When users search for a good website monitoring solution, one of the points in their checklist is whether the solution can monitor websites from multiple locations. This not only allows them to understand the availability and performance of their website, but also look at the end-user experience of their website from around the world. They enables them to fine tune the performance of their website based on availability and response time reports.
In this blog post, I will quickly run through the steps how to monitor a website and enable monitoring from multiple locations.
Adding multi-location monitoring for new websites :
Log into Site24x7 or if you do not have access,
create an account now.
Click on '
New Monitor' pull-down menu, and select '
Website'.
Enter the label of the website, its address, whether you would like to associate this website with a monitor group. Select the frequency of the website you wish to monitor, the timeout, the default primary location. You can set the polling interval as low as 1 minute to as high as 60 minutes or more.
Now select the secondary location. These secondary locations will allow you to monitor the website from multiple locations. For this example, I have chosen Sao Paulo, Sweden and Japan. Site24x7 allows you to easily alert you when your website goes down from one of the locations, configured.
Site24x7 also allows you to alert you in case there is a change in content or when the response time of the website increases. In addition, you can also add a host of alerting options such as keyword monitoring, regular expression match, website content modification and response time.
Once every thing is configured, simply click '
Add' and Site24x7 starts monitoring them.
As you can see, Site24x7 starts monitoring not only from its default primary location, but also starts monitoring the website from the multiple locations I have chosen from. So interested in trying out our multi-location feature for monitoring your website? Go ahead and give
Site24x7 a try.
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