The world is increasingly moving towards a web-based economy. Regardless of what industry you are in, it is almost impossible to be competitive and to maintain a brand presence without a strong online offering. It means that your company’s website is increasingly becoming the first interaction that users, clients, and customers will have with your business. As the old saying goes, first impressions are everything – so it’s vital that your IT Team (specifically devops and Operations teams) have all the necessary tools at their disposal to make sure everything is working as it should, looks great, and is live.
With this is mind, it is important to use the most flexible and all-encompassing tools available. Why split performance monitoring, web app monitoring, server monitoring, and app performance monitoring between different providers and different tools when there are offerings in the market that can provide an all-in-one solutions? If it’s possible to monitor both your internal network and your public/private cloud infrastructure with the same software, would that not be beneficial, cheaper, and more streamlined?
One of the better tools available at the moment is Site24x7’s SaaS product. Widely recognized as the most flexible monitoring tool for IT and DevOps, they’ve featured heavily in the media and have been subject of coverage for Gartner, 451 Research, EMA, and Virtualisation Practice, amongst others.
But what makes Site24x7 so flexible? As one of their clients said, “Site24x7 is outstanding in the way it provides a swiss-army knife of various network monitoring tools at an affordable price” (Sridhar P, Director of Engineering, Sastra Technologies).
Let’s look at a number of their free tools:
They also offer SLA tools, on-premise and mobile network pollers, and end user experience monitoring, but you can check out their website for a full list of free tools.
The company offers five price plans for an incredibly affordable amount. Their basic plan – perfect for bloggers and freelancers – starts at $4.50 per month. Their two full-feature plans, which offer you the full power of all the software’s features, start at $35 per month. The lesser of the two is great for small IT teams and MSPs, while the more expensive plans ($89 and $449 per month) are aimed at SMEs and large-scale businesses.
If you’ve got any questions about their products, or you want to discuss signing up for a free 30-day trial, you can contact them via a web-form or at [email protected].
By Dan Price
