Jun 7 2011

Episode 124: Website Issue Monitoring

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Don’t let issues and problems go unnoticed.

News and Follow-Ups – 00:38

Geek Tools – 14:45

Webapps – 17:33

Website Issue Monitoring – 22:01

  • Website Issue Monitoring
    • Uptime
      • Browsermob – Multiple locations and adjust time
      • Uptimerobot – Totally free, includes SMS support
      • Pingdom – Response times, error analysis
        • Free account 1 website with 20 free SMS messages
    • Load Time
    • Error Tracking
      • Google webmaster tools, 404s unreachable to spider
      • You need to track when people hit errors, so you can fix them
      • Think about your error messages, ala Rails “Someone has been notified”
      • Methods
    • Traffic Jams
      • Google analytics traffic spike alerts via email/sms
        • Set for no traffic
        • Set for high traffic