External sanity checks

Fri Feb 4 02:37:47 UTC 2011

On Thursday, February 3, 2011 8:31pm, "Jeffrey Lyon" <jeffrey.lyon at blacklotus.net> said:

> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Justin Horstman
> <justin.horstman at gorillanation.com> wrote:
>> +1 vote for Gomez, they are the most advanced and most capable in this space.
>> They are also not very cheap...
>>
>>
>> ~J
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Greg Dendy [mailto:gdendy at equinix.com]
>>> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 10:35 AM
>>> To: Brandon Galbraith
>>> Cc: nanog
>>> Subject: Re: External sanity checks
>>>
>>> Gomez isn't too bad either for the http side.
>>>
>>> http://www.gomez.com/
>>>
>>>
>>> Greg
>>>
>>> On Feb 3, 2011, at 10:29 AM, "Brandon Galbraith"
>>> <brandon.galbraith at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Pingdom will do most of what you're looking for (www.pingdom.com).
>>> We're
>>> > quite fond of them after a bad Keynote experience.
>>> >
>>> > -brandon
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Philip Lavine
>>> <source_route at yahoo.com>wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> To all,
>>> >>
>>> >> Does any one know a Vendor (NOT Keynote) that can do sanity checks
>>> against
>>> >> your web/smtp/ftp farms with pings, traceroutes, latency checks as
>>> well as
>>> >> application checks (GET, POST, ESMTP, etc)
>>> >>
>>> >> Thank you,
>>> >>
>>> >> Philip
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Brandon Galbraith
>>> > US Voice: 630.492.0464
>>>
>>
>>
>>
> 
> Pingdom has been pretty solid, only criticism is that all of their
> nodes are North America and Europe.
> 
> --
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http://www.websitepulse.com/ been around and solid for years, much more advanced than pingdom.com but pingdom.com is great for certain levels of testing.

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