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Web Site Monitoring Services

  Last Updated: July 8th, 2003

  By Bruce Boardman


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Follow Bruce Boardman as he evaluates Web Site Monitoring Services. Between now and October, when we publish Bruce's test results, you can access his preliminary findings and anecdotal experiences here. You can also ask Bruce questions via our Shop Talk Forum.

Test Particulars
  • Reviewer: Executive Editor/Technology, Bruce Boardman
  • Product/Service: Web site performance monitoring/measuring services
  • Publication Date: October 2nd, 2003
  • Test Location: Green Bay NWC Inc. network and Syracuse University Labs
  • Review Objectives: We will consider how well each service monitors the NWC Inc. manufacturing site. Orders are placed world wide by NWC Inc.'s widget customers, to the main corporate site located in Green Bay Wis. Those orders are then filled by our manufacturing site in Syracuse NY.
  • Test Criteria:
    • Alerting and fault management
    • Service level reporting and management
    • Cost
    • Performance Monitoring
    • Capacity Trending
    • Diagnostics
  • Participating Vendors:
    • 1st Monitor
    • Alert Me First
    • AlertSite
    • BMC
    • Dotcomm-monitor
    • Elk Forke
    • Keynote
    • Gomez


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