Updated 12 Jan 2018 ** This page will be mothballed, possibly one more pass to cleanup/prune links, but no more updates ** Another work-in-process - a collection of publicly accessible Cloud provider/platform/service status dashboards and monitors. This information may be helpful during evaluation of Cloud Service Providers. Slowly collecting and classifying these, adds/changes/suggestions more than welcome!
Planning/Cleanup:
Aug 2017 - Jan 2018 Finds/Changes (complete
Revision History at end)
Cloud Monitor Mobile Apps
Website/Multiple Cloud Monitors
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Who | URL | Notes |
Ideara Cloud Monitor | Uptime Cloud Monitor provides essential monitoring capabilities, giving you everything you need to identify and react to cloud infrastructure issues – from user experience all the way to the database. Understanding the complex nature of today’s IT infrastructures, we include out-of-the-box and fully customizable dashboards, alerts, and management reports to match the needs of your particular environment | Lots of Free Tools (registration Req'd) |
Microsoft | Microsoft Office 365 Web Services and APIs "Whether you want to incorporate the richness of Office 365 data into your app, or create a custom experience within Office 365 itself, or use custom reports to keep your Office 365 Enterprise environment running smoothly, you can use the developer features in Office 365 to achieve your goals." | O365 API Catalog |
Uptime Robot | Lots of Developer tools, API's, integrations Uptime Robot APIs "Web Hooks" | Active product, check Blog for new features |
Cachet | Open Source status page system From https://alt-three.com: Cachet is a beautiful open source status page system, used by large household names, airports, schools and businesses. List your services componentsLog incidents Apply custom CSS to the status page Markdown support for incident messages JSON API Translated into eleven languages Metrics Cross-database support: MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite Subscriber notifications via Email Two factor authentication, with Google Authenticator | Looks great Demo Here Integrations Here |
UltraTools | "UltraTools is the most comprehensive set of domain, DNS, Email, WHOIS and IP tools brought to you by UltraDNS, the industry leader in DNS management." |
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Dotcom-Monitor | Network, Server and application Monitoring and Test tools. Test from multiple locations, using multiple browsers, mobile and more... https://www.dotcom-tools.com |
Lots of performance and test tools |
Pingdom | Website Monitoring and Tools http://tools.pingdom.com/ Monitor one for Free https://www.pingdom.com/free/ |
DNS, page speed, ping/traceroute ... |
Panopta | Internal/External + Monitoring Network http://www.panopta.com/ |
DIY (Hey! where's status?) |
Stashboard | Open source status dashboard for cloud apps http://www.stashboard.org/ |
DIY |
Statuspage.io | Make your own Status page ... in the cloud Service Providers using statuspage.io: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22Powered+by+StatusPage.io%22 |
DIY (hosted) |
AppDynamics | App Performance Monitoring http://www.appdynamics.com/product-overview | |
Copper.io | Interesting Toolset and services - Dashboards, monitoring, etc see statushub.io/tour | |
Goolge Cloud Trace | *New* Haven't tried | |
Status.io | Hosted System Status Pages Service Providers using status.io: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22Powered+by+Status.io%22 |
DIY (hosted) |
cloudstats.me | "A Complete Linux & Windows Server Monitoring Solution for Your Business" | |
Exoprise | Interesting set of tools and services | |
Hyperglance | Hyperglance enables users of all levels with the ability to easily visualize, analyze, and securely control relevant IT assets from otherwise disparate, or hard to map, platforms, such as public cloud and private cloud. | |
AWS CloudWatch | Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service for AWS cloud resources and the applications you run on AWS. | |
Thousandeyes | Monitors internal and External Network Performance | |
StatusCast | Build your own application status page | |
New Relic | Monitor real-user interactions to identify errors, crashes, and drop-offs in optimal user flows. | Analytics |
Site24x7 | Quite a few network, developer and validation/reliability test tools @ http://www.site24x7.com/tools.html | |
PagerDuty | Enterprise-grade incident management that helps orchestrate the ideal response to create better customer, employee, and business value. | |
