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What is uptime monitoring and why is it important?

What is uptime monitoring?

Uptime monitoring is the practice of regularly checking the availability and performance of a website, server, or application to ensure that it is accessible to users and performing as expected. This is typically done using automated tools that perform checks at set intervals, such as every minute or every five minutes. The purpose of uptime monitoring is to minimize downtime, improve website performance, ensure compliance, enhance security, and support business continuity.

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March 17, 2023 Educational No comments yet

No more unnecessary investigations, Scheduled maintenances is here!

Hello,

We are thrilled to announce the new feature on Xitoring, that lets you create “Maintenance Schedules” for your uptime checks and servers in order to avoid false positive alerts or inaccurate reporting of downtime during a maintenance window. The feature is available for free and paid users without any limitations. Selected monitoring Checks or Servers will be paused during the maintenance window, also the status will be reflected on your Public Status Page automatically to inform your users.

 

 

Is it necessary to pause monitoring during maintenance?

It depends on the type of maintenance being performed and the specific requirements of the organization. In some cases, it may be necessary to pause uptime monitoring during maintenance to avoid false positives or inaccurate reporting of downtime.

For example, if the maintenance activity involves taking the system or service offline or making changes to critical components, uptime monitoring may need to be paused until the maintenance is completed. Otherwise, the monitoring system may generate false alerts or report false downtime, which could lead to confusion and unnecessary investigations.

On the other hand, if the maintenance activity is not expected to impact the uptime of the system or service, uptime monitoring may not need to be paused. In fact, continuing to monitor uptime during maintenance can help identify any unexpected issues that may arise during the maintenance activity.

Ultimately, the decision to pause uptime monitoring during maintenance should be based on an assessment of the potential impact of the maintenance on system uptime, as well as the specific requirements and objectives of the organization. It is important to communicate any changes in monitoring to relevant stakeholders to ensure clear expectations are set.

 

If you need help creating your first maintenance you can read more on Docs or contact support@xitoring.com anytime!

Thanks.

 

March 10, 2023 Blog No comments yet
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How a public status page help your business?

What’s a public status page?

A public status page often offers a summary of the service’s current status, including information such as whether the service is currently up or down, as well as any known faults or events. A timeline of recent events, such as when an issue was originally reported, when it was resolved, and what efforts were made to remedy it, may also be included. Some public status pages also offer information about other connected services and their current state, as well as contact information for the company’s support team. Some service providers host their status pages with third-party solutions, allowing them to integrate the status page into their own website and deliver real-time updates, notifications, and historical data to their clients.

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January 29, 2023 Thought Leadership No comments yet
Public Status Page

Xitoring Launches Public Status Page

Leading provider of IT monitoring solutions, Xitoring, is pleased to announce the release of its brand-new solution for public status pages. Businesses can use the platform to build their own public status pages that update clients on the status of their goods and services in real time, including any known problems or outages.

The platform allows businesses to give their consumers real-time updates, notifications, and historical data. It is simple to use, configurable, and can be linked into a company’s own website. This enhances communication and transparency, assisting businesses in earning the trust of their clients by demonstrating their openness regarding any problems that might harm their service.

“When it comes to IT services, we at Xitoring recognize the value of openness and communication,” stated Xitoring Co-Founder Saman Soltani. “Our new tool enables businesses to design their own status pages, offering real-time information to their consumers regarding the operation of their services and any disruptions that may occur, assisting them in improving the overall customer experience.”

The public status feature is available for businesses of all sizes and can be accessed through Xitoring’s website. Businesses may start creating their own status pages after signing up for a free trial.

Xitoring is committed to providing businesses with the tools they need to improve communication and transparency with their customers. The public status page platform is the latest addition to the company’s offerings, and it is expected to help businesses to improve the performance and availability of their IT infrastructure.

Xitoring was introduced in 2021 with the goal of revolutionizing the server monitoring industry. The company’s automated platform is the latest addition to its offerings and is aimed at businesses that are tired of traditional ways of server monitoring and are looking for more efficient and automated solutions.

