The Alert Me First interface gives you a choice of conventional top-level selections--which devices to monitor, who to alert and so on. The device portion shows an overview status and a link to more details. As we monitored devices, the detail status displayed green for good connections, yellow for warnings and red for failures.
Alert Me First reports summary activity in daily increments, displaying minimum/maximum/average response times and availability percentages on a per-day basis, as well as overall for up to 30 days. The detail of the entire day's monitoring probes are linked to this summary and displayed graphically as a horizontal line graph.
Alert Me First. Alert Me First, (403) 399-4318. www.alertmefirst.com
The 1stMonitor console is simplicity itself. The entire Web interface is a single page where configuration amounts to specifying a URL, how often you want the service to check on its availability and where to send an e-mail alert. The online status indicators are green (OK) after a successful page download, yellow (warning) when the page down fails, and red (critical) when contact with the server fails or the specified "keyword" isn't found. That's it for the online Web site. We were in and out of there in less than 10 minutes.
This Estonia-based one-location, one-URL monitoring service is as simple and cheap as they come. If all you need to know is whether your site is up or down, this is the service for you.
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