[How to use it] How a free website monitoring tool made operations "easier"

(This article was updated on August 23, 2022)

Hello.
around summer360,000 yenI bought a500,000 yenlaptop, and as you can see,my daily diet has become just bean sprouts and carbohydratesThis is Goto from the Web Services Department.
Balancing dieting and saving money is difficult, but I'm trying to be careful not to rebound.
And during this frugal lifestyle, I've rediscovered how delicious ochazuke (rice with tea poured over it) is.

At Beyond, wethe reservation system EDISONEandthe website monitoring service Appmillprimarily offer two web services:
The operation of these web services is the responsibility of the Web Services Division, which includes myself.

The Edison and Apmil services mentioned above were of course developed for customers, but they are also being used extensively within the company

using the website monitoring service Appmill within our companyour experienceI will share

We will also introduce the overview of Apmil from the perspective of the person in charge!

in charge of managing websitesWe hope this will be helpful to those

This article is recommended for the following people

• Website/Web service operators
• People working at web development companies
• Those looking for a way to efficiently manage their currently operating websites

What you'll learn in this article

• How will using a website monitoring service change your website operations?
• How to set up the website monitoring service Apmir
• Website monitoring service usage examples

What is the website monitoring service Appmill?

Apmilla website monitoring service that automatically checks the status of web pages simply by registering their URLs.

If there are problems with the communication status or the speed at which web pages load, Appmillsend a notification to the contacts you have set up in advance.

website administratorsto quickly detect and address problems without constantly monitoring the site's statusallows

The following videojust 1.5 minutesprovides a concise introduction to Apmir in

Please take a look at this as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFDnxAxeh4Y

With Apmil, you can detect most problems that occur in website operation

Apmil can detect most of the typical problems that occur on websites

Specifically, the following items can be monitored for each pricing plan:

Items that can be monitored with the free plan

• Communication status check (alive monitoring)
• Response time check (display speed check)
• Status abnormality check
• SSL Expiration Check
• Domain Expiration Check
• Scenario monitoring for up to 5 URLs (checking the communication status of related pages)

With the security plan, you can monitor the following items in addition to the free plan monitoring items:

• HTML difference comparison
• Snapshot Comparison
• Malware Protection
• Social Engineering Countermeasures
• Broken Link Check

If you want to know more about each item, please check out the official website

Go to Apmil official website ››

What's great about Apmil from the perspective of an operations manager [Compared to other services]

As those of you who have read this far have probably already noticed, this articlea sponsored post.

If this were YouTube, this would be the type of article that would display the message "This video contains promotional content."

Well, since we're introducing our own company's services, it's only natural that the content will be like this, sorry

This guy must be scolded by his boss if he doesn't write articles like this. I guess I'll have no choice but to take a look(But it probably won't happen)I hope you will feel this way and bear with me a little longer

(I declared that this was a promotional article, so maybe it's not stealth marketing anymore?)

In reality,website monitoring servicesbesides Apmill.

various website monitoring servicescompare and consider, please check out this article.

A comprehensive guide to website monitoring tools and a comparison of recommended tools [URL Monitoring]

However, among the many website monitoring services available, there are three features of Apumillwere truly outstanding and comparable to other services, which I will introduce below.

Free monitoring every 5 minutes

Many website monitoring services, like Apumill, offer free plans, but theyoften have limitations such as a small number of URLs that can be registered or monitoring intervals that are too long (e.g., 1 hour to 1 day), which can restrict their usewebsite health checks, response time checks, and status code checks at5-minute intervalsallows you to perform

You can register 100 URLs for monitoring for free

It's rare to find a monitoring service that allows you to register 100 URLs for free. Thisother environments that manage multiple websites simultaneouslyis especially useful for

The free plan supports scenario monitoring for up to 5 URLs

In addition to the registered URL, Apmil also allows you to register up to five related URLs depending on the settings. Therefore, when an abnormality occurs in a URL registered for monitoring, you can simultaneously find out whether an abnormality has occurred in the related URLs

inquiry pages,e-commerce purchase pages, and other similar pagesThis feature is useful for use on

Why do we offer free website monitoring services?

