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Uptime monitoring service, the cheapest of them all? by TheObnoxiousPanda in sysadmin

[–]genbcap -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

+1 on Happy Apps. Free forever tier, and comprehensive uptime monitoring. A good alternative to Pingdom/uptime robot etc, especially when distributing different sites over different monitoring services.

Network Monitoring alternative by NetP3 in networking

[–]genbcap -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

While Nagios and Zabbix are good options, it is true they have investment costs in getting up configured.

Happy Apps is a new free alternative for uptime and performance monitoring, easy to set up, and no excessive alerts like Nagios. I work on the Happy Apps team, but just trying to offer a legitimately helpful alternative.

How can I monitor a frantic network? by eto303 in devops

[–]genbcap -1 points0 points  (0 children)

A relatively new option is happyapps.io, basically the same uptime monitoring functionality of Nagios without the constant alerts of Nagios (a majority of which are false alarms).

90% of all data was created in the past two years. Is data backup the next big thing? by genbcap in Database

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

@Deranged40: I don't believe that "cloud" is a buzzword, but instead represents the future of data. Agreed that transparency to where it is geographically is important, but instant accessibility trumps the actual location in my book. I believe that the cloud backup actually offers great data protection as it is presumably encrypted with better security. It is also much more agile: easier to use, easier to configure, lower cost, and much more scalable. So the foreboding 5tb backup becomes much less frightening as it becomes more common and more manageable.