February 12, 2017

Price comparison of website monitoring services (2017)

We have compiled pricing list of popular website monitoring services for their entry level monthly plans. For easier comparison, all prices were converted to EUR (we used latest exchange rate which was available on February 12th, 2017). Monitoring prices as of February 12th, 2017: ServiceEntryprice Discountedprice MonitorsNotificationtypes Pingdom 12.95 EUR / monthnot available10Email, SMS, webhook, TwitterUptimeRobot ~6.5 EUR / month~5.17 EUR / month50Email, SMS, webhook, Twitter, Boxcar2, Pushbullet, Pushover, HipChat, Slackpingometer

February 10, 2017

Website monitor automation with REST API

Dear developers, Today we published REST API documentation which allows you to write your own clients to access most frequently used AppBeat functionality. If you have any questions, please let us know, we’re always here to help! And as always - happy monitoring!

January 23, 2017

How to build .NET Microservices

We would like to share with you very interesting NDC Conference session from Sydney which describes pros and cons of a microservices solution and how you can build one using .NET and a number of open source tools like EventStore, RabbitMq and Redis. Presentation was done by Richard Banks and you can watch it on YouTube:

January 2, 2017

60% discount for Starter plan

First, we would like to wish you happy & prosperous new year! For this opportunity we would also like to give you nice gift: remarkable 60% OFF for new customers on first purchase! If you purchase our yearly Starter plan you will pay only €19.96 for entire year for 25 one-minute monitors! This is just €0.80 for each one-minute monitor per year (or approximately €0.067 per month) ! This offer makes AppBeat most affordable monitoring solution on planet.

December 23, 2016

We wish you high uptime and successful new year!

It has been great first year for AppBeat and thank you very much for that! We wish you happy and peaceful holidays! Your AppBeat team!

December 19, 2016

All plans upgraded with unlimited email alerts

As of today, all our plans are upgraded with unlimited (unmetered) email alerts for your monitors. Happy holidays!

December 10, 2016

Upgraded website monitor: now supporting multi-user login

Today we published new web application with one of the most requested feature for our advanced users - multi-user login! This functionality is very suitable for larger companies and DevOps teams, where it is prefered for each member to have its own AppBeat sub account (and not sharing primary account with all your users anymore). Currently it is possible to add up to 25 power users for your subscription. These users have very similar permissions to primary account administrator with following restrictions:

December 5, 2016

Special offer for Pingdom, StatusCake and UptimeRobot users

Have more than 50 periodic web monitors and want to save some money? You are not satisfied with your current monitoring service quality? Don’t worry, we have something special for you! In December 2016 and January 2017 we offer you three months free service for any of our paid packages! In this free period you will experience our superior service quality, without monitoring outages or false positive detections! Our solution was architected from the ground up with reliability and robustness in mind.

November 27, 2016

Robust and affordable Browser as a Service (BaaS)

That is our goal for next year! We want to offer you real browsers, for example Chrome and Firefox, so you can periodically check if your web application always behaves as it should. This kind of service will be very useful for your continuous integration and testing your website after you deploy new version into production environment. If you would like to participate in closed beta, please contact us.

November 23, 2016

C# method for very fast and efficient traceroute (network diagnostic tool)

We like C#, .NET and .NET Core! Last time we played a little bit with traceroute utility and thought, could we write something fast, efficient, and since we love Asynchronous Programming with async and await (C#), something that would include this pattern as well? Here is what we came up with :) using System; using System.Diagnostics; using System.Diagnostics.Contracts; using System.IO; using System.Net.NetworkInformation; using System.Text; using System.Threading.Tasks; namespace AppBeat.Core.Utility { public class TraceRoute { private const string DATA = “AppBeat Monitoring - https://appbeat.