Monday, February 06, 2012

Screenshots / Basic Instructions

Setup

  • After you register, you use the Set Sites page to key a list of sites you wish to monitor. You need to key the full URL as it would appear in your browser's address bar, complete with http:// or https://. Once the site is added to this list the pinger will start to monitor its uptime.

  • After that you can use the Check Sites page to monitor and administer your sites. It will take a few minutes before your sites start to get accessed by PingAlive and you get your first readings.

 

   

Check Sites

  • This page is used to monitor all your sites in one simple list. The comment or URL is shown and you can click to go to the site.

  • Each site's short term health is indicated by a green / amber / red symbol and its long term health by a coloured bar.

  • A magnifying glass on the left can be clicked to see the detailed response times for a site...
     
   

Detailed Response Times

  • This page allows you to set the target response time and sensitivity. It also allows you to turn on Email alerts and to specify the address they are sent to.

  • A pie chart illustrates the percentage up time and downtime as well as timeouts. You can set a start date for these calculations here also.

  • The middle area shows individual response times as well as each error and timeout. You can see up to 24 hours ago in blocks of 6 hours.

  • At the very bottom, the last 20 error descriptions are shown to give you an idea of why any downtime occurred.
     
 

Long Term Analysis

  • This page shows 3 weeks up until now. It allows you to compare response times from a day this week to the same day last week or 2 weeks ago. This can be useful to indicate that poor performance occurs at certain points in the week.

  • Each of the 3 graph areas show min, max and average response times. The area below each graph shows the % of responses that were errors, timeouts, between 5 and 30 seconds and between 1 and 5 seconds.

  • From this page you can get a good overall perspective of your sites performance and check if any ongoing problems have been rectified.

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