Auxiliary Tools

Below are Auxiliary Tools to enable monitoring, analysis, report creation and simulation : 

• Benchmarking
• WAPT (Web Site APplication Testing) is a web load and stress testing tool that provides a way of testing web sites, web servers, and intranet applications with web interfaces.
• WCAT is a Web Capacity Analysis Tool freely available from Microsoft.
• WebStone from MindCraft measures raw throughput of a standard HTTP workload, see also the NCSA Web Server Performance page.
• Web Server Stress Tool is a powerful HTTP client/server test application, designed to pinpoint critical performance issues in your web site or web server that may prevent optimal experience for your site's visitors. Supports SSL.
• WWW performance monitoring
• Website Monitoring
  • BasicState is a free hosted service for monitoring the status of http servers. Subscribers can also add popular ecommerce partner sites to their alert specifications.
  • EZ WebSite Monitoring monitors uptime, response time/quality, history, popularity ranking, and tracking important changes.
  • DownorNot shows actual and past information about the uptime of (mainly) popular websites
  • hostUcan Free monitoring of uptime and performance of a web site from multiple geographic locations.
  • Jiploo.com Website Monitoring" is a web based tool for monitoring web sites and sending alerts on performance or downtime failures.
  • LinkLogics provides Quality of Service surveillance, Web Performance analysis, and SLA Reporting.
  • Panopta is a server monitoring service and outage management system for online businesses and service providers, providing the ability to detect outages immediately, then notify the right people about the outage, and finally, give a team the right tools to resolve the outage quickly.
  • Pingdom lets you monitor the uptime and response time of your web site or servers from several locations around the world. See your historical performance and make sure that you have a acceptable availability so you are not loosing customers and visitors. You can also receive SMS and email notifications if any downtime occurs so you can fix any errors the minute they happen.
  • RedAlert is a Web site monitoring service that can perform end-to-end checks of your a site every 5 or 15 minutes. It can also monitor DNS, email, news & telnet servers.
  • SITEImpulse Website Monitoring providing 1 minute availability monitoring. It has 3 monitoring stations on different continents. Email, SMS and RSS alerts.
  • StressWalk is a pre-production infrastructure testing service powered by Absolute Performance's System Shepherd(r) WebWalk(tm). It uses an automated high load of simulations of your end-users' website behavior.
  • WebMetrics Globalwatch provides performance monitoring and metrics for a broad range of websites, internet applications and services. It provides the information for customer-centric decision-making for those providing web-enabled services.
  • WebPerform provides website performance monitoring and testing services from network locations in major cities across the globe. Drill-down object, host, and component level detail on test runs, reporting, and alerting help companies identify and resolve availability issues and performance problems.
  • Website Monitoring is a free website monitoring application released under the GPL that provides an uptime monitoring tool.
  • WebWalk is a proven dynamic feature that uses synthetic transactions to measure application performance from the end-user perspective. i
  • WebWatchBot provides monitoring, notification, and analysis software for web sites and IP devices, providing email alerts, reporting and performance metrics.
  • Wombat monitors the availability and operation of websites. When your website goes down or produces a defineable error, WOMbot will automatically notify you via SMS and Email.
• Webalizer is a fast, free web server log file analysis program. It produces highly detailed, easily configurable usage reports in HTML format, for viewing with a standard web browser.