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Uptime Robot
- tuananh 13y agoalready better than Free pingdom.
- umami 13y agoI really like the design and I am trying it with a couple of tests, but it seems to be reporting the opposite of reality. Shows one of my sites as down though it says Keyword Found and it shows the response time, while another one which is really down is shown as up: http://cl.ly/image/1Y1U3b0z2U0U http://cl.ly/image/1Y1U3b0z2U0U http://cl.ly/image/3c0e38312a2W http://cl.ly/image/3c0e38312a2W edit: If it is of any use for debugging, these sites' IDs are: 775909552 (up) and 775909549 (down).
- kmfrk 13y agoSeeing the same here. Maybe the CNAME is tripping it up.
- umami 13y agoNeither domain has a CNAME set up.
- umami 13y ago6 hour update. Now both sites are up but they are both listed as down and with "Keyword Found". http://cl.ly/image/2L1V1A2K180f http://cl.ly/image/2L1V1A2K180f Liking the service a lot by the way! That's why I am reporting what I find.
- omegote 13y agoDammit I was about to start developing something exactly like this... :(
- kintamanimatt 13y agoSo? Do it anyway. Competition stimulates demand and the fact you've got long-lived competitors indicates there's demand already. By coincidence I was literally about to sign up for Pingdom, but I'm going to try these guys out instead. If this had been your service, you'd have just had a new customer right now. Your success will depend on the quality and efficacy of your marketing.
- 300bps 13y agoSo was I - about 10 years ago. Registered the domain name, started working on the code and then realized there were 100 people doing it already. I mean, seriously, the code to do this is trivial to write. So I mothballed it for a couple months and then got an unsolicited offer from a guy in Israel to buy the domain for $1,000. Easiest $990 I ever made.
- arb99 13y agoThere are loads of these kind of service monitoring services out there.
- geerlingguy 13y agoIt's a fun way to learn about a good variety of things; http and other protocols, distributed architecture, how poor most sites' uptime truly is... I built https://servercheck.in/ https://servercheck.in/ for that reason, and because I wanted cheap 'real' SMS notifications (from a consistent phone number) so I could set a special ringtone on my phone when one of my servers goes down.
- davidradcliffe 13y agoThis has been around for a while, but seems to have had a facelift recently. Looks much better!
- antr 13y agoI already love it, better than Pingdom. FYI: I'd be willing to pay for SMS alerts (should be "straight forward" with Twilio) or might just work by linking the custom RSS feed to IFTTT...
- alanctgardner2 13y agoDoes you provider offer an email to MMS connection? I know with my cell carrier you can email to (my phone number)@telusblah.com and it'll forward it as an MMS.
- cotega 13y agoHere are a list of gateways that might be helpful for this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_SMS_gateways http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_SMS_gateways
- zackkitzmiller 13y agoIt actually already does support this, as well as twitter and push notifications to iOS via Boxcar. Just click 'Add Alert Contact'. Also seems pretty granular about which monitors report to what contact.
- kmfrk 13y agoAn old classic is http://aremysitesup.com/ http://aremysitesup.com/. You could use that as an alternative.
- quaffapint 13y agoBeen using this for awhile - its not bloated with a bunch of crud and it just plain works. Not bad for free.
- calpaterson 13y agoOne benefit of using this over Pingdom: they have a location in outside of the US and Europe (Singapore). If a networking issue causes your site to appear down for Japan, China or India Pingdom won't know.
- RafiqM 13y agoI've been using it for about a year and it works well, haven't gotten any false positives yet. It can do keyword checking as well as standard ping + port connect. That's about all it does, which is fine by me. It's free and it works.
- gbl08ma 13y agoI have been using this for a while on my servers. For some months, I had Pingdom and Uptime Robot monitor the same server. According to my experience, the latter has less false positives - with Pingdom, it sometimes looked as if it was monitoring its own network congestion, and not the availability of my websites. Uptime Robot also has an API like Pingdom, but with the added benefit you can monitor up to 50 websites for free. The API allows me to almost never log in to the control panel, as I watch the status using my custom monitoring panels.
- mml 13y agoThis. False positives are terrible. We monitor google & amazon along with our services. If us, google & amazon all look down, it's a false positive. Not sure why pingdom doesn't do this for us, but whatever. (fwiw, we're moving off of pingdom too).
- pieterhg 13y agoI've used Uptime Robot for a year now and it's awesome.
- huskyr 13y agoVery nice indeed. Just a bit of a pity that they don't support HTTPS :(
- zackkitzmiller 13y agoIt seems to support HTTPs.. There's an option for it.
- huskyr 13y agoWhere do you see the HTTPS option?
- zackkitzmiller 13y agoWhen I added a new check it says HTTP(s), then I just added the https:// https:// for the domain I was checking. Works fine.
- michaelmior 13y agoI think the comment was that the Uptime Robot website itself isn't served over HTTPS, not that it can't check HTTPS sites.
- spindritf 13y agoRight in time for a massive outage.
- nathancahill 13y agoLooks like a patchwork of all of the wrapbootstrap themes. Love it.
