15 Customer's Opinions of Mon.itor.Us

Within 6 months there had been over 100 posts and reviews talking about different aspects of website monitoring and accessibility issues. In almost all of them Mon.itor.Us was mentioned as a default. Here we want to summarize the most interesting ones talking of website performance testing and monitoring tools.

Opinion 1
3 Free Tools to Monitor your Website's status
Published on October 15, 2008

Of three websites to monitor websites we found Mon.itor.Us to be the most powerful service. Not only do they give automated email alerts, but they also provide tools to enable reporting of site response times, outages, as well as resource utilization and tracking of site visitors. If you experience frequent server problems, or if you manage a business-critical website, you should definitely monitor your website.

Opinion 2
Dedicated hosting - Free Performance, Availability and Traffic Monitoring
Published on Monday, 13 October 2008

Looking for a company which provides free performance monitoring, availability monitoring, traffic monitoring, etc? Look no further, Mon.itor.Us monitors 24/7 and helps users quickly identify faults and deficiencies to ensure continuous operations and allows the ultimate web experience. Mon.itor.Us is currently monitoring over 134,000 web sites right now and I'm sure there will be more in the future.

Opinion 3
Website Performance testing tools
Published on October 12, 2008

Now you can monitor you website very easily with Mon.itor.Us. Mon.itor.Us is a free online service which provides tools to enable monitoring and reporting of site response times and tracking of site visitors. You customize automated alerts and check the performance of the website and view the effects for changes to the website performance and track the reports very easily.

Opinion 4
The Best Free Website Uptime Monitoring Services on Internet
Published on October 7th, 2008

Among 5 free sites for minimizing downtime, I liked Mon.itor.Us which enables monitoring and reporting of site response time. All you need is a web browser and an internet connection. The use of software as a service (SaaS) provides significant cost and simplicity benefits over traditional software models.

Opinion 5
The Best Free Website Uptime Monitoring Services on Internet
Published on on October 5, 2008

Among the top ten monitoring service providers, we found Mon.itor.Us to be in the top 4. Website monitoring is important for site owners so they can know how there website is performing so they don't lose visitors. If your server is having a problem then you will be alerted via e-mail or text messages. Sign up for a couple of services to ensure the best performance of your site.

Opinion 6
5 Good Server Monitoring Tools
Published on September 22, 2008

Of 5 good monitoring tools for your server, I found Mon.itor.Us to be my favorite. It has more tools and is completely free. Mon.itor.us will provide you the best performance monitoring, availability monitoring, traffic monitoring, etc.

Opinion 7
Free Performance, Availability and Traffic Monitoring
Published on September 19th, 2008

Mon.itor.Us may have a silly name but it offers free and amazing monitoring tools for your website. From an easy to use Ajax powered dashboard, you can check server performance and availability generate uptime reports, track visitors and other system resources which are important. Mon.itor.Us is currently monitoring over 134,000 web sites right now, and I am sure there will be many more to come in the future.

Opinion 8
Monitor Website Up / Downtime: 30+ Free Web Services and Tools
Published on August 21st, 2008

Out of 30 different websites and tools we thought Mon.itor.Us to one of the best services for website monitoring. Mon.itor.Us monitors HTTP/HTTPS, POP3, IMAP, FTP, TCP/IP and more. We all know you can't monitor your website 24/7, so it's important to know how your website is doing all the time. Without website monitoring your website can go down for several days or hours and this can damage your reputation, make you lose visitors and more importantly revenue. Fortunately this is a free service which checks your website from time to time and will notify you if there is a problem.

Opinion 9
13 Free and Cheap Website Monitoring Services
Published on August 25, 2008

Why purchase a monitoring software service at a high cost when you can monitor you website for free. Since so many people have there own blogs and websites its important to know when your site is down or having a problem. Mon.itor.Us may have a cute name but this doesn't mean it's limited. It's free and provides e-mail alerts and gives basic reports for uptime and response time. The user interface may look simplistic but the service delivers a more complex service than most.

Opinion 10
Monitor Your Website(s) Up-Time FREE
Published on June 12, 2008

I have been very pleased with Mon.itor.Us and am amazed it's free. I've been working with servers for 8 to 9 years now so it's great that Mon.itor.Us notifies me when servers go haywire on us. Mon.itor.us doesn't just monitor websites but the server as a whole (via IP.) I highly recommend this service to every webmaster whether large or small.

