Ask HN: Best uptime monitor?

2 points by evertonfuller ↗ HN
Looking around for uptime monitoring systems. What do you guys use? Thanks!

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I made my own service with a free Google App Engine instance, using this script as a base → https://github.com/danawoodman/python-uptime-monitor mainly to use the SMS gateway api from my provider.

Simple enough, write the views and use the cron service from GAE, for myself 2secods it's more than efficient.

I will never hit any cost on GAE just monitoring 12 servers every 2 seconds.

You will get more capabilities, writing your own uptime script and personally I will add: it's more fun :-)