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Monitis versus Site24x7

Posted by Hovhannes Avoyan | Posted in Monitis vs. Other services | Posted on 31-03-2009

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We continue comparing our service with other website monitoring services:

Site Monitoring Features

site24x7

Monitis

Monitoring Frequency

1min

1min

Monitored Protocols

HTTP,HTTPs, Mail, keyword check, DNS

HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, PING, POP3, IMAP, SMTP, SIP, DNS, TCP, UDP, MySQL. keyword check,

Alert Contact

SMS, Email, RSS

Email, SMS, instant messengers, RSS

Contacts

Unlimited

Unlimited

Multi-step applications (transaction) monitoring

Yes

Yes

User management (subaccounts)

-

Yes

Configuration management

-

Yes

Server CPU, memory, storage, process monitoring

-

Yes

Intranet application monitoring (agent based)

-

Yes

Web Visitor tracking

-

Yes

Customizable real-time dashboard

-

Yes

Embeddable widgets (iGoogle, Netvibes, Yahoo)

-

Yes

Web based

Yes

Yes

Dedicate instance in the cloud with permanent license (optional)

-

Yes

Price per 1 URL (1min)

$12.00

$0.40

 

For other comparisons see:

 

Monitis versus Internetseer @Watch

Monitis versus Pingdom

Mon.itor.us vs Internetseer


 

Monitis Enables System Events Monitoring

Posted by Hovhannes Avoyan | Posted in News, Press Releases | Posted on 31-03-2009

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Making easy, cost-effective all-in-one monitoring service a reality

 Press Release

San Jose, USA – March 30, 2009 - Monitis, a leading provider of affordable systems monitoring software as a service released a new version with major enhancements. Beside other improvements, it particularly allows remote monitoring of system events. The feature included at no extra cost for current Monitis subscribers.

Monitis launches a new release of its industry’s leading fault and performance monitoring software. New Monitis agent not only reports server resource utilization and configuration, but also security, application and other system events. The feature was among the most frequently requested by user community and now it is available at no extra cost to Monitis subscribers!

Other improvements included in the current release: Open API, drill-down in Top 10 views, open source Firefox plugin, better reporting, enhancements in asset management.

Some of the features were announced and demonstrated at CeBIT IT expo March 3-8 and now became publicly available.  “Our mission is to deliver one-stop, easy monitoring solutions for system, application and network administrators at an affordable price” said Hovhannes Avoyan, CEO of Monitis.  “These new announcements demonstrate our continued commitment to offer reliable, easy to use wide range of tools & services for IT engineers”. 

About Monitis Performance Monitor

Monitis Performance Monitor is an industry leading comprehensive, affordable, scalable, fault and performance management platform.  Monitis Performance Monitor monitors, collects and analyzes information from websites, servers, routers, switches, VoIP devices, DNS, databases, processes and any other IP devices providing users with a comprehensive view of their system health.  Open sourced Monitis plug-in with powerful API’s allow users to extend Monitis powerful monitoring and management capabilities.  Users can be assured of always on reliable service as Monitis Performance Monitor is deployed across the world providing resilient service.

About Monitis

Monitis is a leading provider of affordable performance monitoring and management solution. More than 50,000 customers spanning small businesses, Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and education institutions have chosen Monitis to reduce system downtime, improve IT administrator productivity, and reduce operational expenditure.  Monitis is radically changing system monitoring and management landscape by providing easy to use, affordable, flexible (deployment configurations include: shared, internal cloud and external cloud), and simple to manage SaaS performance monitoring and management solution. For more information, please visit http://www.monitis.com

Monitis versus Internetseer / @Watch

Posted by Hovhannes Avoyan | Posted in Monitis vs. Other services | Posted on 30-03-2009

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Site Monitoring Features

Internetseer/ @Watch

Monitis

Monitoring Frequency

5min

1 min

Monitored Protocols

HTTP, Ping, keyword check, DNS

HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, PING, POP3, IMAP, SMTP, SIP, DNS, TCP, UDP, MySQL. keyword check,

Alert Contact

SMS, Email

Email, SMS, instant messengers, RSS

Contacts

Unlimited

Unlimited

Multi-step applications (transaction) monitoring

Yes

Yes

User management (subaccounts)

