Network Monitoring Services
Network Monitoring as a Service
We already pointed out that network monitoring is essential for companies of any size and branch, to ensure that their computer systems are performing properly and no outages occur. But you do not necessarily need to purchase, setup and run a monitoring software on your own. You can also chose out of several network monitoring services - many of them are free!
Advantages of Network Monitoring Services
For some companies it is too much work to administrate and maintain a network monitoring environment consisting of software and hardware. For these customers a hosted service for network monitoring is the ideal solution to combine the majority of the benefits of an inhouse monitoring solution with the convenience of a provided network monitoring service.
But there are more advantages than convenience: you can react quickly on changes in demand by adding or dropping sensors within minutes as you need them without straining your budget in advance. Monitoring sensors are usually charged on a daily basis, so that you only pay for what you actually use.
Furthermore, the service provider takes care of maintaining the software as well as the hardware infrastructure. This saves time and money and frees ressources for your key business.
But even if you already have a monitoring solution in place, a network monitoring service might be a good completion to monitor your servers from outside your own network.
Disadvantages of Network Monitoring Services
Due to the fact that network monitoring services are accessed via the web, a smaller range of sensor types is available. And if you need a large number of sensor over a long period of time, the network monitoring services can become more expensive than the purchase of downloadable software.
How Do Network Monitoring Services Work?
Our on-demand network monitoring service "bello" periodically checks your website as well as your other servers (e.g. mail servers, FTP servers, etc.). As soon as outages are discovered you will be notified via email, SMS/pager or ICQ message. A free starter account of this network monitoring service with 2 sensors and a monitoring interval of 60 minutes is available.
Features of "bello" - Network Monitoring Service
Our network monitoring service offers:
- Easy to use and intuitive interface using any web browser
- Various protocols:
- HTTP and HTTPS
- PING, PORT, DNS, SMTP, POP3, FTP
- Advanced HTTP sensors (e.g. for content checks)
- HTTP transaction sensors
- Notifications can be triggered by uptimes, downtimes or slow responses
- Notifications can be sent to you by email, ICQ, SMS or pager messages
- Using the optional Windows GUI adds popup windows and alarm sound as notifications
- Monitoring reports sent to your mailbox daily, weekly or monthly
- Detailed reports and graphs can be viewed online
- Free Starter Accounts available to see how it works
Network Monitoring Services for ISPs
As an ISP you can also set up a monitoring environment to offer network monitoring services to your customers. You can configure PRTG Network Monitor in your datacenter to monitor your customers's devices, applications and websites, so that they are always up to date concerning the status of their network. Of course you can notify or send reports to your customers as well. Read about how to become an ISP partner of Paessler or how to use PRTG Network Monitor.
