Comments on: Major S3 and AWS outage leaves us in the dark in more ways than one http://www.jamesmurty.com/2008/02/16/major-s3-and-aws-outage-leaves-us-in-the-dark-in-more-ways-than-one/ Contemplating the brave new present Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:26:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: James Murty http://www.jamesmurty.com/2008/02/16/major-s3-and-aws-outage-leaves-us-in-the-dark-in-more-ways-than-one/#comment-3 James Murty Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:28:19 +0000 http://www.jamesmurty.com/2008/02/16/major-s3-and-aws-outage-leaves-us-in-the-dark-in-more-ways-than-one/#comment-3 Yes, there are a number of apps that you could use to monitor web services like S3. Nagios would be a good example [http://www.nagios.org/]. Such monitoring would let you know if the service was not responding to requests, but it wouldn't give you any insight into what was wrong or what the service-provider was doing about it. It also requires that you configure, manage and run an application to monitor the service – which is a burden that Amazon shouldn't impose on its users. Yes, there are a number of apps that you could use to monitor web services like S3. Nagios would be a good example [http://www.nagios.org/].

Such monitoring would let you know if the service was not responding to requests, but it wouldn’t give you any insight into what was wrong or what the service-provider was doing about it. It also requires that you configure, manage and run an application to monitor the service – which is a burden that Amazon shouldn’t impose on its users.

]]> By: chris.mylonas http://www.jamesmurty.com/2008/02/16/major-s3-and-aws-outage-leaves-us-in-the-dark-in-more-ways-than-one/#comment-2 chris.mylonas Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:44:56 +0000 http://www.jamesmurty.com/2008/02/16/major-s3-and-aws-outage-leaves-us-in-the-dark-in-more-ways-than-one/#comment-2 JM, Are there any packages available to do monitoring of web services - a kind of heartbeat [http://www.linux-ha.org] for web services? CM JM,
Are there any packages available to do monitoring of web services - a kind of heartbeat [http://www.linux-ha.org] for web services?
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