Simple self-hosted website monitoring

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I'm looking for a simple self hosted website monitoring tool. It should be somthing similar to watchmouse.com or pimgdom.com, with a nice UI, colorful charts and so on (Customers like that :)). At the moment we use Zabbix also for HTTP monitoring, but since now our hoster care about the hardware and software monitoring on the machine directly, we don't need Zabbix anymore. For pure http-monitoring zabbix or an other monitoring suite is really an overkill.

So what I'm not looking for is:

Zabbix
Nagios
Hyperic
….
Sadly but the truth, after some hours of researching I wasn't able to find a fitting application. My hope is now on you.

Thanks in advance.

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Forget self hosting monitoring and use something like monitis - the big advantage is that it checks from multipel external (!) locations and is free / cheap, depending how you check. This way you not only know that your HTTP server works well (it can cehck outout of specific URL's) but also that you are reachable from various international locations.

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Try leaving put the -u. -u gives the path (page) to retrieve, default is "/", it doesn't take the entire URL. Here is my output when I leave it out.

$ ./check_http -H www.google.com -s "Privacy"
HTTP OK HTTP/1.0 200 OK - 0.041 second response time |time=0.040579s;;;0.000000 size=5257B;;;0
$ ./check_http -H www.google.com -s "Privacyblahdibla"
HTTP CRITICAL - string not found|time=0.048169s;;;0.000000 size=5257B;;;0

If you want to get a specific page, use the -u like this

$ ./check_http -H www.google.com -u "/ig" -s "Privacy"
HTTP OK HTTP/1.0 200 OK - 0.166 second response time |time=0.165896s;;;0.000000 size=87843B;;;0

Can’t see hosted website

The IP address 83.12.12.123 will be for your PC as seen from outside the firewall created by your Edimax ASDL router. Inside the firewall your PCs address will be different.

As you're on Windows, try systeminfo (reference: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb491007.aspx) at a command prompt to find your current IP address.

Also, see here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/621728/cant-browse-a-website-hosted-at-home-on-local-machine for related issues and fixes that may permit you to use the outside IP address.

(Note, this isn't really a StackOverflow question as this site is mostly for specific programming issues.)

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Can’t see hosted website

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