Today I’ve been looking over some of our stats for service uptime, and realised it would be handy if we could let you (the staff and students using them) know when things were broken.
Now you can, as I’ve just added another three of our core services (Portal, Email and Library Catalogue) and one non-core but useful service (Blogs) to our Pingdom monitoring system. They now join Blackboard on a brand new public status page. Even better, because we like being open with things like this, you can see the history of our monitoring as far back as it goes. For the new ones this means you can look over history back to today, but for Blackboard this goes all the way back to February.
Pingdom’s monitoring is from a variety of locations around the world, meaning it reflects ‘real’ availability and not just what we can see from our own internal network.
See what’s up and what’s down, any time, at stats.lncn.eu.
Lovely stuff. You mentioned an API for Pingdom…?
Sure thing! The documentation is available at http://pingdom.com/services/api-documentation-rest/ – you’ll need me to generate credentials for any application though.