▲The image shows Beyond's CEO, Haraoka (right), and director Morita (left)

As mentioned above, Apmil is a free service that is quite practical to use

(Even more advanced automated monitoring is possible by using a paid security plan.)

However, when it comes to free services like Apumil,what they're really up to behind the scenesdon't you find yourself wondering

*Of course, there are no initial costs, and you can rest assured that we will never charge you any expensive fees later on

from the perspective of the person in chargethe reason for offering it for freeI would like to explain

① We want many people to know how convenient it is to build a monitoring system

For those currently operating websites without automated content or server monitoring, or without outsourcing maintenance and operation, wejust how much more secure your website operation becomes when you build a monitoring systemwant you to experience firsthand

② I want people to know about Beyond through Apmil

Beyond, the company that develops and provides Apumil, is involved in various businesses in addition to providing web services,game API development, e-commerce site development, andcloud/server construction, migration, operation, and maintenance. We hope that you will become interested in our business through Apumil.

And there are the aims as mentioned above

Of course, we don't offer all features for free, but our mainan advertising platform, so most features are available for free.

Try out the website monitoring service Apmil

from Apmirhow to set it upbelow.

The installation method is also explained in the video below, so please take a look if you are interested

introduction

The setup is extremely simple;all you need to do is register your email address and a password of your choice. (It takes less than a minute.)

Try installing Apmil ››

Registering a monitoring URL - Basic settings

Once you have completed your membership registration, register the URL you want to monitor

While initial setup is not required to begin using the service,the monitoring rule settingsvarious settings can be configured by proceeding to

Joint monitoring with other users is now possible! User invitation

By inviting users by email address, you can share monitoring status with other users

For example, if you're managing a client's websiteeasily share information, it's particularly useful because you can

The following items can be set on the Apmil basic settings screen

Alert notification destination

alert notificationsemail, SMS, or phoneYou can choose to receive

Integration with ChatWork will also be possible from December 2021!

is nowChatwork integrationavailable for free. Since many companies use chat tools for communication, this should make the system even more practical and efficient.

Automatically closing alerts

When an alert occurs in Apumir,"Open"it will appear in the alert list with the status

If you enable automatic closing of alerts, the alert will automaticallyclose, and the alert list will then distinguish between alerts that are still unresolved and those that are not.

Timeout (seconds)

The timeout setting determines how many seconds of delay in response time (web page display speed) must occur before an alert is sent

Setting this to a stricter valueimprove SEOcan be used to

Status Code Monitoring Rules

By default, "200" is registered as the normal status code, and an alert notification will be generated if "404", "500", etc. are actually confirmed on the page, but you can change the normal status code by configuring it. In most cases, there is no problem leaving this item at the default setting

Patrol monitoring when an alert occurs

Here, you can register up to five URLs for scenario monitoring for each URL

Please note that the URLs you can register here will not consume the 100 URL credits that are already given to you when you register as a member

Examples of using the website monitoring service Apmil

Next, based on my own experience,particularly convenient!of how I've found Apumilsome examplesI'll share

Useful in these situations ① Domain and SSL expiration date reminders

This is extremely useful if you manage a large number of websites

It's a task that doesn't happen often, so it's easy to forget. If you register your URL with Appmil, you can check the expiration date of your domain and SSL certificate at any time from the management screen, and you can also set up an alert notification to be sent 90 days before the expiration date

More details on this are also provided in the article below

[Easy] Free method to manage domain and SSL certificate expiration dates [Website Management]

Useful in these situations ② SEO improvement

such as communication errors, delayed response times, and broken linksleaving issuesを及ぼすと言われています。

This is extremely useful for content managers, as they want to quickly fix any issues like those listed above that occur on the web pages they manage

[Summary] Apmil is a convenient tool that makes website operation "easy"

This time, we gave a frank introduction to Apmil, from its overview to how to use it

If you are interested, please give it a try!

Thank you for watching until the end