Competitive Intelligence Report For 3 Top Cloud Monitoring Tools

Monitis Dashboard Features

It starts out by showing the basics. You can make multiple tabs and place different information on each, so it’s not unlike a browser within a browser. Data for a specific monitor is placed into a widget you can easily re-size or drag and drop. In these widgets you can see a table or chart of monitoring data.

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Suitable for Both Public and Private Clouds

With its Universal Cloud Monitoring Framework, Monitis can now sync to other Cloud computing providers very quickly - from Rackspace, GoGrid, Softlayer, and more. Monitis’ Universal Cloud Monitoring Framework will automate monitoring in highly dynamic cloud environments, where customers’ servers maybe added and terminated according to the load by management software or manually.

Given this dynamism, setting up end-user experience monitoring can become a tedious, resource intensive and error-prone process. Monitis’ Universal Cloud Monitoring Framework automates the configuration of external monitoring and server monitoring tools every time a new installation is called for - saving IT managers and system administrators around the world enormous time and hassle.

Monitis Monitoring Dashboard to Convert from Flash to Open-Source HTML5

As a SaaS provider of IT management, Monitis has always been committed to making its interface as fast and user-friendly as possible. Given increasing concern surrounding the problems with Flash (battery drain, not open-source, and security vulnerabilities), Monitis was already sensitive to the issue.

The results from a recent user survey showed that Monitis users want faster-loading, non-flash charts, Monitis realized that the time had come to make the switch.

The new open-source HTML5 charts will load much faster and contain more interactive features. These new charts will be based on open-source Flot, a pure JavaScript plotting library for jQuery.

Latency of the Page Load Can be Fixed

Low page load times result in lost sales – and in Mozilla’s case, for its advertisers.  "Let’s start with the punchline: By making a few minor tweaks to our top landing pages, we can drive an additional 60,000,000 Firefox downloads per year", they say at the blog.  Research has shown that an 8 second load time (4 seconds above the optimal load time of 4 seconds) can result in a visitor loss of up to 75.75%.


Latency of page load is a real problem these days, but the good news is that there are ways to find out what’s working and what isn’t. And then you can take action. For instance, Monitis offers a monitoring service that tests the speed of full page loads.

By tracking the page load times of each individual image, CSS, JavaScripts, RSS, Flash and frames/iframes, the tool shows stats on the total number of objects, the size of each object, and load time for a web page. An easy-to-view format (in multi-color bar graphs) shows in load order or in a hierarchy.

Quality and Performance Online

Monitis’ Transaction Monitoring has numerous benefits.  It provides overall performance and availability figures for the business process.  Further, it analyzes each step within the transaction to ensure that it is working properly all the while giving detailed performance metrics and availability statistics for each step.  Additionally, it provides analysis and graphical reports to identify bottlenecks in the process and detect common points of failure.

Monitis Named to the OnDemand 100

In being named to the OnDemand 100, Monitis has been identified as a leader amongst its peers in developing a game-changing approach and technology platform that is disrupting existing markets and entrenched players. Monitis was selected based on its innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.

Suitable for Both Public and Private Clouds

With its Universal Cloud Monitoring Framework, Monitis can now sync to other Cloud computing providers very quickly - from Rackspace, GoGrid, Softlayer, and more. Monitis’ Universal Cloud Monitoring Framework will automate monitoring in highly dynamic cloud environments, where customers’ servers maybe added and terminated according to the load by management software or manually.

Given this dynamism, setting up end-user experience monitoring can become a tedious, resource intensive and error-prone process. Monitis’ Universal Cloud Monitoring Framework automates the configuration of external monitoring and server monitoring tools every time a new installation is called for - saving IT managers and system administrators around the world enormous time and hassle.

Saving IT Managers Time

Given this dynamism, setting up end-user experience monitoring can become a tedious, resource intensive, and error-prone process. Monitis’ Universal Cloud Monitoring Framework automates the configuration of external monitoring and server monitoring tools every time a new installation is called for - saving IT managers and system administrators around the world enormous time and hassle.

In addition to saving IT managers’ time, Monitis’ Universal Cloud Monitoring Framework gives users the confidence that comes from using a 3rd party tool to monitor Cloud infrastructure in an independent manner.

Monitis at Innovators' Showcase

451 Group Innovator Showcase started where Monitis as nominated innovator, will present new vision and roadmap at the conference, major new announcements to continue cementing its lead over conventional, software-based monitoring technologies.

Monitis believes that the Cloud is the biggest thing to happen in IT management. It is 100% Cloud-based, complete, and flexible, consolidating back-end, application, and cloud monitoring in an all-in-one, central monitoring service.

The platform is easily customizable and may be used for managing of all kinds of IT assets such as websites, servers, routers, switches, VoIP devices, DNS, databases, processes and any other IP devices. Monitis provides users with a comprehensive view of their system’s health and performance.

Monitis: All-in-One Systems Monitoring from the Cloud

• Is my site up?
• Why did my site crash?
• Is there a problem in my network?
• Is every aspect of my site function properly?
• Do I have control over my cloud-deployed data/application?
• What's my site traffic right now?

