New post about mon.itor.us at http://www.lildude.co.uk/2006/10/free-website-monitoring-with-monitorus/.

Fragments:

I needed something that reported not only availability, but performance too. So I turned to my trusty friend, Google, and after some extensive searching, and I happened to find mon.itor.us which seemed to suit my needs, and best of all, it can actually notify you via SMS, email, IM and RSS feed of any outages.

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Oh, and it can pretty much monitor any service you like. In the list of service types you’d like to test it lists the services you’d expect: HTTP, HTTPS, PING, SMTP, POP3, DNS, IMAP. This is pretty impressive already, but the most impressive things are that is also includes SIP (for VoIP apps) but also two invaluable options: TCP and UDP. So if, like me, you want to monitor MySQL, just select TCP from the list and enter the site URL/IP and add :3306 to the end. Bingo, you’re now monitoring MySQL.

All in all, it’s pretty impressive and the most complete free monitoring tool I’ve found. I’ll give it some time to do some monitoring and I’ll report back.

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Thanks for a positive review!

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Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is an application-layer signaling protocol for creating, modifying, and terminating sessions with one or more participants. These sessions include Internet telephone calls(you can see an example of initiating a call between two parties in the picture below), multimedia distribution, and multimedia conferences, which are growing more and more in popularity in recent years. To be able to initiate a call to the peer party(highlighted in red) one should find out the SIP number of the peer. This information is obtained by using SIP servers(highlighted in yellow), as you can see from the picture below, which in most cases are publicly available, which means they can be monitored by external monitoring tools, like mon.itor.us.

By using SIP test of mon.itor.us you can monitor you SIP server and get notifications in case you have some problems with that server, which will increase the reliability of your SIP server and VoIP services you provide by using that server. You can setup your SIP test by specifying IP address or hostname of your SIP server. By default if you don’t specify any port number the default port 5060(default port of SIP messages) will be checked, but you can also specify the port number other than that, which will suit your server’s needs. As you can see from the picture after adding an address and port of your SIP server mon.itor.us(highlighted in green) starts to check the availability of SIP servers by sending OPTIONS message of SIP protocol which is used to find out capabilities of SIP servers.

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With new add test form users can add multiple tests for a single URL in one step. We already notice that users like this new feature and use it quite intensively. Currently mon.itor.us supports 11 protocols for checking performance and availability of different network resources: http, https, ftp, ping for websites testing, pop3, imap and smtp for email servers monitoring, tcp/udp for generic network service monitoring and sip for Voice-over-IP monitoring (by checking sip gateways performance and availability).

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Mon.itor.us snapshot view is now available for Mac users as a widget. Users should signup at our site and add their URLs to test and then can see the latest performance and status data on the Mac desktop in real time. It allows to see the results per location.

Screenshots:

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mon.itor.us is not available in French language. We are very grateful to one of our users who helps in translation of the interface. We posted call for localization at our forum and we got the translation at http://forum.mon.itor.us/viewtopic.php?t=28. We are still looking for volunteers to translate in other languages -e.g. Spanish and Italian. Now we have English, German, Russian and French versions of mon.itor.us.

New post “Web Site Monitoring On The Cheap”:

“…As you can see, for free – it does even more than you would expect it to do. Also with that type of price tag, there is no reason why you should not at least try it out. The service is still in beta, so there might be a bug or two. In the long run though, if it can keep doing what it is doing, it should have a very bright future ahead of it.”

take a look at www.greatweb20tools.com/webmasters-bloggers-tools/monitorus/

Another great article about mon.itor.us just posted on worldtechlogic at  http://www.worldtechlogic.com/2006/12/04/monitorus-free-network-and-website-monitoring/.

A fragment from the article:

“Downtimes have been nightmares for all of us. It takes at least 1-2 hours during the day and 5-6 hours during the night before you find out that your websites down. Also keep in mind that your hosting provider may not able and/or may not be interested to provide you with objective uptime report. Indeed, very few providers can do monitoring from outside of their infrastructure, so for example when the router is down you will get false positive uptime report. ISPs do not always give out their network monitoring data, as well. There is no way we can monitor our websites 24 hours a day. Thankfully, there’s Mon.itor.us.”

You can digg the article at http://digg.com/search?area=all&age=7&sort=new&s=mon.itor.us&submit=Search

Sourcio monitoring service mon.itor.us today is the most popular URL in monitoring category – http://del.icio.us/popular/monitoring. We have been bookmarked by 700 people in total.

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