SiteUp

This software can monitor a list of website for their available/unavailable status.

SiteUp is a software tool that monitors the availability status of specified web sites. You can actually specify a list of such sites that you want monitored. It will check the availability status at specified intervals that can be down to a minute. The interval can be as extended as a full day. When it fails to get a response from a site, it will retry, to determine if the server failure is a temporary one, or it is persisting. The number of retries can be specified too. The tool checks page contents too. Thus it can detect if a particular page is unreachable or the server hosting the site has crashed. The number of sites that can be monitored are unlimited. The interface can be minimized and the tool will operate from the tray. In case of a problem you’ll get an animated alarm.

On clicking on the tray icon you get a complete list with indicators that show if a particular site is working or not. The working site names get a green tick against the name while the problematic ones get a balloon indicator against them. Logs are collected and you are able to find out how long a particular site has been down. The interface lets you set several monitoring parameters. Checkbox controls for some options are available. These include if you want to get a message when a previously unavailable site becomes available, display log when the site becomes available after a fault, auto start on windows start-up and auto check for Internet connection. The status shows if each of the sites were up at the last monitoring interval and a time indicator against a failed site indicates the time from which it is down.

SiteUp monitors your web sites and warns you when any become unreachable (e.g. when a server crashes). Because it checks page content it can even detect when the server is OK, but a site or page is unavailable. There is no limit to the number of sites that can be monitored, including secure sites, and the checking frequency can be anywhere between once a minute and once a day. When a site goes down the system tray icon will change to an animated alarm and optionally you are displayed a warning message. When a site becomes available again you can view a log to determine how long the site has been down.