[aklug] Re: Alaskan external monitoring

That is pretty cool Royce.

Have you considered AWS free tier? Free for a year and easy to move to a
new account after it expires.
On Sep 19, 2015 8:23 AM, "Royce Williams" <royce@tycho.org> wrote:

> I'm spinning up a cooperative effort to provide free, independent
> external monitoring and trending for Alaskan geeks.
>
> http://akmon.techsolvency.com/
>
> The goal is to capture baseline health for Alaskan shared
> infrastructure and core external services. I want to enable everyone
> to quickly and definitively resolve the recurring questions of "Is it
> working from outside our network?" and the "Is it our local upstream?"
>
> It's currently running out of a Digital Ocean VPS in SFO, so the
> latency has many upstream dependencies -- but it's independent from
> any specific Alaskan infrastructure. I may try to set up a Seattle
> instance if I can find hyper-affordable VPS hosting there.
>
> It's currently just SmokePing, but other stuff can be added pretty easily.
>
> Suggestions welcome, especially hosts to add.
>
> I'm not sure why some of the smokeping HTTPS polling isn't working.
> It's using the EchoPingHttps poller. Anybody have any experience in
> this area?
>
> Royce
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Received on Sat Sep 19 09:14:16 2015