When it comes to knowing that your website is online, what’s the best way? There’s a process called network monitoring which is basically a computer tied to the internet which constantly checks to see if your website is online at a regular schedule. If it’s down, an email can be sent right away.

This same process can be used for stream monitoring and video stream monitoring and it’s a great way to ensure your website provider is doing their job, which of course is to keep your website online.

What is the purpose of monitoring?

To ensure high quality and availability in your streams, to track buffering time, throughput, user frustration, and much more! With optimized streaming, you can keep your visitors happy, improve your image, and guarantee the quality of your video streams without having to spend internal resources to maintain expensive connections. The best part is that with quality monitoring services, you can test your streams from all over the world and  know immediately when your streams are frustrating users.

Monitoring can be used to monitor not only websites but intranet solutions, rich media, business applications and even Internet enabled devices from coffee makers to earth movers.

Is your website available right now? Was your website available 10 minutes ago? What about an hour ago or during a major release? Do you know when it wasn’t available or for how long? As consumers become more reliant on the Internet, it’s important that your website be as reliable as your business.

Web monitoring remotely monitors your streaming media such as video and audio to ensure you have the confidence to say your online business is flawless. After all, in the modern world when customers can easily switch to another service provider at the click of a mouse, it’s it important to ensure that you’re always just a mouse click away?