Server Density | Server monitoring that doesn’t suck. Helping 1000+ customers monitor 80,000+ servers collecting 2+ billion metrics daily Also: api, slackbot, mobile apps and Apple TV app |
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DataDog | Monitoring that tracks your dynamic infrastructure. Datadog seamlessly aggregates metrics and events across the full devops stack Features Alters, API, Dashboards ... | |
CloudHealth Technologies | The CloudHealth, cloud analytics platform is designed to collect, integrate, consolidate and analyze, the massive amount of data from cloud providers and the data services that organizations use today. We take that data and give customers the ability to develop business models, analyze trends, and report historically and project future trends. | |
LogicMonitor | SaaS-based Performance Monitoring Platform SaaS-based performance monitoring for modern IT infrastructure. Monitor on-premise, cloud and hybrid datacenters from a single platform | |
DynaTrace | Monitoring redefined Every user, every app, everywhere. AI powered, full stack, automated. | |
Keymetrics.io | A complete toolset to harden and monitor your Node.js application2 minutes to integrate, no configuration needed Keymetrics is built on top of PM2A performance application manager for Node.JS apps | |
CA UIM for Cloud Monitoring | CA Unified Infrastructure Management (CA UIM) for cloud monitoring enables you to proactively and efficiently optimize performance across private or public cloud environments. It’s a comprehensive, unified solution that provides on-premises infrastructure and cloud monitoring through a single view and backend architecture. For customers, this translates into faster mean time to repair and cloud adoption as well as the reduced cost and complexity of managing multiple monitoring tools. | |
LogicMonitor | SaaS-based Cloud Monitoring Monitor AWS with Cloudwatch, VMware, Microsoft Azure, and other cloud services and infrastructure together on the platform built for the world's best IT | |
Zenoss hybrid IT monitoring platform | The Zenoss hybrid IT monitoring platform provides complete visibility into physical, virtual and cloud environments. | |
BMC TrueSight Pulse | Ensure end user experience from the browser to the backend through real-time monitoring of web applications and infrastructure. See issues your current application and infrastructure monitoring solution is missing. Alert and notify on end user, application and infrastructure metrics every second. Get better visibility to AWS than AWS Cloudwatch provides. | |
Idera Uptime Cloud Monitor | Uptime Cloud Monitor provides essential monitoring capabilities, giving you everything you need to identify and react to cloud infrastructure issues – from user experience all the way to the database. Understanding the complex nature of today’s IT infrastructures, we include out-of-the-box and fully customizable dashboards, alerts, and management reports to match the needs of your particular environment. | |
Monitis | Monitor your website and the whole infrastructure behind it Applications, websites, servers, and more. Mission critical monitoring - FREE or Tailored plans. | |
PRTR Monitors from Paessler | PRTG monitors all systems, devices, traffic and applications of your IT infrastructure using these technologies:
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Articles/OddsNends
Who | URL | Notes |
Article: Find Cloud Providers you can Trust |
Good article by Andrew Froehlich on http://www.21cit.com/ | |
Article: Evolution of a Status Page |
Another good article by Marshall Jones of balancedpayments.com | |
Article: Cloud App Monitoring for Android |
Interesting list of 4-5 Mobile apps | |
Special | Off Topic | |
Frixo.com | A road travel reporting website, that provides users with the most up-to-date road traffic information. Data is updated every 5 minutes using sensors placed on motorways and common A / B roads. |
Internet/Network Status
Who | URL | Notes |
Internet Traffic Report (Oldie! Goodie?) |
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/ | |
Keynote Internet Health | http://www.internethealthreport.com/ | |
AT&T Global IP Network | http://ipnetwork.bgtmo.ip.att.net/pws/index.html |
Revision History
1 Nov 2012 - Initial random list from searches, drive-by bookmarking & Gartner Public IaaS providers 2012 MQ6 Nov 2012 - Stumbled on a few more & added public dashboards for Co's listed on Gartner Managed Hosting 2012 MQ
