Episode 124: Website Issue Monitoring
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Don’t let issues and problems go unnoticed.
News and Follow-Ups – 00:38
- Apple taking the cloud seriously, doing OS upgrades in the cloud
- Ninjabutton goes down, how much can you depend on web services?
- Ebay aquires Magento
- Jade’s iTunes account compromised
- Skype protocol reverse engineered
Geek Tools – 14:45
Webapps – 17:33
- TravelPod Traveler IQ Game – How well do you know your geography?
- Explorra Visual DNA – Visually select good vacations
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
- Browsermob – Multiple locations and adjust time
- Pingdom – Response times, error analysis
- Google Webmaster Tools
- 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
- App Emails You
- Exception Hub
- Hoptoad
- Traffic Jams
- Google analytics traffic spike alerts via email/sms
- Set for no traffic
- Set for high traffic
- Google analytics traffic spike alerts via email/sms
- Uptime