff is already monitoring the server<

Not only are your points valid but I would imagine that your IT staff is monitoring the server from INSIDE (the four walls of your LAN or WAN) and not from the OUTSIDE (the Internet).

In certain situations with certain resources, it could be a common problem that things are up and humming fine for internal users but down for folks out on the web.

You'd never know it if you don't have a monitoring solution that sits outside of your internal network!

By: Adam Palin

Adam Palin — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:19:39 +0000

Top article there Mike, I am signing up to Mon.itor.us right now! I definitely don’t want to find myself going “wo oh ooh oh oh ooh oh oh ooh oh oh oh” when my boss tells me the site has been down all weekend!

By: Dirk

Dirk — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:16:01 +0000

I’ve been using mon.itor.us in my private life for over 2 years
and it’s saved my hind ender there several times. Also using it in my day job, where my team is responsible for several enterprise web sites/apps. It’s been helpful there too. It’s not easy to do monitoring that’s external to your data center, this is where you’d have to be a fair sized company to do that level of monitoring in-house.