I use pingdom, it runs on remote servers where locally run systems will fail if ...

_bbks on Nov 1, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What do you use to monitor your websites?

I use pingdom, it runs on remote servers where locally run systems will fail if your datacenter loses its internet connection etc. Can't fault it but ignore the response times, I think the pingdom servers are just slow ;)