SimonFlexible server monitoring
SimonUptime and downtime appear to be non-linear in Simon. I have a demo site which has been up for 3 days but I've taken it down for an hour and the report is showing an up time of only 78%.
Is it in fact non-linear or does it relate to the number of failed requests? My laptop is often turned off so I can see the number of requests will loose it's relationship with up time. If this is the case then using the term 'up time' is misleading.
Turning out to be a really useful product so far though!
Tom
Re: Non-linear up/down time
Hi Tom,
The "uptime" is the ratio between successful and failed checks. As you point out, if Simon isn't constantly monitoring, and it happens to see a higher proportion of failures, that'd skew the ratio.
Also, Simon gives you the option to specify a different check frequency when the previous check was a success or a failure. So checking more often during failures can also skew the ratio. So if the uptime ratio is important to you, you should make the check frequencies equal.