Ask HN: What are some good lightweight server monitoring services?

3 points by eremzeit 10 years ago | 4 comments

I'm one-person team and I'm just looking for a service that will ping my servers at some interval and send me an email or text if the response doesn't match some pre-configured match parameters.

Pager-duty would work but 10 bucks a month seems too expensive. I know there must be better alternatives out there.

update: Looks like I misunderstood pager duty. It doesn't handle the uptime checking; it just manages notifications and escalation.

bigiain 10 years ago |

I'm happy with UptimeRobot, but they're not a heap less than $10/month.

If it's not really worth $10/month to you, do you really care that much? By the time you've "rolled your own" to save $10/month, how much time will you have spent and how close to the reliability of a bespoke service can you get for significantly less money? A cron job and a perl script or two on a $3/month vps will let you _say_ you're monitoring your servers, but if your monitor is less reliable that your web servers it's just going to wake you up on weekends and get ignored...

stephenr 10 years ago |

https://pingability.com has a free plan that will test once per hour if thats often enough for you. $10 a month will give you once every 5 minutes.

cdvonstinkpot 10 years ago |

http://monitority.com/

eremzeit 10 years ago | |

Interesting. Though, why when I activate my account does an entity called "Bllion Signup Wizard" ask me to grant access to my gmail contacts?