Episode 124: Website Issue Monitoring

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