Comments on: A super simple Magento store monitoring tool powered by Google App Engine

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:57:39 +0000

Going to give this a go.

I think this is genius and generous.

Good man, thank you!

By: Ashley

Ashley — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 05:22:37 +0000

Thanks for telling me about them, looks like a cool service, just too much of a cheapskate to pay for it!

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:42:17 +0000

Why not use a service like pingdom. Simple, reliable, lots of features (charts, SMS/email alerts) 1 minute polling intervals.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:51:04 +0000

I think Magento’s error page sends a 500 error code, so my app will detect that, the database error may depend on what response code is sent. That said we could improve the monitor to actually do things like add to cart, or login as a test customer – to ensure actual functionality, not just responsiveness.

By: Brady

Brady — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:19:49 +0000

Wow – what a great solution! Thank you so much for sharing this!

One question I have – does this check if the Magento site is actually working, or just if the server is responding? I’ve had our site go down but show Magento’s error page, or even a MySQL max users database error, which doesn’t throw a “down” error on other monitoring services I’ve tried.

Thanks!