Yes

Yes

Configuration management

-

Yes

Server CPU, memory, storage, process monitoring

-

Yes

Intranet application monitoring (agent based)

-

Yes

Web Visitor tracking

-

Yes

Customizable real-time dashboard

-

Yes

Embeddable widgets (iGoogle, Netvibes, Yahoo)

-

Yes

Web based

Yes

Yes

Dedicate instance in the cloud with permanent license (optional)

-

Yes

Price per extra SMS

N/A

0.25

Price per 1 URL including transactions, 5 min

$49.99

$20

 

For comparison with Internetseer free plan see Mon.itor.us vs Internetseer post

Monitis versus Pingdom

Posted by Hovhannes Avoyan | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on 28-03-2009

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Site Monitoring Features

Pingdom

Monitis

Monitoring Frequency

1min

1 min

Monitored Protocols

HTTP, TCP, Ping, UDP, DNS, POP3, SMTP, IMAP, keyword check

HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, PING, POP3, IMAP, SMTP, SIP, DNS, TCP, UDP, MySQL. keyword check

Alert Contact

SMS, Email

Email, SMS, instant
messengers,
RSS

Contacts

Unlimited

Unlimited

Multi-step applications (transaction) monitoring

-

Yes

User management (subaccounts)

-

Yes

Configuration management

-

Yes

Server CPU, memory, storage, process monitoring

-

Yes

Intranet application monitoring (agent based)

-

Yes

Web Visitor tracking

-

Yes, included

Customizable real-time dashboard

-

Yes

Completive benchmarking

-

Yes

Embeddable widgets (iGoogle, Netvibes, Yahoo)

-

Yes

Web based

Yes

Yes

Dedicate instance in the cloud with permanent license (optional)

-

Yes

Price per extra SMS

$ 0.45

$ 0.25

Price per 1 check (1 min resolution)

$ 0.50

$ 0.40

How Internal Monitoring Works

Posted by Hovhannes Avoyan | Posted in Help, News | Posted on 14-03-2009

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Provisioning both external availability and internal systems performance monitoring is one of key differentiators for Monitis. For internal monitoring Monitis provides downloadable agents which could be installed anywhere within client network. They will submit data to Monitis Central Server for storage, access and notification. When installed within corporate firewall, agents will communicate with the central server for user authentication and will check which tasks were assigned to them. Agents will use HTTPS so no need to change anything on firewall. Users (e.g. IT specialist like system or network administrators) can see a list of installed agents on Monitis web dashboards, and can remotely monitor server, network or intranet applications. Agent polls the server on regular intervals and when got a new monitoring task they start doing new probes. The Agent performance data transmitted over the internet to the Central Server can be watched in real time. The overall process of setting the agent and receiving performance metrics takes a few minutes. In contrast to software approach, with hosted service IT specialists don’t need to worry about having a dedicated server, database, notifications setup etc.

Agents are available for Windows, Linux and Sun Solaris platform. Agents can be installed on any user desktop and will not consume much CPU, memory and bandwidth and can co-exist with other applications. When installed, they can not only monitor the desktop or server they installed, but also any device in their neighborhood. Agents use ping, http, SNMP and WMI for monitoring intranets and they can also deliver CPU, memory, process and disk usage metrics.

Monitis at CeBIT 2009 Photo Collage

Posted by Hovhannes Avoyan | Posted in News | Posted on 11-03-2009

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Our team at CeBIT 2009 IT Expo in Hanover, demonstrating new products:

Monitis Announces Asset Management as a Service

Posted by Hovhannes Avoyan | Posted in News, Press Releases | Posted on 07-03-2009

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Monitor hardware and software assets anytime anyplace!

 

Press Release

Hannover, GermanyMarch 3-8, 2009 – Monitis, a leading provider of affordable, easy-to-use performance monitoring and management software is launching Asset Management as a service during CeBIT exhibition. Demonstrations will be available Hall 6, Stand B16.

Monitis launches Asset Manager – industry’s first Asset Management as a service at an affordable price.  It is estimated that 34% of software installed is never used!  Monitis Asset Manager automatically creates inventory, logs usage pattern and proactively suggest optimization to reduce cost.  Traditional asset management solutions are expensive and large companies use them for effective license management.  Now small/medium companies can take advantage of Monitis Asset Manager not only for license management but also cost optimization!

