I use and like StatusCake.com as a hosted monitoring provider, and SmokePing as 
an internally-managed monitoring tool.

StatusCake has been reliable, and offers nice features such as worldwide 
monitoring endpoints, outage confirmation, configurable paging methods and 
thresholds, etc.  They also support different types of monitoring, ranging from 
a simple ICMP ping to a more complex mix of HTTP(S), keyword monitoring, 
blocklist monitoring, etc.   The pricing is good enough that I've forgotten how 
much it costs.

SmokePing's advantages include (1) it's open source, (2) it's relatively easy 
to install and configure, (3) it's lightweight enough to run on customer-side 
Raspberry Pis, (4) it supports extremely fine-grained monitoring (e.g. my 
endpoints will detect and optionally alert on outages of <5 seconds), and so 
on.  The software is free, as it's open-source, and it could be implemented on 
a $5/mo VPS at somewhere like DigitalOcean.

good luck,

Graham Freeman, Principal Nerd
NerdVentures.com
+1-510-898-6772
[email protected]
https://www.linkedin.com/in/grahamfreeman
Twitter: @get_nerdy

> On 11 Feb 02016, at 12:28, Li Tiatia <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> Anyone have any suggestions on recommended website/IP monitoring tools?  
> There are so many out there and just need help to narrow the list down based 
> on what you're using or have good experience with.
> 
> Thank you.
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