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Monitor refers to a resource like a server, website, web application instance or URL that is monitored for uptime and performance. Site24x7 supports many types of monitors, each of these have various performance metrics. For example,a server monitor has metrics like CPU, memory, disk utilization, network usage, eventlogs, and process metrics. Likewise a website monitor has performance metrics like first byte time, last byte time, DNS time, total response time, and uptime status.

List of Basic Monitors:

Website

• Website (HTTP/HTTPS)
• WebSocket Endpoint
• DNS Server, NTP Server, Ping Check, FTP Server, or SMTP Server
• Any TCP/IP Port
• SSL/TLS Certificate Expiry Check
• Domain Expiry Monitoring
• REST API or SOAP Web Service Endpoint
• REST API Transaction
• Real-time Blacklist Check (10 hostnames/IP address)
• Brand Reputation Check (10 URLs)

Server (Charged based on servers and not individual metrics)

• Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OS X Servers (agent-based)

Plugins

One Plugin is free per server monitor. Beyond that, each Plugin is considered one Basic monitor.

• Select from over 50+ out-of-the-box plugins
• Write custom Plugins

Containers and orchestration tools

• Docker host
• Docker Container (5 Containers)
• Kubernetes cluster/node
• Kubernetes Pod (5 Pods)

Application Services

• Microsoft IIS
• Windows Server Backups
• Cron Monitoring (25 Cron Jobs)
• Hadoop (Each NameNode, DataNode, or YARN)

Virtulization and HCI

• VMware (Each VMware VM, ESX/ESXi Host, Datastore or Resource Pool)
• Nutanix HCI (Each Nutanix VM, Cluster or Host)

Uptime

Heartbeat Monitoring (25 URL Endpoints)

Cloud (AWS, Azure and GCP)

• Each instance of a supported cloud service is considered a basic monitor.

StatsD Metrics

• Upto 500 metrics without threshold checks can be availed for free. Beyond that, 25 metrics (with or without threshold checks) will be considered as one basic monitor.

List of Advanced Monitors:

Website

• Web Transaction (Browser) Monitor (monitor multi-step web transactions in your service)
• Web Page Speed (Browser)
• Website Defacement
• Mail Delivery monitoring (basic POP and SMTP port monitoring is a Basic monitor).
• FTP Transfer Monitoring

Microsoft Applications

• Microsoft SharePoint, BizTalk, Active Directory, Failover Cluster, Hyper-V, SQL and Exchange Server

VDI

VMware Horizon

Applications (APM Insight)

JVM, .NET, PHP, Ruby on Rails, or Node.js application instance in Site24x7 APM Insight (a.k.a Application Performance Monitoring).

The first plugin added for a server monitor is free. After that, each plugin monitor is considered as a basic monitor. Each plugin can have up to 25 attributes.

For example, if you have chosen the Starter Plan, you will be able to monitor 10 servers and 1 plugin for each one of these servers. To add more, buy a basic monitor add on which will let you monitor 10 plugins/month.

Upto 500 metrics without threshold checks can be availed for free. Beyond that, 25 metrics (with or without threshold checks) will be considered as one basic monitor.

Example pricing:

• 500 metrics without threshold checks = free
• 500 metrics with 100 threshold checks = 4 basic monitors
• 1000 metrics with 500 threshold checks = 40 basic monitors

An application is any web application, and it is counted differently in different languages that the agent supports.

• In Java, each JVM instance is considered as an application
• In .NET, each IIS server instance is considered as an application
• In Ruby on Rails, each rails server instance is considered as an application
• In PHP, each PHP server instance is considered as an application

• Website Monitoring: Polling interval starts at 30 seconds for primary location. Secondary location poll frequency is 30 minutes, by default. Learn more about our polling logic.
• Server Monitoring: Polling interval of 1 minute and 5 minutes, with a heartbeat check done every 1 minute
• Application Performance Monitoring (APM): Polling interval starts at 1 minute

Site24x7 stores the log data collected for log management for a maximum period of 30 days. If you want to increase the retention period, please contact support@site24x7.com.

Voice Calls or SMS alerts notify you instantly of a downtime. Alert Credits are used for these. Alert Credits will be added to your account month on month. Any unused credit will not be carried over to the next month. Please note that you can receive free email alerts and push notifications on our mobile apps.

Charges for additional alert credits:

• Approximately $0.3 per Alert Credit for Starter and Free plans.
• Approximately $0.2 per Alert Credit for all the other plans.

We offer the following purchase options:

Credit Cards

This is our preferred mode of payment, as credit cards are handled automatically. We accept MasterCard, Visa, Discover, AmEx, JCB, and Diners Club. Payment can be monthly/yearly and can be made using your Site24x7 account.

Paypal Account

If you have a PayPal account, you can use it to purchase Site24x7 subscription. All you need to do is select PayPal in the Payment Options while upgrading your account. You can use your Site24x7 account credentials and make the payment.

Purchase Order

You need to send us a Purchase Order (PO) or an email with your Site24x7 account login ID, the total amount you would like to purchase, your company name & billing address. You will then be invoiced for your purchase. Upon receiving the invoice, you may pay us within 30 days either through credit card, bank cheque or wire transfer.

To upgrade:

1. Sign in to Site24x7. Click Admin > Subscriptions.
2. Click Upgrade Subscription listed under Zoho Stores or Upgrade next to your subscription plan name.

Please contact to know more.

Submit a ticket at https://www.site24x7.com/contact-support.html

Contact sales@site24x7.com or reach us on phone at US: +1 408 352 9117 | UK: +44 203 564 7893 | Aus: +61 280 662 895 with your requirements to get a price quote.

More than just Website Monitoring: The key value proposition of Site24x7 - a simple-to-use solution that gives you a complete view on the performance and availability of your entire IT infrastructure. In a single portal, you get to monitor the availability and performance of your website, server, network, VMs, applications and much more. With Site24x7, you can give the key performance boost required for your digital business.

Flexible Solution: Site24x7 has the most flexible configuration settings needed to tweak your monitoring need. POST, GET, DELETE, PUT requests, dependent resources support to reduce alert flood, using own name servers, executing web hooks, setting threshold profiles, alert profiles, notification profiles in many websites in one go and a powerful REST API are some of the many flexible options available.

Superior Reporting - With Site24x7, you can gather performance data of resources monitored and generate numerous reports, which can be viewed on a custom-defined hourly, weekly, monthly, or yearly basis. Obtain exhaustive reports, which assist you to identify the trends over a stipulated period of time. You also have the option of exporting these reports in CSV, PDF, and email formats for your internal purposes.

You need one advanced monitor license to monitor a VMware Horizon. However, every individual session that you monitor will require a basic monitor license. You must monitor a minimum of 25 sessions using a VMware Horizon monitor. Hence, monitoring a VMware Horizon will consume an advanced monitor license along with 25 basic monitor licenses.

You can receive free alerts for a certain number of search queries based on your add-on size. To create alerts for more search queries beyond the free limit, they are priced as one basic monitor for 10 search queries.