Ask HN: What do you use for website monitoring?

curl -o /dev/null -s -w '%{http_code}' http://www.example.com/somepath/version.txt

What kind of website monitoring? Just checking a random domain is available on the internet? Then yes, Pingdom is a no brainer.

If you have a complex application with multiple moving parts you'd probably want to look into something like nagios.

Cloudkick, New Relic, Nagios, Nimsoft

Pingdom is pretty fail and unrealiable tbh. Hopefully this helps a bit.

I think most people use Pingdom, it's relatively cheap and does the job.

However if you want to go a bit deeper and see how the underlying server is behaving you need something like http://servermonitoringhq.com

server density.

We're currently running three different monitoring services:

Pingdom - for global average responsiveness. Server Density - for server internals monitoring. Blamey & Stella - for public status reports.

I highly recommend checking out Blamey & Stella, if for no other reason than their brand is absolutely hilarious, and they offer a pretty good product, as well:

http://www.blamestella.com/