Site Status & Monitoring Tools

Open Source Enterprise monitoring tools from well established monitoring player.

Wordfence Central provides Wordpress site owners with an efficient way to manage the security of many WordPress sites via a single interface. It includes a powerful dashboard, a single interface to view and manage security findings across all of your websites and powerful new tools that make managing Wordfence configuration for your websites a breeze. If you use Wordfence Central then please allow this bot to access your site.

WPMU DEV Monitor enables Wordpress site owners and developers to track uptime and performance and receive immediate downtime updates. In addition it measures the responsiveness of your web server (TTFB). Monitor’s advanced API checks sites every two minutes and alerts you immediately if a site is down or slow. If you subscribe to this service for your Wordpress site, you should allow this crawler.

Offers a periodic visual check of your website. The solution captures a screenshot, then checks periodically and compares the results.

Provides Uptime, Speed, Transaction and user monitoring functions for your website.

This bot indexes your site checking for domains that are about to expire.

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They claim to be the worlds leading uptime monitoring service, who can say for sure, they do however provide Website monitoring, SSL certificate monitoring, Port & ping monitoring and Cron job monitoring (heartbeat)Add this bot if you subscribe to any of their service.

Pingometer monitors your site every 1-30 min. It offers HTTP, HTTPS, RUM, DNS, ICMP, IMAP, POP3, SMTP, TCP, UDP, API, and Transaction monitors.

Cloud based Website monitoring from the Teamviewer family (Monitor.Us & Monitis)

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SolarWinds® Network Performance Monitor (NPM) is a powerful and affordable network monitoring software that enables you to quickly detect, diagnose, and resolve network performance problems and outages.

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Site 24x7 provide a multi-faceted website and infrastructure monitoring solution providing uptime and performance insights to their customers. Site 24x7 is also available as part of the ManageWP solution for WordPress sites, so check with your team and allow this bot if you subscribe directly or as part of your ManageWP bundle.

Are My Sites Up will check your sites as frequently as once per minute. You get unlimited email and SMS notifications (in the US, International SMS is available) providing the HTML status error code, when possible. They also provide an iPhone application, RSS feeds, webhooks, keyword search, premium-level support, email notifications to multiple addresses, multiple user accounts, voice calls and more!

Pingdom is a global performance and availability monitoring solution for websites, applications and servers. This comprehensive monitoring platform helps businesses deliver the best possible web experience. Pingdom isn’t just uptime monitoring: it can also monitor the the load performance of your page, make sure your most important site interactions function smoothly and see how visitors experience the site, all from a single, powerful platform.

Pingdom is a global performance and availability monitoring solution for websites, applications and servers. This comprehensive monitoring platform helps businesses deliver the best possible web experience. Pingdom isn’t just uptime monitoring: it can also monitor the the load performance of your page, make sure your most important site interactions function smoothly and see how visitors experience the site, all from a single, powerful platform.

Pingdom has now evolved into a comprehensive suite of monitoring tools, and not just pings. It can be used to monitor applications, log-ons and transactions so you can ensure the database or core functionality of your website is working, and not just the server response.

Pingdom Page speed tester bot.

Another site monitoring tool provides alerts within 30 seconds of your site going down.

This bot just monitors 404s Site monitoring as a service.

This bot performs SSL checks to verify HTTPS certificates and HTTP checks to verify website content and server response thresholds. Node ping can be set at 1 minute intervals if desired.

New Relic's software analytics product for application performance monitoring (APM) delivers real-time and trending data about your web application's performance and the level of satisfaction that your end users experience.

web performance management tools

MxToolbox provide a host of monitoring solutions from Website (DNS/HTTP) to Email flows to Blacklists. This crawler services them all, so if you subscribe to an MxToolbox monitoring service you should allow this bot.

Uptime site monitoring

Azure Monitor is a configurable solution which collects, analyses and acts on telemetry data from a Microsoft users Azure and on-premises environments. Azure Monitor helps maximise performance and availability of your applications and proactively identify problems. Probes are served from a globally distributed network of Microsoft locations.

Hybrid Infrastructure Monitoring for DevOps Teams.

internetVista® independently and constantly monitors the Internet services of its customers and alerts them in case of an anomaly.

InternetSeer is the world's largest website monitoring service, providing accurate and reliable free hourly website monitoring to over 2.5 million websites worldwide.

Hetrix provide a Free tier (with paid for enhancements) monitoring service for websites, visiting every minute from a distributed range of data centres.

Suite of site monitoring tools.

Hardenize provides a managed service that combines host and web site discovery, network and security configuration analysis, and certificate monitoring in one package. The crawler will visit your homepage and perform a scan which results in a group of GET requests to your site.

Canadian based freeweb site monitoring tools for website uptime monitoring

worldPing is a Grafana plugin which allows you to monitor performance and availability of web assets. Allow this if you use this service in Grafana.

Offered as part of GCP, uptime checks can be set via your dashboard to run on website endpoints of your choice, so if you see this you, or someone in your organization has set this up!

Reliable uptime & performance monitoring

Enterprise-grade suite of monitoring tools Dynatrace monitors hosts as well as providing visibility across PaaS and container technologies, process detection and resource utilization, network usage and performance, log monitoring, and even third-party data and event integration.

Agent Slug is a crawler that can monitor your website. It checks both website uptime and tests for dead links.

DownNotifier sends you alerts when your website is down

The DMBrowser bot is used to continually checks web page load times in IE, Chrome and Firefox from multiple destinations around the world. The bot provides subscribers with alerts on page load speed tests, and provide pro-active diagnostics that may help pinpoint the root cause.

Datadog seamlessly unites metrics, traces, and logs.

Cronitor allows customers to manage uptime monitoring for websites, APIs and servers. Using a network of healthcheck monitors they allow their customers to easily monitor the health and availability of public endpoints.

The fastest, most reliable website backup service, which tracks all of your changes daily. CodeGuard scales to your business and your client’s business needs

Our unified suite of application and business performance monitoring solutions ensure that every part of even the most complex, multi-cloud environments—from software to infrastructure to business outcomes

The Stratus Service provides you with a global view of your hybrid network surface and provides key insights and metrics on the global state of your hybrid cloud deployments.

Comprehensive synthetic and real-user monitoring platform for the entire cloud - so you monitor the availability of each component against SLAs - DNS, CDN, API, network and wireless layers.

Jetpack is a common and powerful tool for managing your WordPress website, indeed its a pre-installed component. Very much a jack-of-all-trades it supports security, analytics and content management activities for your site. This makes a very small number of POST requests to a specific php page in your WordPress website. If you have a WordPress website you will likely want this bot, if your site is not built on the WordPress platform do not allow it. This bot is an Uptime monitor which makes regular HEAD requests to the homepage of your site.