Website Performance Monitoring Tools

Question

I have websites that we tune for performance and would like to know if anyone has a good tool for monitoring secure websites? I am looking for a tool that can enter a website and check out a few links and performance. At least one of the links will have access to another web product using single sign-on. I would set it to check the site every 5-15 minutes, record how long each page takes to render in the browser, and send a warning if something goes wrong. Did you use something like this that worked well (or very badly)?

Answer 1

I used a great tool for monitoring websites, databases, Windows services, smtp, ftp (etc.) called ipmonitor from SolarWinds http://www.solarwinds.com/products/ipmonitor/

Watch the online demo quite impressively at http://ipmonitordemo.solarwinds.com/ their HTTP monitors should suit your requirements.

HTTP Monitor

See http://support.ipmonitor.com/helps/7339c16dba734b209dbfe429048d72b0.aspx

Answer 2

I like Alertfox.com

He has The best web transaction performance monitoring for all 15+ services that I tested. They also have decent free plans if money is a problem.

Answer 3

IBM has created a product called IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Response Time that does exactly what you want.

This is pretty good, but not cheap.

Disclosure: I work for Orb Data , an IBM business partner that sells and provides advice for this and other IBM Tivoli products.

Edit: I think another publication was devoted to a development tool - this is more for monitoring production systems, which I think want what the poster wants.

Answer 4

A new free cloud service has appeared that allows you to track application response time in several places around the world. You can use HTTPS and create an action flow as needed: Beatsoo.org