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Guide how to configure API monitoring/text analysis

This guide details configuring API monitoring and text analysis, from setting check intervals and customizing options like logging and sharing statistics to defining content policies and handling HTTP methods. It also covers managing headers, selecting monitoring locations, and setting up notifications, enabling comprehensive monitoring and accurate analysis of API responses.

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Tracking for Projector-Camera Systems

When you're looking for a Tracking for Projector-Camera Systems, there are many factors to consider. In this comprehensive guide, we will break down the important features and specs so that you can make an informed purchase. Plus, we'll provide some tips on how to use your Tracking for Projector-Camera Systems once you've bought it!

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Guide how to configurate Certificate expiration

Set up Certificate Expiration Monitoring to receive timely alerts before your SSL/TLS certificate expires. Simply select the monitoring type, enter your Domain/IP, configure check intervals, and choose notification preferences to be alerted one month, 7 days, and 3 days before expiration, or daily if already expired. This ensures you stay proactive about certificate renewals and avoid downtime.

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Put your website content in your control

HostTracker provides a full, digestible look at your website content. Our service will track any changes on your favorite webpages without a need to visit them frequently. In this article you'll get to know about:

- Why is it so important;
-​ Instrument Settings.

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Some secrets of content monitoring

HostTracker provides the best practice for monitoring both content changes and website availability. HostTracker’s tools allow you to check whether your webpage loads correctly and test it for errors as frequently as you’d like. Additionally, you'll know: Why do we need that? Service Settings; Content Check Methods.

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Database Monitoring with HostTracker

We’re happy to introduce our newest monitoring feature - Database Check – that is easy to use, crystal-clear to understand and designed to get you through your website ‘critical hours’ as smoothly as possible.

Domains: do they have afterlife?

Every year, millions of domain names are lost. What happens after domain expires? How long will your domain wait for you before someone grabs it? And how to omit this?  

Monitor your domains for any changes. You can keep an eye on the state of available domains which you like, but don’t forget your own ones too. There is a wide variety of services, like HostTracker, which provide an easy, efficient way to track any changes of domain’s state.

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Host Tracker: Site drop notification for business only

No one person is capable of monitoring the performance of a site 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Moreover, a resource may be unavailable in another region and there is no way for a manager to track this. And it is to solve these problems that the HostTracker service, which monitors the availability of the site, is designed to do just that. It detects site drops, analyses the problem and sends an alert to the administrator or resource management...

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Escalations. Typical scenarios

As many people know, HostTracker is a sites efficiency monitoring system. One of its main functions is to notify the user of any problems promptly. The efficiency of the notifications and the acceptable level of “detalization” are important. If you send alerts at each “sneeze”, the person will not find the important information in this flow...

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Domain Expiration Monitoring

HostTracker gives you a unique opportunity to take an ultimate control over your website and increase its performance to new levels. Our service features lots of different handy tools that will let you monitor your website activity constantly and be the very first to know when you need to take actions...

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Host-Tracker under Windows Azure

Those, who actively involved with the Web, should know HostTracker, a company from Ukraine, which has been supporting one of the leading global web monitoring services since 2004. Its goal is to monitor site health and accessibility in near-real-time access. Using alert message system, HostTracker allows to reduce downtimes, to improve quality of service for users, to quickly localize troubles...

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HostTracker — Sites Monitoring Service

Every site owner knows how important it is to have your resource always operative and available for visitors. Periodical site unavailability has a bad influence even at its positions in the search engines (as Google representatives have repeatedly claimed), not to mention the fact that visitors are extremely displeased by such “accidents”...

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How to get alerts from HostTracker

In today’s high speed, high pressure and high-stress world it’s utterly important to keep up with things going on with your website. Being well-informed means being in the know of how speedily the monitoring service can contact you - as how will you save the world if you don’t know what’s happened in time?

 
Basic Website Check

Basic website check uses HTTP web protocol, which is actually used by anyweone browsing the web. This kind of check allows one to create a monitoring task, to check a website on a regular basis just as a human customer would do. Although the web nowadays is pretty complicated - and so possibly could be a monitoring task - general features are pretty simple to set up.

What could we check by using the cloud services? Part 2

  In the beginning, HostTracker company was founded on the basis of a simple website to provide free customer services. Though, a few years later, this startup developed a wide variety of tools serving to solve various problems, including different network issues. In a series of publications, we have decided to describe thoroughly all the features of our service, also to share our experience in the development of such projects with you and to mention interesting challenges that we faced. 

Recheck strategies to confirm site newly obtained status

HostTracker monitoring system checks sites according to given policy in monitoring configuration. The detected status, UP or DOWN, could be local or temporal, and, therefore, is the subject for verification and confirmation before the next action, an alert or uptime statistics update, takes place. 

Examples of errors such as downtime due to new deployment and configuration propagation (DNS unavailability), local site blacklistting, incompatible environment of checking agent to server technologies, are verified with rechecks from locations of configured geo location.

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Guide how to configure Russian BL check

Monitor the appearance of a domain or IP in the Russian Black List with Russian BL check. Simply select “Russian BL check” as the monitoring type, enter the URL/Domain/IP. Configure options like prefix matching and warning handling to customize monitoring, and choose notification preferences to receive alerts before or after any listing. This setup ensures you’re promptly informed of blacklisting issues affecting your domain.

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Monitoring server performance with HostTracker

HostTracker offers numerous simple-yet-powerful instruments to keep your website running smoothly. That implies it delivers deep insight into server resource parameters such as CPU, RAM and HDD. Read on to find out more about “Monitor CPU, RAM, HDD” tool, and why you should adopt it.

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SSL Certificate Monitoring

For those seeking a possibility to keep SSL certificates always up-to-date and have a constant watch over their expiry dates, there is a Certificate expiration function. Read more: How to activate a Certificate expiration function?

 

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Guide how to configurate Web risk

Check URLs against Google's constantly updated lists of unsafe web resources. Unsafe web resources include social engineering sites, such as phishing and deceptive sites, and sites that host malware or unwanted software. 

 
Website content check

Is your site intact, do your customers see all the information you might want them to? There is a way to automatically check the content of the page, particular words, phrases or even more complicated entities. This helps to make sure that the website is not only available, but works exactly as planned.