11 Jan 2013 - Sifted thru Sync/Backup Services on www.cloudstoragefinder.com (disappointing - 2 of 10 had service stats)
31 Jan 2013 - Added one more while searching for whitelabel-able storage services - Livedrive
18 Feb 2013 - Catchup/Cleanup bookmarks, promoted cloud harmony to top of list, interesting developments there
7 Mar 2013 - Stumbled upon "13 Cloud Service Providers to watch in 2013" - Impressive, most had dashboards!
13 Mar 3013 - Forgot DocuSign
08 May 2013 - Added Zapier Status Dashboard (good one), AWS Trusted Advisor Dashboard (informational)
04 July 2013 - Some cleanup. Added Articles and DIY Tools section. Dashboards for CloudNordic, another from DotCloud, Adobe Creative Cloud, Soundcloud, Laughingsquid, and Balanced
26 Sep 2013 - Added Recent outages section (I pick up many of these with in related alerts), we'll see how these work. Added intermedia.net, cloud.typography, Acquia, mailchimp, MODXCloud, downrightnow and cloutage.org. Went thru 1-10 of Top 100 Providers, 6 out of 10 had public status/dashboards - Nothing apparent on Terremark (Verizon), SoftLayers (IBM), SAP or Oracle sites. Enough for now, this page need a lot of work
11 Nov 2013 - Little page cleanup - still needs much more. Added Panopta, Netcraft and Downdetector (pretty cool) tools, Status pages for Homestead, Netsuite, Linode, iWeb, workday, leaseweb and rockstar games. Went though 11-20 of Top 100 Providers - 5 of the 10 reviewed had public status/dashboards.
11 December - Added Adobe Services, Acquia Cloud, healthcare.gov (unofficial) and a couple of outages - sf.com & Microsoft most notably. Reviewed 21-30 of Top 100 Providers - 2 of 10 had public dashboards: iomart.com, intermedia.net
14 Jan 2014 - Couple of Outages: Dropbox, Yahoo mail, AWS and best of 2013 articles. Added dashboard/status links for earthlink, Yahoo SM Biz and API, Parse.com, LayeredTech. Stumbled upon Cloudsleuth & AppDynanmics - general purpose. Worked through 31-40 of Top 100 Providers - added 1.
08 Feb 2014 - Picked up one outage (gmail), dropped oldest outages and added article about Mobile Monitoring apps (droid). Weeded thru 41-50 of Top 100 CSPs, added Cobweb
07 March 2014 - Added QT Digia, MS SkyDrive is now OneDrive and Pivotal WS. Worked thru 51-60 of Top 100 CSPs, added ZERO! One Outage - Google AGAIN!
05 April 2014 - Added Hootsuite, Egnyte, Chef, Ellie Mae, netstream. 7 Outages, including Google's monthly entry. Archived old outages (noodling on how to link into this mess). Went thru 61-70 of Top 100 CSPs added ONE! Moved older Outages to historical sub-page
12 May 2014 - Added Copper.io toolset and cloudsigma, DigitalOcean, Mailgun, BroadSoft, Kickstarter, Statuspage.io, Mixturecloud, Gandi, Redislabs, RapidSwitch & Ariba. Worked through 71-80 of Top 100 CSPs, added 2.
05 June 2014 - Added Xbox Live, Qualys, Boomi (Dell), SNT Cloud, GFI Cloud. Outages from Google (drive), Joyent, Adobe and Rackspace. Older outages rolled off to history
05 October 2014 - Outages - Azure,
October 2014 - Older outages rolled off to history, quite a few outages picked up (added), Microsoft Azure Dashboard adds 'Personalization', HP Adds RSS Feed, Added LightSpeed, Clevercloud. Worked through 76-100 of Top 100 CSPs, added CentraStage.