Opinion 11
15 Tools to Help You Develop Faster Web Pages
Published on June 12th, 2008

Of 15 tools to help develop faster web pages we found Mon.itor.Us to be one of the best. Mon.itor.Us is free and provides you with tools to monitor performance, availability and traffic statistics. These are all important when creating and maintaining a web application so you're in tip-top shape.

Opinion 12
Free Site Analytics Tools
Published on May 9, 2008

Of several free site analytics tools we found mon.itor.us to be one of the best tools. One of its unique features not seem in other commercial services was that they can research web traffic correlations with uptime and performance all in one place. Mon.itor.Us provides tools for performance research, web analytics and business intelligence. Mon.itor.Us also generates uptime reports, tracks visitors, and alerts its users in case of abnormalities.

Opinion 13
Some cool web mentoring websites
Published on Friday, April 25, 2008

I have been investigating several websites for monitoring and found the best of all of them at Mon.itor.Us. Mon.itor.Us is free and has all the features you need like charts, graphs, internal monitoring, benchmarking and many more. They will send you alerts when there are problems and give you a weekly report concerning your site. This is definitely something that you should have.

Opinion 14
Track Your Website Status using Monitor.Us
Published on Tuesday, April 22, 2008

There are several server status notification tools on the web these days and the latest I found was Mon.itor.Us. While this server primarily helps you track you service status it also can track visitors effectively. The interface and map is beautiful and you can track on the basis of countries, IPs, cities, OS, Browsers and keywords. Other nice features include the Widget option so you can create embeddable widgets to track your server performance and Snapshot which helps you track all your server status performance. Even with some minor annoyances Mon.itor.Us is still a wonderful tool for webmasters.

Opinion 15
Use Mon.itor.Us to keep an eye on your Web site
Published on April 10th, 2008

My site went down but luckily I was informed thru Mon.itor.Us of the problem. It was down for about a hour a couple weeks ago because my host's database server had problems I've been told. Luckily I didn't need to have to wait for someone to e-mail since I've been using this free service Mon.itor.Us which informs me when I have problems.



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Monitis Customer Satisfaction Survey for Mon.itor.Us

Mon.itor.Us conducts customer surveys regularly and gives serious consideration to the responses. Recent survey reported unprecedented participation level and gave positive ideas for new Mon.itor.Us developments.

More than 600 survey participants representing Internet, Technology, Consulting, Banking, Telecommunication, Healthcare, Hospitality and other sectors, provided valuable comments about their attitude towards the Mon.itor.Us service. 94 % of responses indicate service satisfaction, 87.2% will recommend it to others, a 17% increase versus similar survey in 2007. Considering that Mon.itor.Us community is currently 8 times larger than before, the impact of 87% is more influential.

Interesting results are reported in Mon.itor.Us Blog.

External Web Monitoring for eHealth Applications

The Internet provides big contributions in health care. More and more applications move online. Web-based applications are less expensive and started to compete with traditional healthcare IT applications. The Single Web browser interface allows views or the ability to exchange information, and can also migrate to mobile/wireless platforms. Healthcare-related applications become complex. There are web sites that provide information (content) to consumers and physicians. Recent developments in Health 2.0 focus on communication, information sharing and community.

Using the internet for healthcare purposes increases end-user dependency and the need for external monitoring to keep 24/7 availability and high performance of the web-based healthcare applications.

Let's discuss a case how Monitis External and Internal Monitoring can be used to keep the healthcare applications available and improve customer satisfaction.

HealthCenter Maintains High Level of Care Giving

A HealthCenter Hospital upgraded its medical practice management and EMR system. Now they use web-based solutions for the internal care path management; care processes starting from patients' admission to release for inpatient and outpatient practices. All lab tests and referrals are managed through the same web interface. Also they started to provide service online to their patients and have a system which connects with other databases and family doctors’ applications.

It was now important to keep the application flawlessly running. Any downtime would jeopardize care giving process. HealthCenter was using monitoring products but mostly to monitor low level systems performance. They signup to Monitis service as an additional monitoring.

First, they activated simple ping and http tests from External Monitoring to monitor availabilty of web pages from external perspectives to verify connectivity. They started to receive real-time monitoring data on uptime and page load speed of their eHealth application from end user perspective. It was also important to undertstand how their application was performing for their users from multiple locations. This data provided them with better perspectives on performance and availability of the site from other geographic locations. Monitoring web applications from multiple physical locations showed if a problem is localized to specific networks or whether it affects all users.


