Systems health and performance monitoring provider Monitis now offers a free SNMP monitoring service. The user can download and install Monitis Agents on any Windows, Linux or Solaris computer and then use the MontorSNMP web interface to add device monitors. SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a network protocol used to monitor and manage network devices, servers, databases and printers. According to Wikipedia:

An SNMP-managed network consists of three key components:

1. Managed devices

2. Agents

3. Network-management stations (NMSs)

A managed device is a network node that contains an SNMP agent and that resides on a managed network. Managed devices collect and store management information and make this information available to NMSs using SNMP. Managed devices, sometimes called network elements, can be any type of device including, but not limited to, routers, access servers, switches, bridges, hubs, IP telephones, computer hosts, and printers.

December 18, 2008, San Jose – Monitis introduces a smarter approach to website and IT monitoring. Monitis Inc., a leading provider of end-to-end IT monitoring solutions, today announced the availability of new line of “on-demand” monitoring services that enable organizations to choose only the monitoring services that they need.  Each service, such as the Monitis SNMP monitoring service, is available for free in its basic form, with pay-based premium options.

Unlike traditional monitoring services, which usually require customers to purchase packages that monitor multiple systems, whether or not they are implemented, Monitis’ on-demand monitoring services enable customers to fully customize which services they need.  Customers can incrementally add new monitoring services as they bring new systems online.

“With our on-demand approach, customer chooses just what he needs and nothing more,” explained Hovhannes Avoyan, CEO of Monitis.  “For example, a customer might need website traffic and email monitoring for now, but as they grow, they will need server and desktop monitoring to make sure their operations remain reliable and on-line.  This approach grows as our customers grow, so we provide instant pain relief for immediate issues.”

The free services will provide unlimited number of monitors although the monitoring interval options will be limited while premium services can provide up to 1 min. monitoring intervals. The free version features will be enough for basic usage by individuals and small businesses, while premium option will be available for professional usage.

Current monitoring services available include newly launched SNMP monitoring at www.monitorsnmp.com, and almost 3 years old free web monitoring http://mon.itor.us, and 2 years old premium web monitoring www.monitis.com.

Monitis, a leading provider of end-to-end IT monitoring services, announces holiday season promotional campaign. The offer includes up to 30% yearly subscription discounts and free domain names.

Monday, December 15 – San Jose – Today Monitis starts its traditional holiday promotional campaign. From Dec. 15 to Jan 15 for each purchase over $120 via recently launched Custom Plan Builder, the customer will receive a 50% discount. In addition, these customers as well as current and new subscribers to Basic and Plus yearly plans will receive one top level domain name for free (.com, .net, .org, or .info). Domains acquisition and management will be done via Monitis-owned AptDomain.

With recently launched Customer Plan Builder each of potential Monitis user groups, such as web masters, system and network administrators, help desk and IT service providers, IT managers, Value Added Resellers (VARs), Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) can build their own on-demand based monitoring plan. Monitis provides tailor made plans for system health monitoring, external uptime and availability monitoring, performance and problem root case analysis tools, helping to reduce downtime and cost of operations.

Monitis had a similar successful campaign one year ago. Many companies in 2007 subscribed for yearly monitoring plans and stated the New Year with more confidence and peace of mind.

About Monitis
Monitis, Inc. is a one-stop shop for IT monitoring.  As a leading provider of server, network, and web application monitoring services helps to monitor business services end-to-end and enables problem quick root cause detection.  Monitis serves more than 25,000 service subscribers, monitors more than 130,000 hosts and performs over 20 million checks per day.

12 Dec, 2008, San Jose – Monitis, a leading provider of end-to-end IT monitoring services, launched a new Custom Plan Builder, enabling customers to identify and subscribe only for the monitoring services they need.

Monitis provides end-to-end monitoring Software as a Service (SaaS), connecting together the end-user experience and system health views.  In contrast to common “silo” monitoring, this holistic approach focuses on business services management and enables quick discovering and tracing of end-user problem up to its root cause. Till now Monitis services were “wrapped” into standard plans, and specific customer requirements were handled through direct communication with the support team. Monitis changed that today by releasing the Custom Plan Builder, which helps the users to define the type and the quantity of monitors, number of SMS alerts and number of sub-accounts they need. The Builder calculates monthly and yearly prices and customer can instantly subscribe using Paypal or credit card.    

Monitis Custom Plan Builder allows differentiating the needs per each user group like webmasters, system and network administrators, enterprise IT specialists and  managers, helpdesks, ISPs, MSPs and VARs. Customers can now make their own customized plan by defining amount of monitors per each of 4 types of monitors such as 1) external end-user view monitors, 2) internal network/system health monitors, 3) multi-step applications or transaction monitors, and 4) traffic monitors/web analytics. Customizable dashboards bring “silo” monitors into comprehensive business views.

“Our goal is to make Monitis truly on-demand and highly customizable service” says Hovhannes Avoyan, CEO and Founder, “We enabled our users to control their views, alerting rules, set 3^rd party access and flexibly configure the  monitors. And now users can build their own customized plans and pay only for the services they really use.” Users may sign up to 15 days free trial to test the service before subscribing.

About Monitis

Monitis, Inc. is a one-stop shop for IT monitoring.  As a leading provider of server, network, and web application monitoring services helps to monitor business services end-to-end and enables problem quick root cause detection.  Monitis serves more than 25,000 service subscribers, monitors more than 130,000 hosts and performs over 20 million checks per day.

Monitis Team is introducing another expansion to its Windows Agent. From now on it is possible to monitor not only CPU utilization per process, but also overall utilization of CPU for Windows OS. This feature was available for Unix/Linux OS for a long time, so now it is available also for Windows.