Sign up here to start creating your own status page within 5 minutes!

Read more on Public Status Page

 

January 22, 2023 Blog No comments yet

Xitoring Launches new User Interface and Dashboard!

It’s very thrilling to announce that we have re-coded our whole user interface with the latest technologies using React v18 to improve the user experience. Our frontend engineers and product team is working very hard for daily builds, adding features, and applying bug fixes.

The mobile experience is improved significantly compared to the latest version, also we now have Dark mode!

New drag-and-dropable widgets on the dashboard let you have a glance at your Servers, Uptime Checks, Incidents, or account-related stuff like login sessions or billing.

Dark mode:

Light mode:

Xitoring Dashboard light mode

 

Stay tuned, we have plenty of good news to be announced shortly!

We are always reachable at support@xitoring.com if you have any questions or feedback.

December 12, 2022 Blog No comments yet
Windows Server Monitoring

Xitoring now supports Windows Server monitoring!

We are thrilled to announce that Xitoring now offers Windows Server monitoring! It has been always a significant feature request from our customers to have this feature, and now we are very proud to have your requirement fulfilled =)

Our first product was Xigent v1 only supports a few Linux-based operating systems, then we went ahead developing a new version called v2 for Linux which now supports the major version of distributions. According to public statistics, Linux servers have about 15% of the market share and the rest belongs to Windows Servers which is about %73 of the market share. Our product will be very beneficial for Windows Server users we believe it has made the whole process much easier for them to Install, set up, and maintain. Our near competitors for Windows Server monitoring offers much more complex solution with higher rates. The belief and mindset behind our products are simplicity and ease of use, although the data we collect from servers are comprehensive. Your server will be connected to your nearest Xitoring node for the least network latency, and the date you sent, is fully analyzed and visualized.

We provide live statistics for Windows Server and also useful historical graphs for each component including CPU usage, Top Processes, Memory Usage, Disk usage, Disk IO, Network statistics, Netstat data, and much more!

The following versions of Windows Server are officially supported:

  • Windows Server 2012
  • Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Windows Server 2016
  • Windows Server 2019
  • Windows Server 2022

Right after your installation of Xitogent on your Windows Server, you will receive an email indicating your Server is successfully registered and added to monitoring. we automatically and optionally detect running services on your public IP address and create checks and triggers for them. supported check types at the moment are HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, FTP, POP3, IMAP, SMTP, PING, and a few more.

All Xitoring users can benefit from a free plan to monitor up to 5 servers at no cost! You can read the Xitoring Windows manual for more information.

Registration and adding a Windows server is exactly like the previous Linux installation, you need only to copy a command, paste it into your PowerShell, and the rest is done automatically.

You can always contact our support team if you need any help installing Windows Server Xitogent.

Read more about Windows Server monitoring solutions.

November 14, 2022 Blog No comments yet
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How metric monitoring increases server uptime?

In today’s world, where experience is everything and users look more at the digital experience while deriving satisfaction, server infrastructure performance is an important stake in determining application success. There, users do ask for speed, reliability, and consistency-and any slack regarding these could amount to dissatisfaction, lost revenue, or even damage to your brand’s reputation. While one may argue that the unsung heroes are the servers, driving everything from websites and mobile apps to complex enterprise systems, this requires a lot more than just setting up. To keep them running well, constant attention and watching out for them with strategic optimization become operable. This article examines the key metrics that measure server performance and provides actionable tips for improvement and maintains why vigilance is so important in ensuring a high-performing digital ecosystem.

