Comments on: Alertyx Will Call You When Your Server Crashes

By: Manish Verma

Manish Verma — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 06:14:32 +0000

One of the main considerations in choosing a website monitor is the network of locations from where website is monitored so that one can get to know if the website is not accessible from a particular location. At this point of time I do not see the mention of monitoring locations in alertyx website.

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:18:32 +0000

You guys are missing the point. It’s all about phone alert and no above website mention offers such a service. I tried alertyx and very impressed. It call me and TTS they used is very clear sounding. It called and greeted me with my name and what service was failed. Simply mind blowing.

By: Ranjit Nayak

Ranjit Nayak — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:17:15 +0000

Have to agree with Justin that this is not unique or new. I have used Wormly with success. There were a few cases of false positives but all in all a very good experience with Wormly.

By: Mike Z

Mike Z — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:07:15 +0000

Wow, that is a very nice website design!

But from a technical point of view it is disappointing, as it does not offer any decent transaction monitoring services. I not only need an email when the site is down, but also when “only” a certain feature (e. g. shopping cart) breaks. For this, AlertSite with Dejaclick and AlertFox with iMacros are*** by far*** the best offerings. AlertFox can even monitor Ajax and Flash applets, which we find very useful.

By: Justin Moss

Justin Moss — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 04:50:12 +0000

I’ve tried Alertyx and I wasn’t all that impressed. However, I’ve extensively tested three much better online website monitoring services – Wormly, Site24x7 and Pingability – the results of which you can find here:

http://opinionroad.com/2009/07/12/website-monitoring-services/

Feedback about the article is very welcome.

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:58:08 +0000

I like the punch-line .. we wake you up, very clever indeed.

By: Anjum Saha

Anjum Saha — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:56:31 +0000

Phone call alert is neat. I liked UDP monitoring, definitely come in handy as media servers proliferate. Thumbs up alertyx team

By: George

George — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:47:14 +0000

if it works, its worth every cent. will definitely suggest it to my clients too.

By: Arjun

Arjun — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:45:59 +0000

Is this service just checking if the “port” of that application is up or is it doing more monitoring? Checking for port is a trivial job – most live servers have another machine dedicated to do ‘port health checks’by scanning- its a simple cron job – sending SMS/email is achieved by writing 5-7 lines of perl code script. If it allows application monitoring, thats nice (example, port may be up, but application is not responding, so you can’t just do a port scan – you need to understand if it is sending you valid data back)

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:34:09 +0000

Very unique and useful. Tried and it worked neatly!