Re: [Webware-discuss] Application monitoring

[Oliver B. <ol...@g7...>]

On 05/11/2004, at 05:34, Ian Bicking wrote:
> I'm wondering if anyone could recommend an application for monitoring 
> a web application?  Preferably fairly generic, as not all the 
> applications are using Webware (i.e., not just Monitor.py).  I guess 
> Big Brother is a little like this, but I'm only really interested in 
> web applications, so something specific to that might have a better 
> set of features.

I get CRON to run a remote regression test every few minutes.  I have 
fixed my test so that there is no output when everything works so I 
only get an e-mail from CRON when the test fails.  Of course if I'm 
away from my computer for a while then I will sometimes receive many 
e-mails, but it does not take long to delete them.  (You can also 
direct the e-mails to an SMS service if you want to know immediately 
there is a problem, but you need to stop duplicates.)

Of course I use http://maxq.tigris.org/ to make the regression tests.  
(Note: the author is a contributor to MaxQ.)  MaxQ scripts are written 
in Jython which might suit you lot, but it is undoubtedly less stable 
than equivalent commercial products.


    Oliver