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July 11, 2022 Tutorial No comments yet
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Agent-less vs Agent-based Monitoring

In today’s digital world, IT infrastructure reliability and performance are becoming critical to business success. Monitoring, in effect, acts as the backbone of such efforts in enabling organizations to detect issues at an early stage, optimizing resource utilization, and minimizing downtime. However, finding the right way to monitor may be a challenge as modern IT environments are growing more complex. There are two major approaches mainly: agent-based monitoring and agent-less monitoring; each with various advantages and challenges. Understand the difference; understand the strength, the limitation, and thus make an educated choice. This blog compares side-by-side two different approaches, presenting Xitoring, which offers combined strengths from both for the comprehensive, efficient, and scalable monitoring of infrastructure.

What is Agent-less Monitoring?

Agent-less monitoring refers to the process of monitoring and data collection from servers, network devices, and other IT components without the need for software agents on the monitored systems. It would, therefore, rely on other external mechanisms to gather information. This approach thus becomes highly useful in an environment where deploying agents is either not practical or highly undesirable. There are generally two ways in which agent-less monitoring is done:

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June 29, 2022 Educational No comments yet
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Server monitoring vs Uptime monitoring

What is Server Uptime?

The current uptime of a server is the time elapsed since its last reboot. Years, months, days, hours, minutes, and seconds express uptime. Uptime starts at 0 (zero) every time the server starts up again, and it keeps going up as long as the server is working.

Why is Uptime Monitoring Important?

Monitoring is standard in the IT industry because it allows you to maintain the ideal state of the company’s servers. The server performance monitoring procedure is pretty straightforward; it routinely collects server data and analyzes it in real-time or retrospectively. This enables us to guarantee that the servers run properly, delivering their intended purpose.
You may monitor nearly everything, including processor performance control, memory consumption, network, and disk space bandwidth, and server-related issues. However, understanding how to monitor a server is insufficient. It is essential to comprehend why it is such an integral component of its security. The purpose of monitoring is to provide information on failures and performance issues and to anticipate and prevent problems. In practice, this implies that faults or anomalies are discovered so quickly that the entire organization’s service, application, or operation is not halted. As a result, the company’s server infrastructure functions properly and reliably, and the company does not incur losses due to lengthy system outages.

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June 22, 2022 Educational No comments yet

Xitogent v2 released

Hello!

We are very pleased to announce a new major version of Xitogent which has lots of improvements. Xitogent is now served on our private repositories for Debian and Redhat distributions and can be easily installed and upgraded on any Linux server. It’s written in Go Programming Language and it’s super-fast, has a smaller footprint, and provides wide OS support.

Xitogent v1 was our first product for agent-based monitoring solution on Linux and there has been a lot of issues and bugs which has been addressed over the time, but it has been months that it didn’t get any new patches and version because we have been working hard to provide a new major and stable version for enterprise usage.

Here are a few lists of features and changes on V2:

  • Improved service manager
  • Improved daemon
  • Log rotation handling
  • Netstat Statistics Support
  • Docker Statistics Support
  • Ability to pause or unpause sending data from Xitogent cli
  • Ability to trigger check discovery from Xitogent cli
  • Disk I/O calculation is now more accurate
  • Network statistics are now more accurate
  • New installer which supports GPG key for more security
  • Fix bugs parsing config file in some cases
  • and many small bug fixes!

All users using Xitogent v1 can update to v2 using one command, if you need help upgrading to v2 please contact us at support@xitoring.com any time.

We will stop support for Xitogent v1 by July 31st, please make sure to upgrade as soon as possible.

You can read more about Xitogent here: https://xitoring.com/docs/

About Xitogent

Xitogent runs as a service on your server and automatically sends your server statistics continuously to your nearest Xitoring’s Server and we use the data to generate graphs or find out if something’s wrong on your server (e.g. we’ll automatically notify you if your CPU or memory usage is above normal). It runs on a recurring interval and sends statistics to the nearest probe node, we’ll use the data to make sure everything is fine on your server and then use it to make useful graphs (Server Load, CPU Usage, Memory Usage, Disk IO, and Disk Usage).

If you’re new to Xitoring, you can register in a minute and start monitoring 5 Linux servers at no cost forever!

Stay tuned! more features are coming!

May 5, 2022 Blog No comments yet