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Uptime Robot SMTP check is not service-specific (yet) but a TCP check…

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/11

When you use the check on the SMTP port, note that [WayBack] Uptime Robot on Twitter: “Yes, it is not service-specific (yet) but a TCP check.… “.

It does to full DNS protocol checks from IP address though, so I am glad about that.

jeroen

via: [WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter”@uptimerobot I have the impression that the SMTP port check does not really check anything but the port being open. Had a flaky mail server that would react on the TCP level, but timed out on the SMTP level. Uptimerobot did not notice that.”

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EmbarcaderoMonitoring – monitoring the Embarcadero internet related services

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/15

Over time, there are lots of complaints about Embarcadero related internet services (like forums, QC, Appanalytics, docwiki, blogsweb site, maintenance) so to track uptime, I’ve created a set of EmbarcaderoMonitoring pages:

This is preliminary work based on my own lists of Embarcadero endpoints combined with some research like [WayBack] dnsdumpster embarcadero.com.png and [WayBack] IdentIPSpy

Underneath, they run on the uptimerobot.com infrastructure which has a limit of 50 free monitors.

It means I have to:

  • trim this down for relevancy
  • better document the endpoint
  • find correct endpoint targets for the black (disabled) and red (down) entries as a few of them might need tweaking
  • maybe split off an insecure and secure version (now most subdomains have both http and https monitored)

Any ideas on improving this are welcome: please post a comment here on on the resulting G+ thread.

Note it likely won’t show cases like when the website was hacked or TLS certificate issues like in SSLLabs security reports for some embarcadero subdomains. I need to think about a means for those, as it will certainly help monitoring my own infrastructure in a similar way.

–jeroen

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