WHOIS Monitoring

2017/10/19 by Leave a comment

Need an alert when your domain is about to expire?

Want to make sure your domain admin contact hasn’t been tampered with?

Need a notification when your configured name servers get changed?

Maybe you’re running your own TLD (you lucky dog, you) and need to verify your WHOIS servers are up and responding properly?

NodePing’s new WHOIS monitoring has got you covered. Our new check will verify the presence or absence in the WHOIS response for any text you specify, helping you ensure your domain information hasn’t been hacked or altered without you knowing.  We’ll also send alerts before the domain expires. You choose how many days ahead of expiration you want to receive the notifications and how you want to be notified (email, SMS, Voice call, Pushover, Slack, etc)

You can optionally configure a specific WHOIS server to query via IPv4 or IPv6.

WHOIS checks are available to all NodePing accounts starting today. If you don’t have an account yet, sign up for your free, 15-day trial today and let NodePing keep an eye on your WHOIS info for you.

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Support for Multiple Public Status Pages

2017/10/11 by Leave a comment

Our public status report is a critical part of keeping your customers informed of your site and service status—which after all is one of the points of monitoring. Our status pages are customizable to your company, and support a custom domain so you can display your status at status.yourdomain.com, or whatever is most applicable to your business.

We have had a public status page as one of our key features for some time.  Now, we’re adding support for multiple status pages on one account. For instance, NodePing has a status report page for our websites at status.nodeping.com, and one specifically for our probe servers at probestatus.nodeping.com.  Business and Provider accounts can optionally set up an SSL cert for their status pages (contact support for info how).

To create a new status report, just log into your account , and go to the “Account Settings” tab, then the “Reporting” subtab. Click “Add new status report” and add as many checks as you want to your new status report.  

We hope you will find this feature just as useful as we do.  We also have several more enhancements for public status pages coming soon.  Let us know what you think at support@nodeping.com, by posting comments here, or by using our Contact Page.

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Probe server change [SG]

2017/10/11 by Leave a comment

The following probe server will be changing IP addresses on 2017/10/18:

Singapore (SG) – SG is changing from (103.25.202.111 / 2400:c980:0:2:48d:a4ff:fe01:1262) to (103.16.16.30 / 2001:df0:24f:214::10)

Please adjust your firewalls appropriately if you whitelist so your checks do not fail because of the probe IP address change.

An always current and updated list of all the IP addresses for our probe servers can be found in the FAQ

[UPDATE – 2017-10-18 11:45GMT-6] – IP change complete.

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Probe Server Change and Addition [FR,MX]

2017/09/11 by Leave a comment

The following probe server will be changing IP addresses on 2017/09/19:

Paris, France (FR) – FR is changing from (37.59.86.248 / 2001:41d0:a:7a50:5:5:9ab9:a412) to (195.154.167.97 / 2001:bc8:2327:110::10)

We’re also adding a new probe to the Latin America region on 2017/09/19:
Mexico City, Mexico (MX) – MX (138.204.171.109)

Please adjust your firewalls appropriately if you whitelist so your checks do not fail because of the probe IP address changes.

An always current and updated list of all the IP addresses for our probe servers can be found in the FAQ

[Update 2017-09-18] – the new probe planned for Mexico will not be added as planned.

[UPDATE – 2017-09-19 10:41GMT-6] – IP change complete.

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Probe Server Changes [AZ,CO]

2017/06/29 by 2 Comments

The following probe servers will be changing IP addresses on 2017/07/06:

Phoenix, Arizona (AZ) – AZ is changing from (162.253.177.250 / 2602:fff6:5:fba3::baa6) to (104.245.105.2 / 2602:ff97:0:2:225:90ff:fee5:b89)
Denver, Colorado (CO) – CO is changing from (162.211.64.212 / 2602:fff6:d:e301::10fe) to (173.248.161.42 / 2607:fc88:100:40::2)

Please adjust your firewalls appropriately if you whitelist so your checks do not fail because of the probe IP address changes.

An always current and updated list of all the IP addresses for our probe servers can be found in the FAQ

[UPDATE – 2017-07-06 10:30GMT-6] – IP changes complete.