Current Monitis Performance Monitor platform users just need to click accept when the installed agents automatically upgrades to integrate new Asset Management as a Service.  New users just need to auto-deploy Monitis software agent on systems that need to be monitored.  Once installed, agents will update inventory at central server on what is installed on the particular hardware and/or software. Administrator can consolidate information across the organization.

The new product Asset Management as a Service will be demonstrated at CeBIT and will become publicly available right after the show.  “Our mission is to continually provide the best possible tools for system administrators at an affordable price” said Hovhannes Avoyan, CEO of Monitis.  “These new announcements demonstrate our continued commitment to offer reliable, timely and wide range of tools & services for system administrators”. Monitis products will be demonstrated by its technology partner Sourcio Hall 6, Stand B16. 

About Monitis Performance Monitor

Monitis Performance Monitor is an industry leading comprehensive, affordable, scalable, fault and performance management platform.  Monitis Performance Monitor monitors, collects and analyzes information from websites, servers, routers, switches, VoIP devices, DNS, databases, processes and any other IP devices providing users with a comprehensive view of their system health.  Open sourced Monitis plug-in with powerful API’s allow users to extend Monitis powerful monitoring and management capabilities.  Users can be assured of always on reliable service as Monitis Performance Monitor is deployed across the world providing resilient service.

About Monitis

Monitis is a leading provider of affordable performance monitoring and management solution. More than 40,000 customers spanning small businesses, Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and education institutions have chosen Monitis to reduce system downtime, improve IT administrator productivity, and reduce operational expenditure.  Monitis is radically changing system monitoring and management landscape by providing easy to use, affordable, flexible (deployment configurations include: shared, internal cloud and external cloud), and simple to manage SaaS performance monitoring and management solution. For more information, please visit http://www.monitis.com

Contacts:

Mikayel Vardanyan
(408) 512 3921
info@monitis.com

 

 

 

Monitis Announces Amazon EC2 Cloud Edition

Posted by Hovhannes Avoyan | Posted in News | Posted on 06-03-2009

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Industry leading Performance Monitor offers Amazon EC2 instance as its new deployment option
Press Release

Hannover, GermanyMarch 3-8, 2009 – Monitis, a leading provider of affordable, easy-to-use performance monitoring and management software is launching a new deployment option for its industry leading Performance Monitor service. Monitis Performance Monitor service can be hosted on Amazon EC2 or in an internal cloud. Demonstrations will be available during CeBIT exhibition, Hall 6, Stand B16.

IT administrators not only have to deal with the spiraling complexity of heterogeneous infrastructures such as SaaS, cloud computing, systems outside the firewall, etc., but also spiraling out of control cost especially in a challenging economic environment. Traditional existing systems are not adept to deal with last few years of rapid infrastructure changes but also require significant learning curve let alone continued maintenance. Monitis is radically changing the system monitoring and management landscape by providing easy to use, affordable, flexible (deployment configurations include: shared, internal cloud and external cloud), and simple to manage SaaS performance monitoring and management solution. Monitis external cloud deployment option leverages Amazon EC2 instance.

Monitis Enterprise Edition will be available as Amazon Machine Image (AMI), but also as VMWare image and Citrix XEN image. It will make deployment quick and seamless. The price per server will depend on maximum number of monitoring nodes requires and will start from $499. Unlimited version will cost $9,999. A significant discount will be provided for education, healthcare and government organizations.

The new deployment configuration of either Amazon EC2 cloud or internal cloud will be demonstrated at CeBIT and will become publicly available right after the show. “Our mission is to continually provide the best possible tools for system administrators at an affordable price” said Hovhannes Avoyan, CEO of Monitis.  “These new announcements demonstrate our continued commitment to offer reliable, timely and wide range of tools & services for system administrators”. Monitis products will be demonstrated by its technology partner Sourcio Hall 6, Stand B16.