December 2014 - Outages: Microsoft (Azure again), Amazon, Rackspace and Limestone - Limestone status page
February 2015 - Added https://www.dotcom-tools.com as very first "Tool of the Month". Status pages for Cloud16, Synaq, Appian and Smartthings. Outages: Verizon planned outage, XBox Live, Playstation. Older outages rolled off to history
April 2015 - Outage Analyzer Tool. 2014 Outages moved to Archive. Outages: Xbox Live (of course), Amazon UK, Google Compute Engine & Apple. Added Google Compute Engine status, AVG Cloud Services Status. Began cleanup by grouping big service providers - MUCH more to do in terms of cleanup
June 2015 - Added SAP, Kaysea, Digi, Google: Android CloudConsole, Synaq, LIFX, BinaryLane, status,io, statuspage.io, Freelance Computers, Dediserv, cumulus Cloud (private), Centrify, Curcial (AU) and Catalyst (NZ). Outages: Outlook, iCloud, Starbucks, Bloomberg, iTunes and (of course) XBox Live!A dded Tools: Status.io (hosted status pages)
August 2015 - LOTS of outages added (June - Aug 1 basically). Archived Jan-Feb outages, Added tool cloudstat.me, Exoprise, and Dashboards for Dimensiondata, Prestashop, & Microsoft intune. Also relevant article on MS Mobile status. [I know page is a mess, but summers are busy!]
August Interesting Finds
Exoprise Cloud Health Report - "Cloud Performance Trends Measured by the Crowd"
Cloudstats.me - Monitor Servers, URLs and more. Interesting
Status.io - Hosted System Status Pages - Create your own!
Outage Analyzer - Interesting monitor: "Outage Analyzer displays internet service outages as they occur around the world."
Dotcom-Monitor - VERY Interesting set of network, server and application performance, monitoring and test tools @ www.dotcom-tools.com! Test from 20+ locations around the world, multiple browsers ... even mobile.
October 2015 - Outages: AWS (and friends), Skype, Google, Nest, Google, Facebook, e, . Status pages added: Skype, Adobe Document Cloud, Progress Software, Lifesizecloud and Nest! Archived Outages older than 6 months - See the running collection
October Interesting Finds
- Cedexis Radar Live - "Radar Live shows a global view of anomalies, based on data from the Cedexis Radar Community".
- DYN Internet Intelligence looks interesting.
- Dotcom-Monitor - VERY Interesting set of network, server and application performance, monitoring and test tools @ www.dotcom-tools.com! Test from 20+ locations around the world, multiple browsers ... even mobile.
December 2015
- UltraTools.com from UltraDNS. Interesting set of DNS and Net tools, Including monitoring and health reports
- Microsoft Azure Resource Health - Oct 2015 Announcement
- Added UltraDNS (Neustar) Status Dashboard
- Sonic Foundry Service Status page added to list
- Outages caught-up in alerts included: UltraDNS, Telecity (multiple), MS Azure and Office365 (multiple) and Google Cloud
- June & July Outages Archived
January-February 2016 Changes & Interesting Finds/Tools
- Tool of the Month: StatusCast.com: Build your own Application Status Page (I did: https://tpventures.statuscast.com/. Still playing, but looks good/easy)
- PackageCloud.io - Status Page added. Interesting: Package Parking!
- Added Hyperglance - Graphical multi-cloud resource visibility
- Status page for Scorm Cloud (Hosted e-learning) added
- Stumbled upon SafeHouse Cloud's Status Page
- IamCloud's Status Site Added
- Added FileBay's Status Page
- Cloudstatusapp Mobile app monitors key cloud providers
- JFrog and Artifactoryonline Status page added
- Netsuite's OpenAir Cloud PSA Service Status added
- SherWeb's Network Status Link added
- Atlassian.com - Status Page
- RightScale's System Status Page added
- Added AWS CloudWatch to Tools Section
- OVH Network Status page and Tools
- ThousandEyes Network Monitor tools added
- CloudHarmony added Network Testing
- Twitter Developer Status - API and Service Status
- isitup.org - added, but ????
