website-monitoring

Website performance monitoring tools

I have websites that we are performance tuning and wanted to know if anyone has a good tool for monitoring secure web sites? What I am looking for is a tool that can log on to a web site and test a few links and the performance. At least one of the links will access another web-based product using single sign on. I would set it up to ...

How do you monitor the availability of multiple websites

I need to ensure that any number of websites and services haven't bitten the dust. At the moment I rely on a simple 5 minute cronjob which which uses curl and a file of urls to check that all the responses are correct (200 or rarely 301). It all works on a basic level, I'm interested in more sophisticated open-source tools (statistics, ...

Recommend an automatic web application availiblity checker

Hi, I am looking for a piece of software that I can schedule to check that our web apps are up and running. I've used HP open view years ago, but remember it being quite expensive, I'm looking for something open source or cheap. So it would login in and do some simple actions maybe submit form and check for some text on screen that m...

Free Server Monitoring Service or Software

Looking for a free service, or software to monitor 2 websites, one is hosted on a linux machine, and the other a windows machine (though, shouldn't really matter). Any suggestions? ...

Advice needed for monitoring a website

I'm new to this site monitoring thing, so please bear with me. I'm looking for a good monitoring service for my website. What I'm trying do is make sure the site is running and working not just running (ie. responsive and working, not just responsive). For example, the database could be down, so the site is responsive but not working, t...

Why does Amazon.com have <!-- MEOW --> at the end of their landing page?

Why does Amazon.com have <!-- MEOW --> at the end of their landing page? I have heard that it is just some text that some sort of script or component looks for to tell if the entire page was rendered. Does anyone know if this is true, and if so, is it a good (or common) website monitoring practice? ...