Monitis, a leading provider of IT management and monitoring, launched Account Management module for managing multiple customer accounts and provide proactive IT monitoring and support to SMEs.

Monitis partner program for VARs now serving over 150 IT Service Providers from 40 countries allows delivering proactive IT monitoring and support services for small and mid-sized companies.   Monitis professional monitoring platform helps VARs to shift from re-active support to proactive monitoring, and gain significant returns and improve their clients’ IT performance and business productivity.

VAR features became available at Monitis this month, such as ability to create and manage multiple customer accounts, provide viewing privileges on every page and module to shared parties.  Accounts management module allows IT Service Providers to ensure transparency of service and effective reporting to its customers, escalation of various views and reports to different customers and groups.  Monitis VAR features support the creation of many customers each having own access to their monitoring results. VAR customers can access their IT monitoring live dashboard and view real time reports of their IT infrastructure performance.  Monitis Account Management features empower VARs and IT Service Providers for making their service comprehensible.

Additionally, Monitis online clients will also benefit from Account Management module.  It enables them to share certain monitoring results with other groups.  For example IT specialists (over 55% within Monitis customer base) can setup management dashboards for business managers and grant them a better control and awareness of their IT performance. 

About Monitis

Monitis, Inc. is a one-stop shop for an online presence.  As a leading provider of server, network, and web application monitoring services helps companies execute more effectively, Monitis also offers several hosting packages, free email, SLL, e-commerce as well as uptime, systems health monitoring and SEO services.  Monitis serves more than 25,000 service subscribers, monitors more than 130,000 hosts and performs over 20 million checks per day.

Monitis Team is introducing an account management possibility, which will allow to create different sub-accounts with read-only access within any plan starting from Basic. This service is charged on per sub-account basis, which means you can add more sub-accounts on-demand. The feature will allow to provide and share the particular modules or pages with your friends, co-workers, upper management, customers, etc.

Monitis Team is introducing a notification feature for transaction monitors to receive alerts in case of problems in web application flow. This will help you to act and eliminate application problems quickly. For instance users can monitor complete e-commerce flows such as checkout process and reduce downtime for their online shops and the impact of downtime on sales. Notifications setup is simple: just select the type of checks from the drop down list and click on the Specify Rules link. You will be presented with a popup window where you can setup the rules for each corresponding notification contact. The same can be done from within the particular transaction check by clicking on the Notification Rules button in the edit mode. By adding this major point Transaction Monitor becomes fully functional feature with unique features. Monitis supports SMS, email and instant messenger notifications.

We just started a micro-blogging thread on twitter to keep our customers updated on new features, updates etc. Please become followers at www.twitter.com/monitis. There we will publish all our recent news and will provide information about current development efforts along our roadmap.

Mon.itor.Us, a leading free website monitoring service announces a critical milestone of conducting over 20 million checks per day. Currently 124,000 monitors are registered and among 12 possible check protocols 75,000 are HTTP monitors. Mon.itor.Us is serving a fast growing community of 25,000 members who are webmasters, bloggers, marketers and IT professionals engaged in more than 20 industry sectors and 40 more countries.

Monitis launched the Free website monitoring service Mon.itor.Us at CeBIT 2005, the largest IT trade fair. Since then it has become a unique comprehensive and free 24/7 monitoring service to check availability, performance and accessibility of websites, servers and networks for diagnosing and preventing issues before they cause critical web outages.  Mon.itor.Us’ unique dashboard provides the opportunity to integrate real time web traffic reports with the web performance metrics. Webmasters can diagnose traffic and conversion issues related with slow page load time and discover the root cause of the problem which maybe high server CPU consumption or low memory.  Besides monitoring, Mon.itor.Us provides various valuable benchmarks and industry performance reviews, shares information about popular and reliable hosting providers, registrars, and ranks internet service providers. Obviously Mon.itor.Us collects unique data and is a unique performance research portal in the market. 

In the last days Mon.itor.Us has reached a milestone of 20 million checks per day for over 75,000 websites.  Mon.itor.Us provides free availability and performance monitoring from external monitoring locations for websites, mail servers and network devices. Most of the checks are HTTP based, making half of all checks, second in popularly PING tests make less than 10% and HTTPS is less than 5%.  The rest of the checks are FTP, POP, SMTP, TCP, UDP, IMAP and SIP/VoIP checks.  Mon.itor.Us conducts these protocol checks 24 hours, 7 days per week and notifies webmasters about problems through email, SMS and instant messengers. 

Website monitoring is very important for many reasons. Every 100ms of page load latency costs Amazon 1% of profit and drops 20% of Google traffic if the page took 500ms longer to load. Mon.itor.Us helps to discover not only failures but slow page loads, which helps websites to generate additional profit.

During only last 6 months Monitis free service Mon.itor.Us has received over 200 reviews and posts on community blogs. ”We are committed to provide more free services” says Hovhannes Avoyan, CEO and Founder of Monitis, “Very soon we will launch a new and very impressive line of free specialized monitoring services. Webmasters and IT specialists and even web entrepreneurs may find tons of useful services to improve IT infrastructure ROI“.

About Mon.itor.Us

Mon.itor.Us is the property of Monitis Inc. (http://www.monitis.com), a leading IT management and monitoring provider. Companies use Monitis website performance quality monitoring to gain a competitive advantage through efficient business execution, quality user experience and nonstop operations. Monitis is a leading provider of comprehensive IT monitoring and analytics. Companies use Monitis website performance monitoring to gain competitive advantages through efficient business execution, quality user experience and nonstop operations. Monitis checks and measures IT performance metrics globally and locally 24×7. The company serves more than 25,000 service subscribers and monitors more than 75,000 sites and devices, performed more than 20 million checks per day.