I highly suggest you use Alertra.com for external monitoring from different points around the nation and/or world. For more intense monitoring setup Nagios or Zenoss installed locally and on one or two external machines. -Will
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Joseph Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm just curious on something here. One of our partners uses > www.pingdom.com to monitor their sites, which are hosted on our > servers. They have it set to check response times once a minute. It > seems to be decent at telling us when our sites go down, but its > recovery time is horrible. For instance, today Apache wouldn't restart > properly on a server, and was down for less than a minute. It had been > restarted properly for a full three minutes before the alerts started, > and they continued for a full 20 minutes. In the past several months, > this seems to be the norm. > > I've been looking for reviews in Google of Pingdom, but I have yet to > find anything other than reviews from Pingdom of other sites, and > reviews from sites that read like they've been paid for a good review. > Has anyone else been subjected to this service? Am I really the only > person in the world that doesn't like them? > > -- > Joseph > http://blog.josephhall.com/ > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > -- Warm regards, William Attwood Idea Extraordinaire [email protected] Yogi Berra <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/y/yogi_berra.html> - "If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer." /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
