This came up in a conversation that I was having yesterday and I thought that I was worth a short note.
Many website monitoring companies, including microNOC, offer the ability to test the actual content that your website is serving to visitors, instead of just checking that the server is up and running, which can give [...]

Not really a post I intended to write, but I was perusing Google doing some competitive analysis and came across, on the second page of results, a site whose content was “an error occurred”. So I clicked on the cached, and the Google cache of the site, from yesterday, was literally a page that says [...]

Just a brief update on the few entries we are working on right now:
1) SEO and website monitoring
2) Review of some internal network monitoring tools
3) New video / presentations on monitoring
4) Adding a third donation target to our current Lance Armstrong Foundation and the March of Dimes donation programs.
Sorry that it’s taking so long to [...]

We’ve made some changes to our Free Website Monitoring in the past week, including the Free Ipod Giveaways, but something that I don’t think that I’ve mentioned yet is the change from 60 minute to 15 minute checks.
We tossed this one around for a while and came to the conclusion that while 60 minute checks [...]

As a way to help increase the ability of our customers to relax, microNOC is giving away iPods. Lots of them actually.
Here are three ways that you can get your hands on one:
1) We are giving away an iPod shuffle every month to a website that uses our Free Website Monitoring service. All you need [...]

In response to a question asked recently, here is a list of the top 5 free tools that I use when starting out doing consulting in IT departments. These are free tools that are designed for monitoring networks from the inside, as opposed to external monitoring like that provided by microNOC.com.
In no particular order, here [...]

Having been in IT for a long time, I am used to monitoring servers and systems. It’s what makes our lives easier. And what lets us sleep at night. It’s also what wakes us up at night.
Monitoring systems are one of the first things that I setup at any company that I’m working at. [...]

As referenced in the last post, here is a wallet card for you to fill in and keep with you so that you always have the information that you need at hand when there is a problem with your website or network.
ISP Emergency Wallet Card
Print them out, fill them in and keep them handy [...]

This week one of the best known web entities in the world, Google, had an outage. That’s right, Google.
From the reports that came out immediately afterwards, the outage was caused by a routing change on their internal networks that led to all traffic being routed through a very small connection, causing it to fail. [...]

We are in the process of putting together some simple docs that explain what website monitoring is, how to get started, what features to look for and creative ways to use it for your business.
We’ll be posting these in a couple of places online so that everyone can begin to understand what they are possibly [...]