Selecting the right remote monitoring service is an important decision. A service that isn't reliable or doesn't catch system failures is no better than not monitoring. Even a service that's reliable may not provide enough details to help find and remedy performance or availability problems.

At Elk Fork Technologies we are committed to making elkMonitor the best monitoring service available, elkMonitor isn't just a sideline for us, it's our core business. We are continually assessing feedback and suggestions from our customers and enhancing the service based on those suggestions. This continuous process of improvement along with our investment in our monitoring infrastructure assures your that the elkMonitor service will provide the utmost reliability and provide you with the tools you need to keep your website and other servers running at their best.

While considering your selection of services we've put together this list of features to help you compare elkMonitor to the other services that are available.

Feature elkMonitor Other Services
Test Agents across US and Europe on multiple internet backbones ?
Full Page Performance Monitoring providing complete page and object level performance detail ?
Transactional Website Monitoring provides support for multi-step test scenarios and page validation ?

Highly granular timing information for all tests including DNS, Redirection, Connect, Time To First Byte and Time to Last Byte detail

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Protocol Level testing with Content Validation features to assure your pages are rendered properly ?
Support for HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SMTP, POP3, DNS and NNTP protocols ?
Ability to setup multiple users for an account including read-only users who can only view reports ?

Real-time user definable Dynamic Charting with drilldown support

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Schedule and Escalation based notification models ?

Email, SMS, Pager Alerting

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30 Day Fully Featured Trial of Service ?

Toll Free Technical Support

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