Pinger Man Blog

Monitor Blocked Ports

by Partho Sarathi

Ensure ports are blocked from outside using Port monitors

Follow HTTP meta tags in HTTP Monitor

by Partho Sarathi

Follow HTTP meta tags inside HTML HEAD Tags

Follow JavaScript redirects in HTTP Monitor

by Partho Sarathi

Follow HTTP redirects via JavaScript code inside script blocks

What is the HTTP Protocol?

by Partho Sarathi

Learn the basics of HTTP protocol, how it works, and some of its most important features

5 Reasons Why Your Startup Needs Website Monitoring

by Partho Sarathi

Learn the top 5 reasons to use a monitoring service for your Startup's website

Everything You Need to Know about SSL Certificates

by Partho Sarathi

Learn the basics of SSL certificates, why they are used, how to create, monitor and revoke them

Monitor Dashboard UI Enhancements

by Partho Sarathi

Today we published several user interface improvements on the Monitor Dashboard

Monitor NameCheap Domains

by Partho Sarathi

Automatically create WHOIS monitors for all your domains on NameCheap

View Checks

by Partho Sarathi

See the individual checks for each monitor, location we tested from and how long it took

Keyword & HTTP Monitor Merged

by Partho Sarathi

Keyword monitor has been merged with HTTP monitor

Slack Integration

by Partho Sarathi

Pinger Man can now send Messages on Slack channels to notify you regarding downtime

SMS Notifications

by Partho Sarathi

You can now add a phone number and get notified about your website's uptime status via SMS.

Event Notes

by Partho Sarathi

You can now add custom notes to downtime and uptime events

Website Defacement Monitoring

by Partho Sarathi

Monitor websites for unauthorized modifications and receive instant alerts

REST API

by Partho Sarathi

Integrate Pinger Man with your applications using our APIs

Match expected URL in HTTP Monitor

by Partho Sarathi

Validate the response URL after resolving all redirects in HTTP monitor

ICANN's Role in Domain Name Registration

by Partho Sarathi

What is ICANN? What role does it play on the Internet?

Apdex Score for Monitors

by Partho Sarathi

Get a clear picture of how your application is performing using the Apdex score

SSL Monitoring

by Partho Sarathi

Cost effective SSL monitoring for hundreds of HTTP and FTP Servers

Bulk Import of WHOIS Monitors

by Partho Sarathi

Quickly create hundreds of WHOIS monitors from a list of domain names

Monitor Route53 Domains

by Partho Sarathi

Automatically create WHOIS monitors for all your domains in AWS Route53

DNS Monitoring

by Partho Sarathi

DNS monitoring allows you to make sure DNS queries return expected result

WHOIS Monitoring

by Partho Sarathi

Use WHOIS Monitor to receive domain expiration alerts

Twitter Integration

by Partho Sarathi

Pinger Man can now send Direct Messages on Twitter to notify you regarding downtime

Public Status Pages

by Partho Sarathi

Pinger Man now supports creation of Public Status Pages. You can share the status of your services with your customers using a dashboard maintained by Pinger Man and top it off by using your own domain name.

Advanced Alerts

by Partho Sarathi

Advanced alert capabilities to ignore minor downtime, escalate events and persistent alerts

Raw Keyword Check in HTTP Monitor

by Partho Sarathi

Validate raw content in HTTP monitors such as HTML code

Sharing files temporarily using S3

by Partho Sarathi

Learn how to use pre-signed URLs in S3 to grant temporary access to files in your account

Domain Status Change Alert

by Partho Sarathi

Receive alerts when a domain's status changes

Bulk Importing HTTP, PING, PORT and SSL Monitors

by Partho Sarathi

We have extended bulk import of monitors ability to most of our monitors

New Statistics for Checks

by Partho Sarathi

Individual monitor checks will now display more stats for HTTP, SSL and WHOIS monitors

Focused WHOIS Monitoring

by Partho Sarathi

See all your WHOIS monitors in one place and quickly find out the ones about to expire

View Monitors by Type

by Partho Sarathi

See all the monitors of a particular type in one place

WHOIS Monitor Quota

by Partho Sarathi

WHOIS Monitors now have their own limit separate from other monitors

Weekly Reports

by Partho Sarathi

Pinger Man now sends weekly reports via emails to the default contacts

Website Launched

by Partho Sarathi

Pinger Man goes public with a powerful website monitoring service. Today we launched Pinger Man, a powerful but easy uptime monitoring service. You can monitor 5 URLs with a frequency of 5 minutes for absolutely FREE!

Webhooks

by Partho Sarathi

Webhooks are now supported as a new type of Contact allowing you to call your HTTP URLs and respond to downtime and uptime events.