Monitoring Resources

Description: Brand24 provides a reliable, easy to use, and affordable solution to get instant access to online mentions relevant to your brand, products, competitors or topic of interest. It allows you to both track and engage online conversations relevant to your business. Follow-up on positive comments from your brand ambassadors, or respond to a dissatisfied customer before the story gets ahead of you. 80% of consumers do research or ask online before making a buying decision. Brand24 gives you the listening tools to find these leads, identify where to promote products and find customers before they find you!

Link: brand24.net

Description: Datadog is a monitoring and analytics platform for cloud-scale application infrastructure. Combining metrics from servers, databases, and applications, Datadog delivers sophisticated, actionable alerts, and provides real-time visibility of your entire infrastructure. Datadog includes 100+ vendor-supported, prebuilt integrations and monitors hundreds of thousands of hosts.

Link: datadoghq.com

Description: This is not for site monitoring, but more for creating a dashboard to monitor the overall health of your business. Neatly integrates with 35+ APIs so that you can create a data-rich dashboard to monitor everything about your business/site, from traffic to conversion to revenue to social media followings. Keep an eye on your business's health with a Neatly dashboard.

Link: neatly.io

Description: I just started using Monitor.us in order to watch uptime of my sites, and be warned of any 404 errors that come up, or any other issues. It's pretty comprehensive, and has a nice dashboard, and best of all it's totally free for the basic (but very adequate) version that checks your site every half hour.

Link: monitor.us

Description: Free while it's in beta, RorVsWild tracks the health and performance of your Ruby on Rails app and watches for errors. Use it to monitor for bugs, and pinpoint bottlenecks in your system.

Link: rorvswild.com

Description: StatusCake monitors all aspects of your site, including if you're added to any blacklists. A "Free for life" plan provides simpler monitoring, and their paid plans have even more.

Link: statuscake.com