- BinaryCanary website Monitor
- UpTime Robot website Monitor
- New Relic - a bit more Analytical, but added as tool
- SiteUpTime Website Monitor
- Site24x7 Website Monitor and Tools
- PagerDuty.com - Incident Management tools
April - July 2016 Finds/Changes
- Find of the Month: Server Density: "Server Monitoring that doesn't suck" (Also inspiration for Cloud monitor App category on this page)
- Related/Notable
- StatusPage.io Acquisition - July 2016
StatusPage blog: Statuspage.io acquired by Atlassian,
Atlassian blog entry: Atlassian Acquires Statuspage - April 2016: Microsoft Intune Service Health is now available in the Office 365 portal
- Nova IT Status page added
- Trello's new Status Page added to the list
- Kaseya's Cloud Operaton Dashboard added
- 123-reg System Status Page
- Added LastPass Twitter status page
- Added Gatenby Services Status (includes staff coffee consumption)
- Server Density added:
- Monitoring Dashboards to tools category
- Cloud Status App (IOS) added to new mobile app
Aug - Dec 2016 Finds/Changes
- Find of the Month: Interesting perspective of October 2016 DDoS Attack by StatusPage.IO: Looking Back On The Largest DDoS In History
- Related/Notable
- Microsoft Office 365 Dashboards
- New Admin center w/ Service Health Dashboard, Sept 2016.
Roll out began in Dec 2016, still private (tenants only). - New Service Assurance Dashboard, Aug 2016
Also private (subscribers) @ https://protection.office.com/ - Mobile Apps
- Google's Cloud Console App (android and ios)
- Website/Multiple Cloud Monitors
- aussieoutages.com (downdetector.com)
- Statusgator - Monitors Status Pages of Hundreds of Cloud Services
- Service Status Dashboards
- ArcGIS Online Health Dash Board added
- Visma Cloud Accounting Status Dashboard
- HipChat Status Page
- WD MyCloud Status Page
- DIY/Tools
- Datadog - Monitoring as a Service. Looks really good!
- CloudHealth Technologies - ITSM for the Cloud
- LogicMonitor - SaaS-based Performance Monitoring Platform
- DynaTrace - Digital performance management solutions
Jan - Mar 2017 Finds/Changes
Find of the Month: CloudStatus (cloudstatus.eu). Not sure how I missed these guys! VERY nice multi-cloud status dashboard. Monitors, alerts, nice monthly reports (sample here), histories, integrations and more.
- Related/Notable
- Microsoft Office 365's new Service health dashboard, March 2017 GA
- Mobile Apps
- RaspPi Check (not cloud monitor, but useful!) - on Google Play
- Website/Multiple Cloud Monitors
- CloudStatus.eu
- Akamai Realtime Web Monitor
- Outage.report - Lots of incidents
- Service Status Dashboards
- ServiceBase's Status Page
- Sophos System Status
- Elastic Cloud Status Page
- Amazon GovCloud Status
- Pessidium Cloud Status
- TP-Link System Status Report Page
- PrestaShop System Status Site
- GOV.UK Performance Data for Government services (some cloud)
- GoDaddy System Status
- DIY/Tools/Platforms
- CA UIM for Cloud Monitoring
- LogicMonitor SaaS-based Cloud Monitoring
- Zenoss hybrid IT monitoring platform
- BMC TrueSight Pulse - Realtime Monitoring-as-a-service
- Idera Uptime Cloud Monitor - Infrastructure Monitoring-as-a-service
- Monitis - Monitors website and backend apps, servers, etc
- Keymetrics.io toolset to harden and monitor Node.js
- PRTR Monitors from Paessler
- Find of the Month: Cachet Open Source Status Page System
But ... some interesting adds this go-round: Threatwatch & Cloud Spectator - Related/Notable
- Microsoft Azure Service Health Dashboard
- MS blog Announcement
- Microsoft Azure Service Health Feature Delivers Cloud Status Updates, eWeek, July 2017
- Article: IT Monitoring in a Hybrid Cloud World, Virtualization & Cloud Review, May 2017
- Mobile Apps
- Website/Multiple Cloud Monitors
- Office365Monitor Added
- Added StatusBeacon
- Cloud Spectator Added - a lot here
- Nextgov's Threatwatch - interesting map of breaches
- Service Status Dashboards
- Azure Service Heath Dashboard (preview)
- Fastly Service Status
- SAP Cloud Trust Center (Beta) - Service Status for SAP Cloud Products
- DIY/Tools/Platforms
- Cachet open source status page system
- Added Uptime Robot here too - Web Hooks, API and more
- Microsoft Office 365 Web Services and APIs
- Ideara Cloud Monitor