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Probe Server Changes and Addition [IT,FR,TX,OR]

2017/05/11 by Leave a comment

The following probe servers will be changing IP addresses on 2017/05/18:

Milan, Italy (IT) – IT is changing from (95.141.35.64 / 2a02:29e0:1:232::2) to (185.93.183.12 / 2001:ac8:24::40)
Paris, France (FR) – FR is changing only ipv6 from (2001:41d0:d:12ac:1:1:1212:70c1) to (2001:41d0:a:7a50:5:5:9ab9:a412)
Dallas, Texas (TX) – US is changing from (104.200.142.50 / 2607:f7a0:2:0:ec4:7aff:fe15:dcce) to (45.58.61.34 / 2604:6600:2000:c::2)

We’re also adding a new server to the North America region on 2017/05/18:
Portland, Oregon (OR) – US (69.163.39.244 / 2605:ea00:1:1:d267:e5ff:fee7:51c)

We’re also removing one probe from our Latin America region:
Panama (PA) – PA (190.14.37.189)

Please adjust your firewalls appropriately if you whitelist so your checks do not fail because of the probe IP address changes.

An always current and updated list of all the IP addresses for our probe servers can be found in the FAQ

[UPDATE – 2017-05-18 11:30GMT-4] – IP changes and probe addition complete.

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Probe Server Changes – [PY,IT]

2017/03/27 by Leave a comment

The following probe servers will be changing IP addresses on 2017/04/04:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (PY) – USA is changing from (162.208.50.172 / 2607:2200:0:3701:0:8:0:10) to (154.16.159.242 / 2604:bf00:210:1d::2)
Milan, Italy (IT) – IT is changing from (194.14.179.117 / 2a00:dcc0:eda:89:14:179:4f75:4e2) to (95.141.35.64 / 2a02:29e0:1:232::2)

Please adjust your firewalls appropriately so your checks do not fail because of the probe IP address changes.

An always current and updated list of all the IP addresses for our probe servers can be found in the FAQ

[UPDATE – 2017-04-04 10:57GMT-4] – IP changes complete.

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Probe Server Changes – [CA,GA,IL,TX]

2017/02/22 by Leave a comment

The following probe servers will be changing IP addresses on 2017/03/01:

Los Angeles, California (CA) – USA is changing from 162.211.65.254 to 184.170.243.202.
Atlanta, Georgia (GA) – USA is changing from 192.30.32.170 to 66.71.251.162.
Chicago, Illinois (IL) – USA is changing from 162.211.66.130 to  104.128.57.130.
Dallas, Texas (TX) – USA is changing from 107.155.66.30 to 104.200.142.50.

Please adjust your firewalls appropriately so your checks do not fail because of the probe IP address changes.

An always current and updated list of all the IP addresses for our probe servers can be found in the FAQ

[UPDATE – 2017-03-01 10:50GMT-5] – IP changes complete.

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Diagnostic Tools

2017/02/02 by Leave a comment

“Why is my check failing?”

It isn’t always obvious what’s causing the failure when a check does ‘down’ and additional information about what our probes are experiencing can be helpful. For example, if your website is timing out, is it the web server, a DNS problem, or maybe packet loss on the network?

Our new diagnostic tools allow you to run several utilities on our probes and give visibility to what our probes are seeing to help you troubleshoot a failing service. These tools can be useful to narrow down where the failure is so you can get things fixed and services restored as quickly as possible.

Tools available:

  • Ping
  • Traceroute
  • MTR
  • Dig
  • Page Load (browser loading with page speed – HAR viewer)
  • Screenshot

More information about the tools and some troubleshooting advice can be found in our documentation.

You can find these tools on the “Diagnostic Tools” tab when you login to your NodePing account.  If you don’t yet have a NodePing account, you can create one and try out these tools with our 15-day, free uptime monitoring trial.

What other tools would be helpful on that page? Let us know in the comments.

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Probe Server Changes – [NC,UK]

2017/01/11 by Leave a comment

The following probe servers will be changing IP addresses on 2017/01/18:

North Carolina (NC) is changing from 104.225.1.179 in Cary to 64.187.224.66 in Asheville
England (UK)  will change from 146.185.21.51 in London to 194.187.248.8 in Manchester

Please adjust your firewalls appropriately so your checks do not fail because of the probe IP address changes.

An always current and updated list of all the IP addresses for our probe servers can be found in the FAQ

[UPDATE – 2017-01-17 11:18GMT-5] – IP changes complete.

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