I've been using pingdom.com for a while. It has a free account to monitor a single url with resolutions as low as 1 check per minute.
On Mar 25, 11:36 am, John McCaffrey <[email protected]> wrote: > Also, the new relic add-on will give you alerts for failures and changes in > response times. > > While this isn't the same as url monitoring, it does provide some very > critical diagnostic info, including your heroku queue depth (which is very > cool), and its free! > > I wonder if anyone has had success with any of the free url monitoring sites > out there? > I found this one > (intervista)<http://www.internetvista.com/product-free-monitoring.htm>which > will ping your site every 60mins from different locations, for free. > (though it looks like they want you to put an image banner on the page you > want them to monitor, which could just be some other unimportant page you > have) > > I was also wondering if anyone has used a url monitoring site like this to > trigger a 'cron-like' server process? (Have the site monitor hit a specific > url that will trigger some task or process that you need.) > > It seems a little convoluted, but depending on the nature of the task, it > might not be that bad. (update an rss feed, publish some results, do some > cleanup of old session data or something) > > -John > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Jesse <[email protected]> wrote: > > that would be a nice add-on > > > here is a rather naive monitoring script (rake task) replace the > > 'TODO's as needed > >http://gist.github.com/343625 > > > I call this every 5 minutes via cron from my workstation, later I will > > probably install it on other machines that are outside of the Heroku > > and Amazon infrastructure so I can turn my workstation off at night :) > > > On Mar 24, 8:02 pm, Jared Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I know that this topic has been discussed before. As far as I can > > > tell the official response has been that apps are monitored internally > > > and that Heroku will know before anyone if apps are having issues > > > responding. But not having a URL monitoring service offered as an add- > > > on seems like an oversight or at the least an easy way to appease some > > > users and cross an item off the list of reasons to choose > > > engineyard.com. > > > > Are there any plans to offer URL monitoring from external servers in > > > the future or to have this offered through a partner under add-ons? > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > Jared > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Heroku" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<heroku%[email protected]> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en. > > -- > -John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en.
