For about a year, my company had been struggling to roll out a monitoring solution. False positives and inaccurate after-hours pages were affecting morale and wasting system administrators' time.

We are soon releasing PushMon, a free monitoring service for scripts, batches and jobs. The basic idea is that cron scripts will "ping" a URL on a regular basis, and will notify the user if this "ping ...

Clients for Linux, BSD, Windows, Mac OS X and commercial UNIXes. Database back end (MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL or SQLite). Auto-discovery mode. Web-based interface. Notifications via e-mail, SMS or ...

There's an old DevOps story of a developer who, when asked by a member of the ops team why an app isn't running on the live servers, replies "It's just fine on my laptop". To which the only reply is ...