We have everything set to give us email notifications and have a group (softwareadmin@company.com) that the emails go to.
Ask HN: How do you monitor your websites?
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#83I installed a node.js module that take a screens-shot of a web page, a module that compares two images, and a module that sends e-mails. Glued it together, put it on a 1$/month VPS. I now get an e-mail every time a web page that I'm interested in changes.
Re: Ask HN: How do you monitor your websites?
#84I installed a node.js module that take a screens-shot of a web page, a module that compares two images, and a module that sends e-mails. Glued it together, put it on a 1$/month VPS. I now get an e-mail every time a web page that I'm interested in changes.
what's the name of the module that takes screenshots?
Re: Ask HN: How do you monitor your websites?
#85I am curious to see other people's solutions.
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Re: Ask HN: How do you monitor your websites?
#86I was unable to find a solution that was able to monitor my websites and servers using a single service, so I decided to develop something[0] to scratch my own itch. It has been open for almost a year now and it is slowly gaining some traction. :) It allows you to monitor your server for resources, your websites for the uptime, SSL certificate, broken links and mixed contents errors. It also has a public status page for you to use. Also the setup is extremely easy as it is just a single binary (and it is open source!) to run using your own crontab.
Feel free to let me know what you think about it, feedback is always greatly appreciated.
Disclaimer: I'm the developer.
Re: Ask HN: How do you monitor your websites?
#87I installed a node.js module that take a screens-shot of a web page, a module that compares two images, and a module that sends e-mails. Glued it together, put it on a 1$/month VPS. I now get an e-mail every time a web page that I'm interested in changes.
what's the name of the module that takes screenshots?
Wild guess, maybe using puppeteer and it's page.screenshot.
https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/blob/v1.9.0/docs/a...
Re: Ask HN: How do you monitor your websites?
#88You can try WebGazer. It's a very user-friendly website monitoring tool and its cheap. I didn't get any false-alarms.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you worried about that endpoint being used for DoS or is it light enough?
The way i do it is running the checks in a background every x minutes and add the result in a json file. It’s fast and safe.
I'd guess you'd then also want to return a timestamp in the response and then fail if the timestamp is older than x minutes too
Re: Ask HN: How do you monitor your websites?
#90For my needs -- several websites -- a free solution and simple solution will be enough. Pings a few times per day would do. Even once per day might do.
What are free solutions?
One is Google Docs. What else?