We are planning to extend our platform with smart agents that can be installed on workstations or servers. We will provide for example CPU, memory, disk space monitoring, …, with possibility to extend agent with custom logic to monitor virtually anything. We plan to develop cross platform shared codebase with platform specific extensions. For example, here is example of simple implementation for Windows operating system, which uses Performance Counter to get CPU usage:

Yesterday was our first day of AppBeat 1.0 and we received quite positive feedback from people. Thank you all! Few users wanted quicker way to add website monitors and we listened to you. Today we published updated version which adds new “Quick website monitor” button on top of screen: Thanks to great development tools and frameworks from Microsoft, we can rapidly develop and publish new features in matter of hours!

We would like to officially announce that first final version of AppBeat is ready to use! We would like to thank to all participants of our BETA version. You helped us a lot with your valuable feedback! As we promised during BETA version, we will always try to offer one of our plans for free (forever, no credit cards required). Currently we are offering five free monitors with five minute check frequency.

With our latest deployment of our core AppBeat monitoring service on two geographically separate locations, and by removing our last single point of failure (central database, which is now locally mirrored), we have achieved very robust high availability monitoring system. With this setup we are hoping for at least 99.9999% availability of our core monitoring service (web management application is separate and less critical system, it is not part of core monitoring service).

We are currently in process of deploying second instance of our AppBeat core scheduler to server on different geographic location and network. Second instance of our scheduler will be automatically activated if primary server does not respond (due to network or hardware issues). This will allow us to provide very high availability of our monitoring service for our users and customers. AppBeat was architected from beginning with high availability in mind which is very suitable for enterprise usage.