Website Monitoring
→ What is a Website?
A Website is a collection of resources (e.g. HTML files, images, js/css files, dynamic content), hosted in the 'cloud' and served by a web server. Visitors of your website use a web browser to view all of these resources, as you do now, viewing this page. Each website has a unique HTTP address like 'https://www.google.com' or 'https://www.my-company.com'. Sometimes, websites are unreachable (or 'down', as we say). There are many reasons for a website being down:
- Network errors
- Wrong server setup
- Software failures
- Hacking attacks
- Denial-of-Service attacks
- and many more
→ What happens if my website is down?
That depends on your website. You may lose customers, miss business opportunities, or just dissapoint potential visitors of your website. If you are a developer and are in charge of keeping the website up and running, you might get unpleasant phone calls from your boss or client.
→ How can I know if my website is up or down?
You can launch your web browser, enter the URL of your website, and see if it's up. It's a very manual task. And you have to do it every 5 minutes (or so), 24x7, day and night.
→ How does Monibot keep my website up and running?
It doesn't. If your website goes down, Monibot can do nothing against it.
→ What does Monibot do, then?
Monibot tries to reach your website in short intervals (e.g. every 5 minutes),
24x7, day and night.
If the website is down, Monibot will notify you instantly, for example via email, so that
you can fix things before your customers/boss/client knows something is broken.
Moreover, Monibot records the response latency (the time it takes for your website
to produce a response) for each trial, stores it in its database, and presents
a nice chart. So you can check if your website becomes slower over time.
→ How do I monitor a website with Monibot?
Here are the steps required:
- Login to Monibot, and enter the 'Websites' section
- Click the 'New Website' Button
- Enter a human-friendly name of your website, and the HTTP(S) URL.