Ask HN: What do you use to monitor site uptime?

by bradhe on 9/4/2010, 1:09 AM with 5 comments

Title says it all. Basically just looking for a dead simple way of monitoring a webserver that will alert me when it's not responding.

I realize there are a number of services out there but currious what people are using these days.

  • by mhansen on 9/4/2010, 1:56 AM

    Dead simple, you can't get much simpler than http://wasitup.com/

    Three form fields. Click submit. Done. It's been monitoring my blog for the last six months

  • by patio11 on 9/4/2010, 2:24 AM

    Monitorus. They use delicious periods, so I just Google it every time.

    I also use http://scoutapp.com , which has saved my bacon when the problems were a little more nuanced then "the home page fails to return HTTP 200." Well worth the $20 a month if you've got a web application with paying users, in my opinion.

  • by charliepark on 9/4/2010, 2:08 AM

    I use http://wasitup.com and the free version of http://pingdom.com. Both seem to work well, although Pingdom has the advantage of a monthly summary.

  • by limist on 9/4/2010, 1:30 AM

    This is old, from the Web 1.0 world and inspired by Philip Greenspun's book "Database-Backed Web Sites" but it's dead-simple and it works:

    http://uptime.openacs.org/uptime/

    Oh, and it's free too.

  • by sunkencity on 9/4/2010, 6:53 AM

    I use nagios, and for some rails projects I use rpm (but i'm not terribly impressed with rpm), might be more worth it when we get more traffic.