So you are monitoring your web application, but are you really covering the 3 basic levels that will fully ensure it is available and responsive?  Monitoring of a web application can be as simple as testing a single web page; however, going deeper and covering your bases is better.
 
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A good resource for finding network / website / server monitoring software is the one located at the Stanford University SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) website.  Since 1996, Les Cottrell has been cataloging an ever increasing and enormous list of tools for the network and systems admin.  As the list has grown, the design of the […]

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Monitoring Software is prolific in the IT world; however, to the newly initiated sys admin, figuring out what you need for your servers is not nearly as hard as finding out what all of the terminology means.  The problem is that there is no standard terminology that we (the IT world) can use to effectively […]

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