Monitis does On-Demand monitoring (http://startupsquad.com/2007/06/29/monitis-does-on-demand-monitoring/) article published in StartupSquad, the blog which is focused on the exciting ventures happening in US. In their words:

Pingdom, which has been trying to create some buzz by generating some not so relevant uptime stats, has some competition to keep them busy on the real work. Monitis is the one block that claims to offers online service for monitoring IT infrastructure, measuring performance and early notifying about current and upcoming problems.

Features include checking of websites, firewalls, routers, network, email servers, VoIP, applications, databases and other online assets 24×7. Alerts are via email, IM, RSS or SMS.

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Monitis added a free plan which allows external monitoring of one website. It also includes unlimited email and Instant Messenger alert notifications. The monitoring interval is standard for all plans, which is 5 minutes. For the registered users Monitis provides easy upgrade options to more professional plans.

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Several new advanced features will be available early in July. The new features will be included in the current plans of Monitis customers without additional charge. One of the important features currently under beta testing is the Applications or Transactions Monitoring.

In addition to HTTP monitoring, which checks the availability of a single page, Transaction Monitoring will allow checking complex multi-step web transactions and the whole application flow. We will provide our customers with an online tool to record user transactions sequence.

An example of transactions could be login, add item to shopping card, checkout, singup process. A recorded script will be running on regular intervals and Monitis dashboard will show the execution time in charts and table similarly to other checks; but most importantly we will notify our users in case of failure detected.

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Monitis platform helps businesses and individuals ensure the deliver of continuous and quality web services to their customers by providing visibility of the performance indicators and tools for early problem detection, identification, fixing and prevention. It is an on-demand platform which customers just use without worrying about installations, maintenance and infrastructure.

Monitis gives business and IT managers, operations, development and quality engineers, sales and customer care departments an understanding of their customer web experience. While other solutions may test individual components by monitoring behind-the-firewall services, Monitis provides a comprehensive service by collecting performance indicators from inside and outside of firewalls as well as directly from client browsers. Having all data in one place, the platform provides unprecedented level of control and manageability both for technical and business users.

Monitis particularly helps to:

Improve sales and customer satisfaction – poor web performance results in low conversion rate and reduced web income, prompting customers to leave a site.

Ensure web business continuity – often companies invest heavily in website design but are not aware of low availability of the site. It is like a shop which closed during normal working hours. By providing early problem notifications Monitis helps the customers reduce and prevent website outages.

Helps to  understand  the customers - by monitoring web traffic, Monitis provides reports from which country your web visitors come, who refers them , which browsers they use, which keyword they use to find your site, how certain events affect the traffic etc.

Understand your site load and plan capacity investments -  real-time tracking of unique visitors and page views in combination with performance metrics provide a unique opportunity to detect load issue and do capacity planning. Customers may detect for example at what load the site performance degrades indicating a need for hardware upgrade or a load balancer.

Control service level of your service providers – your business may also depend on web services provided by third parties. Today’s web applications are more a loose mosaic of services provided by external partners, internal business units,  ISPs etc. Monitis will help to check the SLA (Service Level Agreements) and detect the problem before it affects your business or website.

Monitis is using a proven technology to deliver the promise. The technology is well tested in Monitis’ sister service Mon.itor.Us - a popular free website monitoring service which is monitoring tremendous amount of websites. See more about our services at http://blog.monitis.com/index.php/services/

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The users often ask questions regarding payments with PayPal. Because www.monitis.com also uses PayPal as its only payment method, it will be worth to describe the process of payment. So after filling in the necessary info and accepting Terms of Service you are redirected to PayPal. In the following snapshot you can see an example of “Basic plan” as it is shown in PayPal. As you can see in the “Terms” section the first 30 days are totally FREE and only after that you should pay to use the service.

If you already have an existing PayPal account you should choose the corresponding option as it is shown in the following snapshot and fill in the necessary info for using your account.

Otherwise you should sign up for a PayPal account by choosing “No PayPal account” and filling the necessary info as it is shown in the following snapshot. You can use any credit card for opening a PayPal account(it will take a couple of minutes). It is worth to mention that all the information is confidential and is handled by PayPal which ensures it security.

So now when you’ve finished with subscription you will be redirected to Monitis home page and can use your e-mail and password for logging in to your Monitis account.

In case you have some troubles with your server or your server is unresponsive and you don’t have access to your server, you can use this module to gain access to your server(for restarting or some other urgent stuff) through ssh connection. To add ssh module click on the SSH link under the Tools category.

After adding this module, you need to log in to our server using the provided credentials, then by using the following command ‘ssh yourUser@yourServerIP’ you will get access to your server. When you finish, you will need to type ‘exit’ command and you will be disconnected from your server.