subject: Online Businesses And Their Web Monitoring Strategies. [print this page] A clear understanding of website monitoring is like a complete understanding of an end to end test for application soft wares for the web. It is a holistic approach and and the monitoring strategy is truly dependent on your business requirements and budget.
The more number of dash boards we have the better. There are some basic rules for businesses. First being availability. Your business should be accessible every second to online users and there should strictly be no downtime. Downtime is unacceptable. Well, this can be dealt with the help of website monitoring services.
Some of the good website monitoring services generate real time reports and these reports are generated then and there when the error occurs and if these is something amiss. The services has agents and these agents monitor inside out. These monitoring agents check your web-servers your HTTP/HTTPS servers, FTP servers, POP3/SMTP, IMAP and DNS, video streaming servers and much more.
An alert message or notification is immediately sent to the webmaster when ever there is a downtime. A commercial website monitoring service offers many features and has many capabilities that a user might find it complicated and in between the realm of a million buttons and terms. This might turn into a nightmare for inexperienced webmasters.
It is always advisable to have a short guide to make use of the service and get optimum usage out of it. All though a web site monitoring software comes with documentation and a help - yourself manual, its always good to have a short and simple version as to show the working of the software and the its usage. This would help the webmasters a great deal and get to work with it without further adieu.
