If you have less frequent monitoring and you want to check if your website or service still has errors (and you can’t wait until next scheduled run), you can click on “schedule new probe” link as shown below: This will add your monitoring request to scheduler que, and it will be automatically retested as soon as possible (usually this is in less than 10 seconds, but please note that page auto refreshes every 60 seconds - you may also manually refresh page for quicker result).

In this version of AppBeat we primarily focused on some optimizations of our core monitor service. For example, our core now sends database updates much much efficiently. In each monitoring batch that we dispatch we have several checks. When those checks return result, our dispatcher manager packs all the results into single DataTable and sends it to database as Table-Valued Parameter. This means single roundtrip to database, instead of previously tens of single database updates.

We have added three new monitoring agents to our AppBeat collection: HTTP header agent: if you want to monitor just HTTP header values from web server, without downloading content, then you should use this agent. This is fastest and most optimal way, to check if your web server is alive. Note: your web server must support HTTP HEAD request as described in RFC 2616 protocol, section 9.4. TCP connectivity agent: this is simple agent which checks if TCP port is open or not.

It is common for web developers to have local “debug” version of website and production version. For example, in debug version you may have uncompressed, full version of JavaScript files for easier debugging and diagnostics, while in production environment you often deploy smaller and thus faster versions of same files. To automatically detect situation where you mistakenly published debug version into production environment, you can use free AppBeat account to monitor your web page and alert you of such mistakes.

In latest beta version of AppBeat web app we introduced improved wizard for adding new checks (monitors). If you keep default names, you can add new website monitor with just three quick actions: click “Next” button on first step enter website URL on second step confirm by clicking “Finish” button Monitoring your website has never been so easy :) Try it out by signing up for free.