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@vfuse owns NixStats, currently in beta and free. (Best one around imo)
You also have NodeQuery and InfinityStats. (Or you can get an observum plan at CloudCommando eg)
@NodePing
http://www.vpsadvice.com/index.php?page=nodeping
https://selectel.ru/services/monitoring/
https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/
https://www.pingdom.com/
cloudstats.me
https://bearmon.com/
What's the pricing on the Google monitoring? I'm assuming kind of expensive but I can't find the exact usage prices, also on my phone currently so that doesn't help.
Google Cloud Monitoring is currently offered to Beta users free-of-charge. Final pricing for the service has not been announced.
Hmmmm makes me kind of afraid to use it, use it end up liking it but it gets expensive as hell after the beta.
You're not tied into anything?
I haven't found something for monitoring that I love yet, most (if not all) of the servers I run are for hobby projects or personal use. And being a college student don't have a terrible amount of money to spend.
Statuscake is the best out there. I have tested many of them but all with fake alerts.
NixStats is pretty accurate?
Dident tried it. I have tested pingdom, uptime robot, cloudstats and 2-3 others and all was sending fake alerts.
Have you tried NodePing? Those guys rock IMHO. Yes, they don't have a shiny web 2.0 bling bling UI, but you get absolutely nowhere that much service & quality for such a low price.
Thanks for the mention! You can try us out at http://infinitystat.com/
Nodeping is pretty good and pretty cheap.
Can any monitoring services monitor servers and their processes? Like if a process goes down, I can be notified. Or a port no longer responds?
Feel free to give NixStats a try, free while in beta.
@camjac251 nixstats has process level monitoring (cpu/memory monitoring for each process up to 24 hours) and will have process level notifications soon as well.
Most of these services monitor entirely from the outside. So in the "port no longer responds" case, yes, and that's a large part of what they do - check if http or https is responding, or even if a certain string appears in the HTML, if your mail port is not responding, etc.
Monitoring a process would require a client to be installed and running on your system. Most of these services do not do that, though many self-hosted products (zabbix, nagios, etc.) certainly can. There probably are monitoring products that work off a client, but I think they're less common because it's more difficult for the provider (versus just opening your port 80 and see what comes back).
There we go, I was looking for NodeQuery. Thanks @TheLonely
NodeQuery is old. Better switch to CloudStats.
NixStats is wonderful I highly recommend it over Nodequery and most others. Other than that I love statuscake, but I don't think they are active.