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Network Downtime

Our data center had a fiber cut which caused our servers network connectivity to fail. The downtime started around 2 PM ET and lasted until 12 AM ET. If you get any PushMon alerts and things look good on your end, remember that it might have been caused by your PushMon URL pings not reaching our servers. Things are back … Read More

Make sure your whole system is running smoothly.

Processes that run regularly in the background are often unmonitored or send emails regardless of success or failure. This makes it hard for you to notice when things go wrong. Make sure your servers are up, even if they are not accessible from the internet. Make sure your cron jobs or scheduled tasks run on time. Make sure your backup scripts are running as expected. Make sure your hourly scripts are running continuously. Get notified when they don't.

Making sure that the different parts of your system is running fine is easy to do. Just create a PushMon URL and call that URL on the schedule you specify. If we don't hear from you, you will hear from us. We have sample code to get you started quickly.