Performance testing made easy, affordable for QA, Developers and Webmasters!
Press Release

San Jose, – April 28, 2009 – Monitis Inc., a leading provider of affordable, easy-to-use performance monitoring and management software announces website performance testing service. With new Monitis Web Load Tester companies can not only instantly run their site performance tests, but keep historical records and manage performance scripts.

Website availability can significantly affect companies revenue and its online reputation. An article in Digg or another social media has potential to boost significant traffic but can kill the site if not performance tested. Companies may lose their page ranking and sales instead of benefiting from the increased traffic. Load tests on every release of new features and running the tests on pre-production environment is needed to understand website’s resilience. Having said, it is unwarranted for most companies to keep redundant servers just for load testing.

Monitis Web Load Tester (www.webloadtester.com) is the solution to prior mentioned challenges. QA, web developers, webmasters and even advanced business users can create load tests and run them within minutes leveraging a scalable testing platform. Besides affordable pricing, the easy to use interface does not require any learning. Users can leverage Web Load Tester’s analytics interface to continue to benchmark modifications with historical results. Beta version of Web Load Tester is well received by 100+ customers. Prior version of Web Load Tester required users pay per each new test and sends test results via email. Current enhanced version offers users the ability to login to their account, prepay for multiple tests via paypal or credit card, manage reports and provide access to multiple users.

“Our mission is to continually provide affordable enterprise-class tools to IT specialists for systems performance management” said Hovhannes Avoyan, CEO of Monitis.  “Monitis now provides not only performance monitoring solutions, but also proactive performance testing”. Monitis planned series of new product announcements in the near future.

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

Contacts:

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

Monitis Team announced another addition to External Monitors, that is the possibility of specifying timeout for external monitors. Up to now timeout was fixed to 10s for all the monitors. Now you can manually specify the timeout after which your website should be considered unresponsive and consequently its status will be NOK in the corresponding chart.

External Monitoring

• Adjustable response timeout option provided in “Add Monitor” pop up(new feature)
• Response timeout edit possibility in edit mode of monitor(new feature)
• Date/time in alert e-mails can be set to timezones other than GMT(new feature)

Internal Monitoring

• Issues with Windows agent related to Ping test resolved(fix)

General

• Timezone to contacts mapping is added in Add  Contact popup(new feature)
• Timezone edit for corresponding contact is possible in edit mode of corresponding contact(new feature)
• Live chat support is changed from Skype to Live2Support
• Monitis forum is launched
• Change Log blog category is created

A fraction of Yahoo Mail users couldn’t get to their e-mail last Thursday, the company said. This is a good business case for applying Monitis transaction monitoring service. Plain website home page monitoring will not provide such kind of checks, while workflow based monitors can check the whole flow of the application – e.g. login, click on inbox, checking certain content, logout. The service is available to Monitis Plus subscribers and can also be purchased separately using custom plan builder.

Monitis Team is introducing another nice to have feature, the possibility of selection timezone for notification alerts. Timezone selection is done per notification contact, which means in case your have contacts located in different locations, they will be able to get notifications in their local timezones. By default timezone of your browser is taken during the sign up, which is possible to alter within the account.

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External Monitoring

• Help icons in the “Add Monitor” pop up with clarifications of each field(new feature)
• Tag as combo box in the “Add Monitor” pop up in order to show all previously added tags(improvement)
• Possibility of maintenance date/time specification from the “Add Monitor” pop up in order to prevent checks during that interval(new feature)
• Possibility to add/change/remove maintenance date/time periods in edit mode of each monitor(new feature)
• Downtime duration above the chart of each monitor(new feature)
• New option for weekly reports to include also charts(new feature)

Internal Monitoring

• New plug in-based Windows agent(improvement)
• Possibility to monitor Windows system events
• Possibility to monitor Installed Software on Windows machines
• Some descriptions in Add Agent popup related to thresholds
• Reports for internal monitors(new feature)

General

• No reload of table in My Monitor after every selection(improvement)
• Alerts History which shows the last alerts sent to your contact(s) (new feature)
• Invoice generation possibility for the payment made
• Firefox plugin for Monitis(Monifox)
• Top 10 views devices by CPU, Load, Memory, Drive(new feature)
• Top 10 views websites by Response time(new feature)

Many systems management software vendors provide agents for distributed monitoring. These are vendors which provide traditional installable software and some later provide software for software as a service (SaaS) option. We at Monitis made our agent with SaaS model by design. Particularly we understand that there is always a natural resistance to download and install an additional software, so we make the agent deployment process as easy as possible. What makes our agent truly unique? First of all, it is using client initiated HTTPs protocol to communicate with the Monitis Central Server. Benefits: you can install agents on every device which is connected to the Internet, even if it is behind firewall. Nothing should be changed in your firewall settings. Agents can be up and running within minutes (see How Internal Monitoring Works post). Second, Monitis agents are fully controllable from the Web, so once you installed agents, you can manage them centrally and without accessing the devices. You can automatically deploy multiple agents and then configure them all from the Web interface. With policy tools you can also change parameters for multiple agents promptly. It makes agent maintenance easy especially in really large and distributed IT infrastructures.Third, Monitis agent is self-updating allowing quickly deployment of agent new version without any overhead and benefiting from newly introduced features. Finally, Monitis provides single agent for all supported functions – performance, configuration management and automatic recover. No need to install additional agents or plugins. Monitis provides agents for Windows, Linux, and Solaris. FreeBSD and Apple versions will also be available soon.