One of the main reasons you may start looking for monitoring tools is the need to get notified when your website is down or not performing properly.

Of course, you need to be aware of the problem before your customers do so you could take actions to avoid customer and revenue loss. After all, if your website has been down for a while without your knowledge, you are likely to experience serious business downfalls. To avoid critical situations like that, you should simply ensure you have set the alerting of your monitoring targets properly.

Monitoring your website's availability and performance has proven to be a crucial part of the responsibilities of web-business owners. Knowing about a problem with your website or application on time helps you avoid possible downtimes and clientsand revenue loss. That is why we make sure to alert you in all possible ways. In this article we will introduce you to the Contact types we support, how to set them up and how to use them.

Contact Types:

There are many reasons to set up customized alerts from WebSitePulse, such as:

• You are parsing the content of the alerts with another notification and/or monitoring tool.
• You need specific data in the alerts (last resolved IP, the first 100 bytes of the response we received from your server, etc.).
• You only want to receive 1 SMS notification (usually up to 160 characters per message)  when we detect a failure.

How to Customize Alerts

Customizing alerts contents is an easy and straight forward process that you can do in less than 5 minutes. Here’s how:

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How come you got involved in IT?

I always enjoyed working with computers when I was in school and so it seemed a natural area to study at the university. I enjoyed studying database design so once I completed my BSC in 2005, I started looking for a database developer position.