External Monitoring

• New Monitoring location from China
• Possibility of excluding US location

Internal Monitoring

• FreeBSD agent

Transaction Monitoring

• Reliability and false positives improvements

EC2 Monitoring

• EC2 advanced policy

Widgets

• Sign up and add monitor feature in iGoogle Perfometer widget
• Sign up and add monitor feature in iGoogle Snapshot widget
• Sign up and add monitor feature in iGoogle Test widget

General

• Easy Start Wizard introduction
• Continuous alerting possibility
• Monifox version 1.2(Firefox add-on)
• Sending notification alerts to Twitter
• Coupons introduction during signup

We recently offered our Monitis users a 10-question survey to prioritize features for our roadmap. Our first question was about the dashboard user interface. We listed several planned enhancements and asked the users to point out which are the most critical for them. Users identified several performance chart views as the most critical needs like a 24-hours view, 7-days view widgets, and views with flexible custom dates. We instantly put these requests in our next week plan and hope to deliver them to our users within the next 2 weeks. We also included other requests in our roadmap.

The next question was related to external monitoring. One of the highest requests was to add checks for broken website links. We are actually set to launch this service by the end of the next week. The early release will be a free service, and later it will be integrated with Monitis. It will daily crawl the complete user website and will find dead-end links. Also, people asked for more monitoring locations. We are going to add at least one more location in a week.

The next block was related to internal, agent-based server and network monitoring. The highest request was for advanced MySQL database monitoring. We already have it developed and will integrate it in the nearest future. It will definitely be live by the end of June. The next priority was identified as adding customized scripts for probes. Technically it is also ready, so we will try to move the launch earlier in our schedule. The automatic recovery scripts feature was a winner in the nice-to-have category. Next, was the users request to integrate SNMP monitoring with Monitis (which is currently a separate service at www.monitorsnmp.com). Again, we will have them live by the end of June.

More about the survey results in our next blog post.

External Monitoring

• “User Agent” of external checks can be defined from Options, which will help to identify and filter requests from external monitoring probes in the logs. In some cases it will help to set up the User Agent the way which results in the correct response of the particular website.
• Calendar is added to the external monitors so it is more convenient to browser older data
• Embeddable public widget is added which allows to put it on your website
• Public report option is added, which provides a link to show your report to your visitors
• Improvements related to Maintenance Scheduling
• Possibility of selecting Australian location from the notification rules
• Possibility to deselect US location when adding new monitor and in the notification rules

Internal Monitoring

• Weekly reports will be sent every week showing statistics related to internal monitors
• “Agent is not running” alert can be set up from the Options in order to receive warning notifications in case something is wrong with connection between the monitored server and Monitis Central Server.

General

• Launch of new portal
• New type of monitoring is introduced namely – Amazon EC2 instance monitoring

Monitis has reached 500 Twitter followers at http://twitter.com/monitis . We use Twitter to inform our community about upcoming events and releases. Our users may also submit feedbacks and messages via Twitter.

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 supports IM(instant messengers), e-mail and SMS

We accept PayPal as well as any credit cards(MasterCard, VISA, American Express). In case you have some specific needs we can also accept wire transfers and checks.