The internet extends to multiple countries, networks and vendors. It is important to distinguish real outages from short accidents on the network. With Monitis they were able to compare monitoring results from other locations by running checks within short time intervals.

External monitoring revealed that the Health Center Hospital's web application was slow or even "timed-out" at certain times of the day. So hospital management wanted to know the real cause of the problem. They activated Monitis Internal Monitoring and understood that the problem comes from one the processes on the server, which consumes server CPU and slows application response time.
The Health Center's web applications was complex, and simple connectivity couldn't cover fully end-user experience to understand full page load and availability of the critical content. They activated the Content Matching feature to monitor full-page vs. html download. This way they allowed monitoring solutions to test and analyze content for errors and check for timeouts. The login fields availability was monitored by the POST function.

But the web page contained other elements, and dynamic processes, such as images, functional buttons and critical workflows, the operations of which would highly affect end user experience. Monitis had a solution to that problem as well. HealthCenter activated Transaction Monitoring features and started to check web application down to every page component and every transaction to ensure that the critical flow is up and running. TM simulated end users' actions with the system. Within certain intervals it was checking the response time and performance of each page and its components, as well as each transaction and provided summary on the whole transaction or information on each individual process. In case of failure, the TM detailed view showed which component or which transaction had failed to open. Monitis TM provided a snapshot of the page that failed to initiate. This monitoring allowed HealthCenter management to receive real information on user experience and within a timely manner prevent problems before they cause serious outages, and customer complaints.

Internet business consists of more then just a Web server. HealthCenter activated mail servers, FTP servers, VPN, networks and systmes monitoring. Comparing Internal and External monitoring provides the HealthCenter management the ability to analyze and quickly and accurately determine the source of the problem. Escalated alerts and notifications to their emails, IM or phones allowed them to be aware of their web application performance anywhere and any time.

HealthCenter can now check not only infrastructure and computers, but complete coverage to full e-business infrastructure performance and functionality and can notice system deficiencies in advance and keep high level of care giving.

Using Monitis for External Monitoring of Your Websites

When you’re running a dynamic site, your online business cannot afford downtime. If your website is down your visitors and customers will go elsewhere. You need to know as soon as possible if your site is not available to your customer. You should be able to detect when something goes wrong before a failure occurred.

To provide exceptional customer satisfaction, you need to be aware of of your customers experience when they try to access your website. To accomplish this you will need to subscribe to an external website monitoring site.

External website monitoring service watches over your website and fully examines your customer experience with your website. It checks whether your site is available to your visitors and whether it is performing properly.

You can use Monitis, Web Server Performance, Availability, Traffic Monitoring and Analytics service, that offers different options for testing your customer experience from outside the firewall. The screenshot below shows Monitis external monitoring dashboard.

Monitis external monitoring agent periodically checks your web page and evaluates your customers. It retrieves real time reports about your website behavior, and alerts you if something fails in meeting the proper performance requirements.

Monitis presently monitors websites from four geographic locations: The UK, the USA, Panama and Germany. Reports on the Monitis dashboard show Response time in Milliseconds, Status and Location. Usually when the page load time reaches 2 seconds it requires little attention. If it is 4 seconds then it is considered slow. If the load speed is over 4 seconds and gets to 8-10 seconds, the site is considered critical.

Using Monitis external monitoring agent site owners can monitor all standard protocols for Web sites and web applications: website (http, https), VoIP (SIP protocol), Email server, Network/Device (TCP, UDP, FTP or PING), DNS and/or MySQL.

Monitoring every section is important for ensuring non-stop operations of your website, and these services will enable you to understand which part of the whole cycle caused the problem and malfunctioning of your website.

Monitis also monitors websites for specific phrases, such as checking important keywords, strings and functional parts of the website and signup or other forms. Activating GET command will allow the monitor to grab an entire page and look for key information. This part of the external monitoring is called content matching. POST command monitors functional forms of your website to ensure that they work properly.

Alerts and notifications are sent to contacts set by the customers: email, instant messengers and SMS (text messages to cell phones) according to notification rules, defined dynamically from the external monitoring module, and can be managed from Notifications module. Monitis will also report problems via RSS feeds.

Monitoring results are displayed on the dashboard (see below) easy to customize using drag and drop functionality and changing views to Line, Bar, Table views and Scatter chart. External monitoring reports are generated from the External Monitoring module for previous and current months. Weekly reports are emailed to all customers.