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Maybe now they'll find the time, money, give-a-shit or whatever to address this maddening omission [1] (Can't omit check sources by geography). If nothing else

Maybe now they'll find the time, money, give-a-shit or whatever to address this maddening omission [1] (Can't omit check sources by geography). If nothing else, this move will give me a recognizable name to refer to when trying to convince certain folks to dump some of the truly awful monitoring services out there. Not long ago I encountered a place that was paying one of the old giants $1100/yr per target for simple pings and email only alerts. 1: http://pingdom.uservoice.com/forums/113203-my-pingdom/suggestions/2223355-ability-to-choose-which-probe-servers-to-use http://pingdom.uservoice.com/forums/113203-my-pingdom/sugges...

edwhitesell 12y ago
I've never used Pingdom (or any service like it), but I've considered building a monitoring service for a number of years. The ability to configure monitoring and/or alerting by geographic region (if not specific nodes) has always been in the top 5 list of features.
- toomuchtodo 12y ago
  Now may be your time to build your service.
  - windexh8er 12y ago
    Agreed, but wait until I build mine first. ;) Pingdom seemed to be the service that was one of the more prominent first to market options and then promptly sat on their laurels waiting for a buy-out. That seems to have come to fruition. Based on the quality of product Solarwinds offers, I will now go delete any remaining monitoring I've been using from them. I think the market could use a really good monitoring platform that does a lot more than what's on the service offering from the likes of Pingdom.
    - freakezoid 12y ago
      Take a look at PRTG from Paessler ;)
Andys 12y ago
Off the top of my head, siteuptime.com and copperegg.com offer this
wspeirs 12y ago
I'm working on a startup[1] that provides internal & external site monitoring[2], and I hadn't thought of that feature... good call! Currently it shows 2 graphics: the response time from each location and the aggregate for the week by day. We only have New York and California locations, but we plan on expanding to Europe soon. If anyone is having a slow day at work and wants to play, feedback is always appreciated: https://www.metrink.com/whitelabel https://www.metrink.com/whitelabel Shameless self-promotion over :-) [1] https://www.metrink.com https://www.metrink.com [2] https://www.metrink.com/whitelabel https://www.metrink.com/whitelabel

edwhitesell 12y ago

I've never used Pingdom (or any service like it), but I've considered building a monitoring service for a number of years. The ability to configure monitoring and/or alerting by geographic region (if not specific nodes) has always been in the top 5 list of features.

toomuchtodo 12y ago
Now may be your time to build your service.
- windexh8er 12y ago
  Agreed, but wait until I build mine first. ;) Pingdom seemed to be the service that was one of the more prominent first to market options and then promptly sat on their laurels waiting for a buy-out. That seems to have come to fruition. Based on the quality of product Solarwinds offers, I will now go delete any remaining monitoring I've been using from them. I think the market could use a really good monitoring platform that does a lot more than what's on the service offering from the likes of Pingdom.
  - freakezoid 12y ago
    Take a look at PRTG from Paessler ;)

Andys 12y ago

Off the top of my head, siteuptime.com and copperegg.com offer this

wspeirs 12y ago

I'm working on a startup[1] that provides internal & external site monitoring[2], and I hadn't thought of that feature... good call! Currently it shows 2 graphics: the response time from each location and the aggregate for the week by day. We only have New York and California locations, but we plan on expanding to Europe soon. If anyone is having a slow day at work and wants to play, feedback is always appreciated: https://www.metrink.com/whitelabel https://www.metrink.com/whitelabel Shameless self-promotion over :-) [1] https://www.metrink.com https://www.metrink.com [2] https://www.metrink.com/whitelabel https://www.metrink.com/whitelabel