- karlgrz 13y agoJust signed up. Very nice interface, and it supports https for free!
- pranayairan 13y agoi am using it from last 6 months, nice service :)
- imrehg 13y agoIs it designed for a much larger screen than mine (1280x800 at the moment, the max on my laptop)? I have both horizontal and vertical scroll bars showing up, even when putting it to fullscreen, and some areas still overlap so I cannot see the content (that "sort monitors" section for example). Otherwise I set up two monitors, look interesting, useful, and well done! Good job!
- djm_ 13y agoHandy for keeping those free Heroku workers spinning.
- eknkc 13y agoHave been using http://copperegg.com http://copperegg.com probes for a while. I'd suggest them too. They have 15 second checks with various notifications.
- smathieu 13y ago+1 for copperegg. Their free plan is much better than uptimerobot. My only comment is that their UI is not overly intuitive, but you don't really have to look at it after you've set it up.
- lucasjans 13y agoIf you have something critical to monitor, my advice is to stay away from Uptime Robot. I've used them for a couple years along side my Pingdom checks. They often don't deliver notifications. My last notification is ".... resource is down. We'll notify you when it's back up." That was 10 days ago and it was down for a few minutes. I was never notified of it coming back up. This is just typical. It's also common that I never get a notification of a down resource, too.
- sleepyhead 13y ago+1. I tried Uptimerobot and Statuscake and had issues with both. Pingdom has on the other hand been 100%. It costs more but it works.
- kaeawc 13y agoThey seem to be having some odd errors in the signup that prevent it from showing it actually processed. Did get an email asking to verify the account so it sounds like its only a client side problem... seeing an error from jquery validation.
- chops 13y agoKinda-sorta-related: 10 years ago this month, I quit my job to finish my first product: a server monitoring system that I ultimately never launched. I did a little writeup of it earlier this year: http://sigma-star.com/blog/post/esonar-resurrection http://sigma-star.com/blog/post/esonar-resurrection So every time I see a post, ad or anything about server monitoring systems, it makes me smile. It's one of those projects that everyone has: "One of these days, I'll work on it."
- Theodores 13y agoMe too! I will tell you why... The off the shelf services will only get you so far, even with keyword search. Sometimes you just have to roll your own. With a complex ecommerce build you can run into situations where something has gone badly wrong with the pricing, e.g. everything is marked up as on sale, price £0.00. With a roll your own solution you can build an XML tree of the document, go through your HTML tags and put in some rules to make sure that all the prices are greater than zero (for instance). As for keywords, you want something on the page in the footer, however, that can change. Eventually I ended up using the content between the <noscript> tags as that really did not change (even though they were at the top of the page). Sending out an SMS is not hard to do, however, now that people have email on the phone it is not really that useful plus your credits can run out. A 'roll your own' solution with advanced content checks can be used with a standard 'Uptime Robot' type of service. Clients can have the 'Uptime Robot' and manage it themselves, they will get great peace of mind. Meanwhile, the homebrew check can give a developer a heads up on things going wrong before they go wrong (as far as the client is concerned) and pick up on more subtle failings that a client really doesn't need to be told about at odd hours of the night. Depending on your traffic levels you may also want to remember to take the IP address of your check program out of your stats. If anyone does want a very simple PHP script to iterate over a list of URL's (and their respective search strings), do the CURL thing and some DOM parsing, with SMS mailout of whatever the 50x fail is then I can find you one.
- troels 13y agoDefinitely looks nicer than the old design. I just wonder what the heck it's doing at the top of hn?
- WA 13y agoSignup sends login credentials over HTTP and not HTTPS. Come on guys, it's 2013. A certificate isn't that expensive anymore.
- ollydbg 13y agoAgreed on this one, HTTPS is not so hard.
- jpkeisala 13y agoOff topic: Where can I buy cheap certificate?
- michaelmior 13y agoI've used PositiveSSL certificates from Namecheap[1] successfully in the past. I think $7.95/yr is pretty cheap. [1] http://www.namecheap.com/ssl-certificates/comodo/positivessl-certificate.aspx http://www.namecheap.com/ssl-certificates/comodo/positivessl...
- perlgeek 13y agoYou can get your SSL certificate signed for free from http://www.startssl.com/ http://www.startssl.com/ whose CA is included by default in all major browsers. You just have to be able to receive email to webmaster@yourdomain.tld for that to work.
- borski 13y agoStartSSL is a pain in the ass if you're a business, and support sucks. Great for their personal certs. GoDaddy is the cheapest, but I hate them. Use Namecheap.
- gtaylor 13y agoBeen using Namecheap for a number of our client sites. Have been very happy. No BS, just gets the cert to me quickly.
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- antihero 13y agoSign up process is shot. You click sign up. Nothing happens. You click again, e-mail is used. Still have not received any e-mails.
- jqueryin 13y agoI found the same thing. This occurs on forgot password as well. I refreshed to re-signup and it said email already exists. I went to forgot password and it didn't give me any kind of success/error messaging. I opened my Chrome dev tools and could see the AJAX requests being processed but there was an empty response on forgot password. I didn't receive emails for registration or forgot password, so I'm dead in the water.
