When you choose an external website monitor it
has different criteria’s: See below what to look for:
Alert Downtime
Options
When a test fails, how will your team know?
Most availability tracking software offers some or all of the following alert
options:
·
Email
·
SMS
·
Integrations
(in apps like Jira ServiceDesk, Slack and Twitter)
·
Phone
call
·
Webhooks
Website
Monitoring Tool Alerts Total Control
Essential to maintain alerts.
You should have important features like:
·
Maintenance
windows
·
Escalations
·
Pause
checks when necessary
Uptime
Monitor User Management/SSO
Some businesses require multiple users to
have an uptime account.
Customers are ideal for new businesses, but
as the IT infrastructure for businesses grows, demand can change.
Large multinationals often use single sign-on
(SSO) integration. Uptime.com integrates with SSW into SSO.
The SSO configuration is tricky. If you
choose website monitoring with SSO integration, see the documentation and the
one with the dedicated support team.
Monitoring
Locations (Number of and Geographic Distribution)
International eCommerce businesses often
experience limited failures that affect the sale of one geographic location,
but not another.
False alarms are common when examining a
website from one place. Interruptions to the specified probe server may be
different and will not take long to use. By checking website performance from
multiple locations and giving instructions when at least two locations are
down, you help reduce the number of false alarms from monitoring tools on your
website.
It is important to not only monitor the number of monitoring sites but also to see where the inspection servers are.
Some external monitoring tools use multiple servers in one geographical area,
which may not help to fail elsewhere in the world.
Intervals
Testing
A shorter inspection time (less than 5
minutes) allows for quicker submissions, but a multi-step review with longer
distances may be needed to get a slower case. The more points or pages that a
check video offers, the better your performance will be.
Website
Downtime Status Pages
Status pages can be created to include
detailed information about the site's idle time and resolved ETA.
When companies have the ability to customize
the uptime.com status of your page, you can use it to create transparently
changes.
Determine
Your Needs Before Considering Cost
The best choice is to choose software that
has components to enable you to move on to the next layer as the needs grow.
But
what are your company’s current uptime monitoring needs?
At a minimum, the HTTP / S test shows network
availability. Lower cost plans tend to perform these checks more frequently,
and more expensive plans run in less than a minute.
The amount of traffic your website receives,
and the number of users that rely on your website, are the frequency you need
to make sure your website is up to date. available. You need to regularly
review thousands of pages of e-commerce companies, web-based applications, and
websites a month.
E-commerce companies, banks, and SaaS
companies need the information to confirm that all aspects of a device or store are
working properly. Just because your website is there doesn't mean it works
properly.
Every business must consider the price when
choosing a monitoring service. Free and paid forms are available. But you get
what you pay for. The free surveillance service does not check your website
often or check your billing location elsewhere. It does not keep a history of
checks or provide such data.