We are going to have series of launches in September. There are many interesting features currently under beta testing or final development stage.

Particularly you may expect SNMP and MySQL external monitoring protocols to be added to our current paid plans. So in addition to our existing 11 protocols (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, PING, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, UDP, TCP, TELNET and VoIP) we will provide quite a good coverage for different services remote checks.

Transaction Monitoring will be another major service we will start providing our users in September. It will allow monitoring not only a single page but the whole application flow for example login/logout flows, e-shop applications, Web and especially Web 2.0 services etc. Very much needed and requested service by our users.

Finally we are going to launch a completely new kind of web monitoring service which we will keep secret for now because of our competition, but expect an announcement from us somewhere in the middle of September. The people whom we provide the demos were very excited, so we hope you will like it too. Stay in touch!

Our paying users may contact us (info at monitis.com) to get early beta access to these new features.

We’re constantly working on improving our notification mechanism to eliminate false alerts. So in the scope of these improvements we want to inform you that from now on you will receive alerts only in case your website or server fails from both the US and UK locations together. This will reduce the number of false alerts caused by network problems in a one location.

Starting from today SMTP protocol check is already available. Currently it is only available from the UK location, but it will be expanded further for the US and other locations. Default port of SMTP is 25, but you can choose whatever port you need. With this addition you can monitor all the 3 most important e-mail protocols used now days, that is IMAP, POP3, SMTP, and be sure that your mail server is always available.