Nowadays many organizations are doing their businesses online because people using the Internet for shopping and availing services. They are, therefore, maintaining websites for the people or end-users in which reliable content of products and services are providing in order to increase the company’s revenues. So company wants to know that whether end-users are visiting their website, or whether the information they are provided in the website is good, or whether the website is available even at peak level (When many end-users are accessing the same information at the same time). Therefore, to run their website perfectly, they use web monitoring services.
Here most companies choose these services wrongly. Some companies are applying strategies in choosing the monitoring services. However, the type of monitoring service should be selected according to the business needs and also based on your budget.
For businesses, it is important to have more number of dashboards. Business runs successful when it follows certain basic rules like: Your business website should always be available to the end-users who visited to your website and there should not be any downtime in your website. However, downtime can be dealt with the help of the web monitoring service.
Good monitoring services generate real time reports when the error occurs and if these are something amiss. These services have agents and these agents monitor inside and out. These monitoring agents check your web-servers, HTTP servers, FTP servers, SMTP, IMAP and DNS, video streaming servers etc. An alert message is immediately sent to the web master whenever there is any downtime. Commercial monitoring services have many features and have many capabilities in finding out but it is difficult to operate by the inexperienced web masters.
So, it is advisable that before you make use of any service, try to read the short guide of it for optimum usage.