- grannyg00se 13y agoSame here. No feedback at all after clicking Signup. Clicked repeatedly.
- dewey 13y agoLooks like the signups are getting processed now, I just got mine and I signed up an hour ago.
- tomasien 13y agoMy old company made an uptimerobot app a couple years ago, https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/uptimerobot/id549265163?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/uptimerobot/id549265163?mt=8 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tw.mowd.uptimerobot https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tw.mowd.uptime... No idea if it still works, assume it does!
- ollydbg 13y ago5 minutes seems to be a pretty wide time interval IMO. If you are serious about uptime, you should check your servers at least every other minute.
- Nurdok 13y agoWhy do I have to enter a password? Use OpenID so I can login with Google, Twitter, GitHub, Facebook, etc.
- jensenbox 13y agoDoes signup work for you guys? I get this in the console: Uncaught TypeError: Object #<error> has no method 'call' jquery.validate.min.js:2
- perlgeek 13y agoSign up worked here (Firefox 24)
- morgo 13y agoAnyone know of a service like this with good Pager Duty integration? I've previously used Pingdom (which doesn't), and I'd happily make the switch.
- jorts 13y agoI work for PagerDuty. What issues are you having with the Pingdom integration? I'm sure some of our other integrations may be of interest: http://www.pagerduty.com/partners/ http://www.pagerduty.com/partners/. If you have any questions or need any help feel free to contact me.
- morgo 13y agoI would rather it use the API rather than email. I think it's also prone to misconfiguration, since you have to explicitly check a box to alert when back up. It just feels like a second class citizen.
- kenrose 13y agoI also work for PD. re: using the API, we'd rather it did so also, but for the longest time Pingdom only sent out e-mail and didn't have any sort of webhook. They apparently have webhook support in their new Beep Manager offering, but that's still in beta. re: misconfiguration, which check box are you referring to? The only two there are for ack timeouts and auto resolution.
- morgo 13y agoCheckbox: "Notify when Back Up" http://www.pagerduty.com/docs/guides/pingdom-integration-guide/ http://www.pagerduty.com/docs/guides/pingdom-integration-gui...
- djdclarke 13y agoCome check us out at https://www.statuscake.com https://www.statuscake.com - we do have Pagerduty integration via the API (It's not full featured yet to be honest, but I'd say within the next few weeks we'll have an even better connection)
- arb99 13y agoI use pingdom tools (with sms notifications), port-monitor.com, think i'll add this to them as well. Never hurts to have a few things checking sites. One thing this is missing is being able to look for a string on a page. (either checking it is there (like "Loaded"/"Latest Posts"...something to indicate all is working fine), or checking it isn't there (like "error", "database connection error" etc)
- oneeyedpigeon 13y agoDoesn't the correct use of HTTP status codes cover 99% of these cases?
- cdcarter 13y agoYes. But this is a testing service, so if some change has made it so in some case the correct status code isn't returned, it's nice to get a fast warning.
- arb99 13y agoAlways good to confirm what is actually being sent to the client. Never know whats happening inbetween. Some wrong configs and it could be showing the wrong content.
- ad1el2or 13y agoLooks like the front-end still needs some polishing. A cursory glance shows a type (My Settings -> Add Alert Contact -> Mobile (SMS) "...that suppor it..." , multiple clicks on the main logo pull up multiple "Loading" messages. Also, I find it odd that the interface is > 1280px wide(at least it is for me presently). I'm not used to a horizontal scroll on a 13" MBP. Overall, if it turns up less false positives than Pingdom, I'll be happy.
- jdaley 13y agoI set my time zone to +10:00 in settings, and now my web site is "up since -9 hrs, -40 mins". Other than minor things it's working well so far.
- ape4 13y agocron + wget + mail
- Naushad 13y agoHave been using this service since the time id had pretty bad UI, was correct each time with most updates to SMS via Twitter in India. Now, the UI is amazing, though we use it only for few seconds.
- JeremyMorgan 13y agoOur company has been using this service for quite a while. Works very well for our multiple websites, spread out over multiple servers/services.
- gpmcadam 13y agoWe used this at the place I work, but we reached the 50 site limit quickly and were baffled that there was no pay-for-more option. Anyway, we ended up using StatusCake[1] instead, if anyone is looking for an alternative with more features and less restrictions. [1] https://www.statuscake.com/ https://www.statuscake.com/
- dxchester 13y agoIf you want to host your own, ntf is a good open source option: http://code.shutterstock.com/ntf http://code.shutterstock.com/ntf
- smallegan 13y agoInteresting...I created an MVP off of a domain I bought a few years ago called http://www.uptimebot.com http://www.uptimebot.com It has been on the back burner for a bit now because I wasn't able to get traction/vistors onto the site...I guess maybe I should figure out what I was doing wrong.
- smallegan 13y agoIf anyone checks this out and has any feedback for me I'd be appreciated. You can leave it as a comment or shoot it to the e-mail in my profile.
- jbrooksuk 13y agoWe've been using Uptime Robot for a couple of years at Blue Bay Travel.