HTTP and HTTPS Monitor
Verify if a web server can accept incoming sessions with an HTTP and HTTPS monitoring tool
Ensure web servers are functioning properly with an HTTP monitor and HTTPS monitor
Making sure web servers are working as expected—and there aren’t any serious delays—is essential to maintaining productivity and customer satisfaction.
SolarWinds® ipMonitor® comes with two monitors, the HTTP monitor and HTTPS monitor, which can constantly check your HTTP and HTTPS endpoints to help you ensure they’re working properly.
- HTTP Monitor: The HTTP monitor tests the ability of a web server to accept incoming sessions and conduct a transaction. If the web server doesn’t respond within the required number of seconds, it’s considered a failure.
- HTTPS Monitor: The HTTPS monitor tests the ability of a web server to accept incoming sessions over a secure channel, generate a webpage server-side, and then transmit the page to the monitoring solution. The requested pages can be either static HTML pages or dynamic pages, like Microsoft Active Server pages.
If the HTTP monitor or HTTPS monitor detects any issues, ipMonitor can send an alert notifying the proper members of your team, so they can act fast to address them.
Improve webpage performance
Ensuring your web servers and webpages are performing optimally often entails more than just checking if they’re able to accept incoming sessions. SolarWinds ipMonitor comes with features designed to help you more easily ensure optimal web application and web server performance.
For example, the HTTPS monitor in ipMonitor can allow you to more easily:
- Monitor secure web-based apps for potential impact to customer service and sales
- Follow redirections until an error occurs or until a valid file is transmitted
Keep track of user experience and increase customer satisfaction with an HTTP user experience monitor
One of the biggest reasons to make sure your web servers are functioning properly is to provide the best end-user experience. SolarWinds ipMonitor is designed to make maintaining and improving the end-user experience easier with its included user experience monitors, such as the HTTP User Experience monitor.
The HTTP User Experience monitor can help you confirm your web server can accept incoming sessions and transmit requested resources (like the results of a CGI script or a webpage). Like the standard HTTP monitor, it can help ensure the web server is performing as it should, such as responding within a certain number of seconds. By keeping track of your web server’s performance and alerting you when something goes wrong, the HTTP User Experience monitor can help you ensure end users get the best experience possible.
Automatically discover devices and get recommendations on what to track
SolarWinds ipMonitor includes the Device Discovery Wizard, which searches for devices in your network and lets you control the discovery methods and range of IP addresses to scan. You can then use the wizard to create new monitors based on your detected resources.
ipMonitor also comes with SmartMonitor technology, which is designed to suggest the best monitors and data collection settings for nearly everything on your network. SmartMonitor can help you spend less time trying to figure out how to configure settings by hand and more time monitoring your devices.
Maintain service availability with an HTTP monitor
IP Address Manager
- Verify if a web server can accept incoming sessions
- Automatically discover devices
- Stay on top of issues with customizable dashboards and alerts
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