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In an accident in June this year, Taobao server lost one hours, loss of about 10 million online transaction amount.

In the era of increasingly intense competition in this website, how to provide sustainable and efficient service becomes another battlefield after everyone has been fighting ideas and creating ideas.

The website performance is very important, everybody knows, precisely because everybody is very clear, from the very beginning is very clear. But because the energy gradually dispersed in the creative design, function development, network promotion and so on, make later instead become part of the webmaster's short board.

But at the same time, as a station webmaster, I do not want to sit in front of the computer to monitor my Web services. Of course, I am more reluctant to pay two network administrator 24x7 to monitor my site, the cost is too high. Therefore, how fast and efficient, Low-cost Web site monitoring has become a problem to be solved.

After a period of research, basically some results, to share with you

The so-called monitoring, but also divided into internal monitoring and external monitoring points.

I. Internal monitoring

Internal monitoring, that is, by writing programs and scripts, deployed on the server, monitoring the server memory, CPU, disk read and write, and so on.
Now the way I can implement this is by analyzing the monitoring values captured by each monitoring command (top, vmstat, free).
For example, we all know that free can see the memory utilization, the general free+buffers+ cached value can be considered as a synthesis of the remaining available memory, by periodically reading this value compared with the custom threshold, once the threshold value, Email us via sendmail.
Similar to other CPUs, disks, processes, and so on.
Some of these monitoring scripts can basically meet our low-level monitoring requirements. If there is a need for the source code, welcome to the mail request (meigenzh@gmail.com).

Ii. External Monitoring

On the basis of internal monitoring, can not be in the other people do not log on the basis of our server, let it monitor our services.
In particular, if there is a way, by simulating the behavior of the end users of our web site business from the outside to monitor, once the "analog user" has not satisfied with the experience, that is, the site service anomalies, you can promptly notify us, mail or phone, cell phone messages are possible, will greatly reduce my workload.
Requirements are relatively high, you can not do it, OK, online search, Google helps me, the network, is really you can think of everything there. I really found a few similar services.

1, Internetsupervision
URL: http://internetsupervision.com

Free monitoring of your site's health, the first 90 days every 15 minutes to detect once, 24 hours after the test. Request to place its advertising code.
According to the introduction on its website, the monitoring focuses on the accessibility, performance and content of the website. They provide five artificial surveillance sites, located in Washington DC, Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles and Santiago respectively. There are two other remote checkpoints in Gloucester, UK and Sydney.
Service, for free users, the first 90 days every 15 minutes to detect once, 24 hours after the test. But the requirement is to place its advertising code on our website and to receive a yearly web-related survey.

2, Monitwitter
URL: http://twitter.com

The famous Twitter-provided Third-party application service. Monitwitter, named after monitor + Twitter, feeds real-time feedback on the operation of the user's website via Twitter. The main site errors and load times to monitor. After registering your account you can add your site, and each user can add multiple sites. Add your Twitter account at the same time you need to add the site, errors information is when a series of unusual situation in your site only through Twitter to remind you, while the load times on the site load time monitoring every ping to remind you once, So if you don't want to update too often, it's recommended to open a Twitter account to receive information about the load times.


3, Youmonitorus free monitoring Service (emphasis recommended)
URL: http://youmonitor.us

The services provided by the website basically meet my personalized requirements.
Open the home page, do not register to experience her external services, a single site for real-time monitoring:
Here are five cities of real-time access rate statistics, and there are three from China's Hangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing's monitoring points, which I am more satisfied with the place.
In addition to the average speed of access, it also provides a Google, Yahoo and other famous web site speed comparison table, from which you can intuitively see the speed of your Web site and this site exactly how much gap.
Test more than two times, found: the same site monitoring every time out of the monitoring site display will not be the same, indicating that her monitoring site is more. According to its ymu, surveillance spots are spread all over the world.
After registering for landing, I found that the other side is the monitoring site configured me, for example, my site is facing mainland Chinese users, I configure my monitoring site in mainland China. Her monitoring time interval is configured to be minimal for up to 1 minutes.

Free users to enjoy a 30-day trial, if the monitoring network for her to provide a monitoring node, will become a lifelong free users, this is not bad.
By registering the service on the YMU and providing a monitoring point to the monitoring network, the service I now enjoy is this:
(1) Analog client monitoring from 10 different locations in China
(2) Every source 5 minutes of monitoring time interval
(3) Mail notification Service
(4) 10-month mobile phone SMS notification
Here, the only thing that is missing is a little SMS, but it is free service, content.
Now my personal website monitoring is basically handed over to Ymu. If it's not a business analysis, I don't always have to visit my website when I'm online.