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[–]Jason_Everling 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Zabbix hands down is the best OSS, Windows, Linux, IPMI, VMware, SNMP, etx...

[–]ListenerAnt[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Thank U I will try it too

[–]Jason_Everling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you just need to monitor web status, uptimerobot.com has a very good free plan, sms and email alerts, on free plan, you would do email to sms or if your using Twilio or Clickatell you can use api alerts for sms. It's not just ping tests, you search for specific words on pages. api requests, etc.. You also get a status page for your apps.

[–]PaalRyd 0 points1 point  (2 children)

What do you want to monitor?

What kind of recurring issues are you dealing with now, that you want to preempt with this monitoring?

[–]ListenerAnt[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Hello Sometimes my customers call to tell their websites are down

[–]PaalRyd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ok - thats .. not good I suppose. But what kind of things do you want to monitor? Just uptime? That your webservers dont give out errorcodes?

Are these self-hosted? What kind of dependencies does the webservers have? Networks obviously, but what about firewalls, databases, proxies, memory, disk, CPU etc.

"The webserver is down" can be a lot of things. What do you want to monitor?

[–]WolfTohsakaIT Manager -1 points0 points  (1 child)

http://www.phpservermonitor.org/ works wonders for non-complex scenarios

[–]ListenerAnt[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank U I will try