Author: Brad Canham

IRCE: Online Retail – Monitoring the Cost of Things Great and Small

As many of the online retailers we spoke with at Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition (IRCE) noted, putting together all of the pieces for a successful online presence is difficult. Many of the online retailers at the show were at IRCE to out-source pieces of their business since it is more effective and cost-effective to do so. In many cases. Dotcom-Monitor’s suite of Application monitoring, website monitoring, and other network monitoring tools make it easier for the online retailer s to focus on what they’re best at – serving customers.

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Dotcom-Monitor Releases Uptime Meter Freeware Tool for Website Monitoring

Dotcom-Monitor has announced the general availability of its Uptime Meter, a new tool to monitor and display a website’s uptime and performance in 30-minute intervals. Dotcom-Monitor’s Uptime Meter is available free-for-download at Dotcom-Monitor’s site.

Dotcom-Monitor’s Uptime Meter tool provides customers a unique, easy-to-use, targeted solution for quickly monitoring and validating uptime that affects website performance and revenues. The Uptime Meter is designed to aggregate uptime and automatically update and display the results on the user’s website via the Uptime Meter Button. The Uptime Meter Button displays accurate update metrics, such as “Uptime 99.999%”, based on the aggregated data since the date of original implementation.

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Enhanced Web Application Monitoring Service – New Traceroute Service

Dotcom-Monitor has announced that its Web Application Monitoring service has been dramatically improved as a result of a new Dynamic Macro Recorder with full support for parameters with dynamic values. The company also announced the release of its Intelligent Traceroute Service − an advanced tool for troubleshooting network-related problems, such as outages, poor network performance, or Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)-related problems.

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SIP Monitoring for VoIP Systems – Uptime and Performance

Dotcom-Monitor’s new SIP monitoring service makes live periodic SIP-based calls to VoIP devices, providing real-time monitoring, alerts, and performance reports regarding SIP component connectivity. When a problem is detected, the SIP monitoring notification feature sends an alert via phone, pager, email, or SMS. Additionally, real-time connectivity status reports are provided via an intuitive online Dashboard interface offering sufficient detail to help pinpoint where the error condition is occurring. This reporting functionality also includes detailed historical reports and charts for managing VoIP systems and components, including Service Level Agreement (SLA) compliance issues.

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Dotcom-Monitor Adds New Website Monitoring Station in Tel Aviv

Dotcom-Monitor announced today that it has opened a new web monitoring station in Tel Aviv, Israel, that allows its customers to measure the performance of their websites in this significant Middle East market. Using Dotcom-Monitor’s service, companies on the Internet can proactively monitor how well their websites and web applications respond to various user actions, such as page viewing, online shopping and online form usage, from an external user’s perspective.

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Website Monitoring Network Expands – New Dallas, Texas, USA Station

Dotcom-Monitor, the leader and innovator in advanced website monitoring services, today announced the debut of its new monitoring station in Texas, United States. The station, one of eleven owned and operated by Dotcom-Monitor around the world, creates an even greater degree of assurance for the company’s e-business, Internet Service Provider (ISP) and Application Service Provider (ASP) clients that their Internet services are performing at maximum effectiveness.

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Web Server Monitoring Comes to Australia – Global Website Monitoring

Dotcom-Monitor has just added Sydney as its newest web server monitoring location, bringing executive class monitoring to Australia.

The Sydney’s monitoring station is a robot that visits a company’s web site, simulating a human visitor, and performs various functions, including surfing, form-testing, shopping cart usage, etc. Performance speed, accessibility and response times simulate a human user’s experience.

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Private Agent Monitoring, Providing 24/7 Checks of Websites, Networks

Dotcom-Monitor, the leader and innovator in advanced website monitoring services, today announced an expansion of its pioneering website monitoring services to include Intranet applications, database servers, routers, and other server-based hardware/software located within a company’s firewall. The new ‘Private Agent’ service, now available from Dotcom-Monitor, gives enterprises a powerful new tool for ensuring the health of mission-critical services operating inside an organization’s network.

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