Uptime Monitoring
2013/11/16 Leave a comment
Our probe server in California [CA] will be changing IP addresses on 2013/11/21:
CA will change from 173.254.226.131 to 98.143.145.67
No data loss is expected. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Please adjust your firewalls appropriately so your checks are not blocked.
A current and updated list of all the IP addresses for our probe servers can be found in the FAQ.
[UPDATE – 2013-11-21 20:26GMT-6] – CA IP address change complete
2013/09/24 Leave a comment
Our probe servers in the following locations will be changing IP addresses on 2013/10/01:
NJ will change from 108.61.56.241 to 192.3.25.36
CA will change from 173.255.243.111 to 173.254.226.131
LD will change from 89.32.145.126 to 109.73.168.10
NL will change from 46.249.33.15 to 176.56.238.119
DE will change from 78.47.40.108 to 130.255.191.151
No data loss is expected. There may be a few minute delay when any of your checks running on the current probe servers are moved to the new ones.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
Please adjust your firewalls appropriately so your checks do not fail because the probe IP addresses are blocked.
An always current and updated list of all the IP addresses for our probe servers can be found in the FAQ.
[UPDATE – 2013-10-01 20:12GMT-6] – All IP changes have completed
2013/07/24 Leave a comment
Our HTTP checks for website monitoring at NodePing already include our standard HTTP Check, the HTTP Content Check that lets you verify that specific content is present or is not present in the page, and the HTTP Parse Check that allows you to track and alert on arbitrary data points in the response. Today we’re excited to announce that we’re adding the HTTP Advanced Check to our HTTP line up.
The new HTTP Advanced Check adds the following capabilities:
This will allow you to do more in-depth monitoring of your HTTP services. Use cases may include:
Additional information about this new check type can be found in our documentation.
The HTTP Advanced check is now available on all NodePing accounts. All accounts also include unlimited notifications, including international SMS. If you don’t have a NodePing account yet, please sign up for our free 15-day free trial.
2013/04/12 Leave a comment
We announced the initial release of our public status pages for our web site and server monitoring service a couple of weeks ago. These pages allow you to have a public status page for all of your servers and websites in one place. Since then, we’ve worked to add some additional enhancements that we think will be particularly useful.
First, we’ve added custom domains. This allows you to set up a URL such as https://status.example.com as your public status page. Just add a cname record to your DNS to point the domain to nodeping.com, and add the domain or subdomain to the report settings in your NodePing account (under Account Settings -> Reporting), and the custom URL will be available within 30 seconds or so. Once you have a custom domain set up, all of your public reports are available on that domain.
We’ve also added links to reports on individual check results. Any checks for which you have enabled public reports will include a link on the status page to go to the individual report. At the same time, we tweaked the individual results report so that the long list of results only shows if you click on the “Show Details” button. We got some feedback that the whole list is a little overwhelming, so we’ve made the information still available but not shown by default.
Finally, we’ve made a few cosmetic tweaks to the reports and to the reports settings page.
We have a number of additional features and enhancements we’re planning to add to these reports still, but we hope what we’ve done so far is already useful to everybody. As always, feedback and suggestions are welcome. Let us know what you think at support@nodeping.com, by posting comments here, or by using our Contact Page.
2013/04/01 Leave a comment
One of the frequent requests we get is for a public status page that lists the status of several server monitoring checks in one place. There is a lot to this particular feature, but we’re pleased to announce that the first version of this feature is now available on NodePing.
The status report allows you to select any of your active checks for listing on the status page. Any number of checks can be included. Just go in to the Reporting tab under Account Settings and select the checks you want to have displayed. The tab also shows the URL for your status report page.
The report has a “title” field, which is displayed at the top of the page. This field supports HTML, so you can add tags to style the look of the top of the page. That includes using an img tag to show your logo or other branding type information at the top of the page. For examples, you can look at https://nodeping.com/reports/status/MTSL1PQUZC and https://nodeping.com/reports/status/P9H0LI94W7. Script tags and other cross site scripting will be filtered. Provider accounts have additional control over the look of the page using the site branding features.
We didn’t want to just start publishing information without allowing people to opt-in to this featuer, so by default this report is not enabled. Enabling it is just a few clicks.
There are a number of additional features that we plan to add to this report, including more customization, links to individual check result pages, and custom URLs. In the meantime, feedback and suggestions are always welcome at support@nodeping.com.
2013/03/29 Leave a comment
Our probe servers in Texas [TX] and New Jersey [NJ] will be changing IP addresses on 2013/04/02:
TX will change from 69.164.201.21 to 204.11.60.100
NJ will change from 96.126.109.97 to 108.61.56.241
No data loss is expected. There may be a few minute delay when any of your checks running on the current probe servers are moved to the new ones.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
Please adjust your firewalls appropriately so your checks are not blocked.
A current and updated list of all the IP addresses for our probe servers can be found in the FAQ.
[UPDATE – 2013-04-02] – The change is complete.
2013/03/19 Leave a comment
At NodePing we are constantly striving to provide the best server monitoring service at absolutely the best price we can. Our goal is to be as useful as we can to meet your day to day monitoring needs for both web and server monitoring, at a price that removes all barriers for best practice monitoring for every service, everywhere.
In line with that goal, today we are changing the Business plan to add unlimited webhook notifications. Previously those were only available in the Provider plan.
Webhooks allow you to trigger actions on other sites based on events from NodePing’s monitoring system. This allows you to automate actions on your servers when a web site goes up or down. Common uses include changing DNS settings when a server goes offline and restarting a database when it fails.
Our hope is that including webhooks in the Business plan will make NodePing’s most popular plan even more useful for businesses the world over. A lot of what we do is based on feedback, so please continue to let us know how we can continue to make our service fit your needs even better.
2013/01/17 Leave a comment
Our probe server in the Netherlands will be changing IP addresses on 2013/01/18:
From 46.249.62.70 to 46.249.33.15
We apologize for any inconvenience. It’s a forced server move from our host there.
Please adjust your firewalls appropriately so your checks are not blocked.
[UPDATE – 2013-01-18] – The change is complete.
2012/11/20 Leave a comment
We updated the web application that provides the front end to our website and server monitoring service today. Most of the changes to the site are incremental improvements. Most notably, we’ve been working on our billing system to make it more flexible and support tiered billing.
At the same time, we have made a minor adjustment to our Terms of Service. Ironically, the change to our Terms of Service is about changes to the Terms of Service. In light of some recent news stories about other companies, we wanted to make it clear that our ToS can change, but that changes impact you when you have actual notice of the change. We don’t have any intention of sneaking in changes that materially alter what you agreed to when you signed up without giving you notice and a chance to decide if you wish to continue to use the service.
We will continue to work on improving and extending our service. NodePing is already an outstanding monitoring service and an excellent value. We are committed to providing the best monitoring service for the best price. We think we are already doing that, and we plan to make it continually better yet.
Your feedback, as always, is welcome both here in the comments, on our Contact page, or in email to support@nodeping.com.
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