Episode 124: Website Issue Monitoring Faceoff Show

Don't let issues and problems go unnoticed.
News and Follow-Ups – 00:38

Apple taking the cloud seriously, doing OS upgrades in the cloud
Ninjabutton goes down, how much can you depend on web services?
Ebay aquires Magento
Jade's iTunes account compromised
Skype protocol reverse engineered

Geek Tools – 14:45

Belkin Conserve Smart AV F7C007q Energy-Saving Power Strip

Webapps - 17:33

TravelPod Traveler IQ Game - How well do you know your geography?
Explorra Visual DNA - Visually select good vacations

Website Issue Monitoring - 22:01

Website Issue Monitoring

Uptime

Browsermob - Multiple locations and adjust time
Uptimerobot - Totally free, includes SMS support
Pingdom - Response times, error analysis

Free account 1 website with 20 free SMS messages




Load Time

Browsermob - Multiple locations and adjust time
Pingdom - Response times, error analysis
Google Webmaster Tools


Error Tracking

Google webmaster tools, 404s unreachable to spider
You need to track when people hit errors, so you can fix them
Think about your error messages, ala Rails "Someone has been notified"
Methods

App Emails You
Exception Hub
Hoptoad




Traffic Jams

Google analytics traffic spike alerts via email/sms

Set for no traffic
Set for high traffic