[mrtg] Re: Monitoring a URL

[jlawson at financeware.com]

Doesn't smokeping do much of the same thing?
http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/smokeping/




-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Grice [mailto:grice at binc.net]
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 3:35 PM
To: Dave Morrow
Cc: mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
Subject: [mrtg] Re: Monitoring a URL


* Dave Morrow <david.morrow at autodata.net> [040130 13:10]:sfsaf
> Hi all, this is likely an FAQ type question......but I am wondering if
> anyone out there has used MRTG to monitor the response times of websites.
> For example, monitoring http://www.mrtg.org <http://www.mrtg.org>  , wait
> for a particular response, and have MRTG record the time the request took
to
> process.

Sure. My preferred approach would be to create a script with one of
perl's LWP modules and the Time:HiRes modules. There are some potential
sources of error with this approach--for instance, delay in your script
could result in added delay in the results--but I think that's true of
most approaches.

You could also incorporate curl or libcurl into a script, wget, etc.
--Michael

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