The Cloud Service & Website Monitor allow you monitor the availability and response of a website without having to install an agent on the web server. This is particularly useful for sites hosted externally by web hosting providers, who may not allow access to the underlying servers.
The website URL is monitored from one or more devices that have an Naverisk agent installed. This can be either a standard or advanced agent. The monitor measures the site response time, and is also able to test for specific text being returned from the server. By monitoring remotely, you can measure the real-world response time, including the effect of network and internet speed between the web server and monitoring device. By monitoring a URL from multiple devices, you add redundancy to the monitor, and measure performance from different locations.
To monitor a website, a Passive Device must be added to the appropriate client. From the Devices tab, select New Device then click Create New Passive Device. Enter the device information as required then save.
The monitor then needs to be configured on a suitable device. This device can be on the same client as the passive device created above, or under a different client if required.
1. From the Monitoring tab, under Monitored URIs: select Add.
2. Enter the website URI, making sure the correct protocol is selected. The URI can be set to any available page on the site.
3. Under Device, choose the Passive Device created above
4. Set the other fields as required.
Searched Text: This is used to test for text returned within the tested web page. Setting this to text that you would see if the page is working correctly will allow the monitor to tell if the page is returning valid content or an error message. You can either test for content that should be present, or test if an error message is not present.
Threshold: An alert will be generated if the website does not respond within the configured time, allowing you to check for degraded performance.
Interval: The frequency that the monitor will poll the website
Failure threshold: The number of consecutive failed polls before an alert is raised. This can be set to a higher number to prevent occasional slow responses etc from creating alerts unnecessarily.
SLA Class: The desired classification. This would typically be set to Performance or Availability
SLA Status: The required SLA status severity used when an alert is created
SLA Trigger Text: Optional text added to the ticket trigger field when an alert is created. This can provide additional information or details about the alert.
Once the required fields have been completed, click save. Note that multiple URI monitors can be added to a device.
You will also need to save the OS template on the device so that the monitor is added.
In addition to manually adding a Monitored URI to an individual device, you can also add one or more monitors to any OS Template.
Under Settings, go to OS templates and edit the required template. You can also copy an existing template or create a new one.
You can add a URI monitor under the Availability section. The monitor is configured in the same way as above. Once the template is saved, the URI monitor will be added to all devices currently using the template. when adding a URI monitor to an OS template, consideration should be given to the number of devices using that template, to prevent a large number of devices all monitoring the website and creating excessive load.
Further details on using OS templates can be found in the Knowledge Base.
By opening the Passive Device created for the monitor, you can view tickets created by the monitor, and see the devices that the monitor is run from.
Many websites use dynamic pages driven by a back-end database. These can include catalogs, shopping cart sites, searches, blogs and forums. By referencing a dynamic page in the monitor, you can verify that the database and back-end code are performing correctly, however as the page is dynamic it can be difficult to search for specific text as it may not appear over time. For example, on a blog, if you are searching for text in a specific post, as new posts are added, the one with the text may eventually not be shown on the main page.
In many cases, we can request the specific article, post or other data within the URL. A typical example would look like:
www.website.com/search.php?article=text
Other sites may use what looks like a static URL (e.g. blogs) however the content is still fetched dynamically. Regardless of the method, by copying the specific dynamic page URL into the monitor will always return the expected page.
By configuring multiple monitors for one website, you can create more granular monitoring. Some examples include:
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