The answer is one ---

Monitis: All-in-One Systems Monitoring from the Cloud

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Monitis New Graphical Chart

Graphical chart view of all tests has been released. Visual summery of entire monitoring picture allows to see all external and internal tests and monitoring locations. By one click details are available.

Public Widgets on Monitis

Public widgets perform the similar function but right on customer’s website. As the public reports, users may decide which metrics they wish to display and which URLs they want to be tracked.

Monitis allows users to select fonts and text colors that match the rest of their pages for the HTML code which they may embed onto their pages. Each Widget is updated to display over the past week or month, the performance and uptime.

Widgets can objectively demonstrate the stability of the web page that shows how well does the site recently. Stability is a major component of image, therefore, stability of operation and accessibility of company's website. Monitis helps to strengthen company's image.

System Events Monitoring

New Monitis agent not only reports server resource utilization and configuration, but also security, application and other system events. The feature was among most frequently requested by user community and now it is available at no extra cost to Monitis subscribers!

Other improvements included in the current release: Open API, drill-down in Top 10 views, open source Firefox plugin, better reporting, enhancements in asset management.

Website Durability to High Traffic: Test for Assurance

Load testing models expected usage of a software program by simulating multiple users accessing the program concurrently. This testing is most relevant for multi-user systems, such as websites, web applications.

With the popularity of Web, B2B applications there are Service Level Agreements (SLA) involved. Oftentimes, there are large penalties if SLA's are not met.

Will your website survive load?

Monitis new Load Tester places load on the system raised beyond normal usage patterns, in order to test the system's response at unusually high or peak loads. The on-demand load testing service utilizes cloud infrastructure to instantly run load-generating agents from multiple nodes. Immediate feedback regarding site performance and scalability will be sent to the designated contacts.

Large Enterprises Use Monitis

Large company with a worldwide network of partners working on the company extranet application may receive complaints about speed of access and application performance. Monitis offers their user experience monitoring via software agents. Those could be easily installed right on their partner desktops.

Low-footprint agents continuously probe remote services and measure fault and performance of the corporate web server submitting performance data via internet to Monitis Central Server. Monitis Smart Agents use https protocol to go through local firewalls to submit data to the central server.

Corporate IT can monitor performance of their applications from their partners’ point of view using dashboard on the Central Server. Additionally they could also be notified about application, network, VPN, firewall failures and performance degradation and can quickly find the root cause.

Monitis Amazon EC2 Cloud Edition

Traditional existing systems are not adept to deal with last few years of rapid infrastructure changes but also require significant learning curve let alone continued maintenance.

Monitis allows IT administrators not only have to deal with the spiraling complexity of heterogeneous infrastructures such as SaaS, cloud computing, systems outside the firewall, etc but also spiraling out of control cost especially in a challenging economic environment.

Monitis Enterprise Edition will be available as Amazon Machine Image (AMI), but also as VMWare image and Citrix XEN image. It will make deployment quick and seamless. The price per server will depends on maximum number of monitoring nodes requires and will start from $499. Unlimited version will cost $9,999. A significant discount will be provided for education, healthcare and government organizations.

Monitis Journey to IT Management Peace of Mind

Complex enterprise systems easy to manage with Monitis end-to-end IT monitoring.

'Silo' monitors combined into Holistic Monitis Dashboard address growing complexity of IT infrastructure management to ensure:

• Root cause diagnostics
• Improves uptime and time-to-fix
• Eases manageability of complex systems
• Reduces operating cost

Free SNMP Monitor Released

Increasing in number and variety of customer groups evolved new business model at Monitis. It started series of on-demand services enabling customers to incrementally add new monitoring services as new systems come online. For example, businesses may only want to monitor; transactions, servers, desktops, netflow, traffic, printers, etc.

IT service providers may only want to look for affordable SNMP monitors to provide remote monitoring services to their clients. IT managers of small companies may only be interested in desktop monitoring. Businesses that use video conferences may be only interested in monitoring VoIP. Tourism sites may only need to monitor visitor traffic so they can develop the best marketing. Monitoring e-mail roundtrips can be something of interest for mail service providing companies. E-commerce sites may be interested most in transaction monitoring.

Each of these specific services will be at different URL's and include monitoring with alerts in case of problems. Additionally, these services will include weekly and monthly reports with possibilities to share and communicate the information to other interested parties.

SNMP Monitor has launched now in beta release. Stress testing service coming this week.

Seasonal Savings and Gifts at Monitis

Christmas is time to offer surprises and make customers happy at Monitis. The Custom Plan Builder is cool feature now and used more and more by webmasters, system and network administrators, enterprise IT specialists and managers, helpdesks, ISPs, MSPs and VARs. They make their own customized plans by defining amount and types of monitors. These customers will get holiday discounts to purchases over $120 via Custom Builder. The discounts reach 50%!

Many more customers current and new using/subscribing to Basic and Plus yearly plans will receive one top level domain name for free (.com, .net, .org, or .info). Domains acquisition and management will be done via Monitis-owned AptDomain.

Monitis is truly on-demand IT management and monitoring service now. Watch the video to acquaint with the features.