About Monitis Performance Monitor

Monitis Performance Monitor is an industry leading comprehensive, affordable, scalable, fault and performance management platform.  Monitis Performance Monitor monitors, collects and analyzes information from websites, servers, routers, switches, VoIP devices, DNS, databases, processes and any other IP devices providing users with a comprehensive view of their system health.  Open sourced Monitis plug-in with powerful API’s allow users to extend Monitis powerful monitoring and management capabilities.  Users can be assured of always on reliable service as Monitis Performance Monitor is deployed across the world providing resilient service.

About Monitis

Monitis is a leading provider of affordable performance monitoring and management solution. More than 40,000 customers spanning small businesses, Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and education institutions have chosen Monitis to reduce system downtime, improve IT administrator productivity, and reduce operational expenditure.  Monitis is radically changing system monitoring and management landscape by providing easy to use, affordable, flexible (deployment configurations include: shared, internal cloud and external cloud), and simple to manage SaaS performance monitoring and management solution. For more information, please visit http://www.monitis.com

Contacts:

Mikayel Vardanyan
(408) 512 3921
info@monitis.com

Monitis launches new products as a service at CeBIT

Posted by Hovhannes Avoyan | Posted in News | Posted on 02-03-2009

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Application, desktop, network and server monitoring as a service

Press Release

Hannover, GermanyMarch 3-8, 2009 – Monitis, a leading provider of affordable, easy-to-use performance monitoring and management software is launching new products as a service during CeBIT exhibition. Demonstrations will be available Hall 6, Stand B16.

IT administrators not only have to deal with the spiraling complexity of heterogeneous infrastructures such as SaaS, cloud computing, systems outside the firewall, etc., but also spiraling out of control cost especially in a challenging economic environment. Traditional existing systems are not adept to deal with the last few years of rapid infrastructure changes but also require significant learning curve let alone continued maintenance. Monitis is radically changing the system monitoring and management landscape by providing easy to use, affordable, flexible (deployment configurations include: shared, internal cloud and external cloud), and simple to manage SaaS performance monitoring and management solution.

Monitis launches new products at CeBIT!

Monitis launches Asset Manager – industry’s first Asset Management as a service at an affordable price. It is estimated that 34% of software installed is never used! Monitis Asset Manager automatically creates an inventory, log usage pattern and proactively suggests optimization to reduce cost. Traditional asset management solutions are expensive and large companies use them for effective license management. Now small/medium companies can take advantage of Monitis Asset Manager not only for license management but also cost optimization!

Monitis has recently launched Web Load Testing service and is now enhancing deployment options to include Amazon EC2, internal cloud and enterprise edition.

In response to popular customer requests, Monitis is continually enhancing its core Performance Monitoring service to monitor security, failure, and fault systems events along with enhance policy management.

Finally Monitis API and new Firefox plug-in Monifox will provide an alternative and fast interface for IT administrators. The plug-in is open sourced and system administrators can customize it using Monitis API.

New products will be demonstrated at CeBIT and will become publicly available right after the show. “Our mission is to continually provide the best possible tools for system administrators at an affordable price” said Hovhannes Avoyan, CEO of Monitis.  “These new announcements demonstrate our continued commitment to offer reliable, timely and wide range of tools & services for system administrators”.

For demonstrations please visit Sourcio booth at CeBIT, Hall 6, Stand B16.

About Monitis Performance Monitor

Monitis Performance Monitor is an industry leading comprehensive, affordable, scalable, fault and performance management platform.  Monitis Performance Monitor monitors, collects and analyzes information from websites, servers, routers, switches, VoIP devices, DNS, databases, processes and any other IP devices providing users with a comprehensive view of their system health.  Open sourced Monitis plug-in with powerful API’s allow users to extend Monitis powerful monitoring and management capabilities.  Users can be assured of always on reliable service as Monitis Performance Monitor is deployed across the world providing resilient service.

About Monitis

Monitis is a leading provider of affordable performance monitoring and management solution. More than 40,000 customers spanning small businesses, Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and education institutions have chosen Monitis to reduce system downtime, improve IT administrator productivity, and reduce operational expenditure.  Monitis is radically changing system monitoring and management landscape by providing easy to use, affordable, flexible (deployment configurations include: shared, internal cloud and external cloud), and simple to manage SaaS performance monitoring and management solution. For more information, please visit http://www.monitis.com