Monitoring mobile apps, websites at fingertips now

Now monitoring mobile apps and websites will be easier with Site 24x7 Mobile Network Poller App, the subscription for which starts at $39 per month.

Site24x7, the cloud infrastructure monitoring service from  ManageEngine, has introduced the industry’s first app, Site 24x7 Mobile Network Poller App, that turns Android mobile devices into carrier-specific monitoring locations.

With this, Site24x7 users will be able to track the performance and availability of mobile apps, mobile-optimized websites, and other online services from the perspective of the mobile users who are using the services of Verizon, AT&T and other wireless carriers’ 3G and 4G networks as well as Wi-Fi.

Site24x7 is demonstrating the new Android app at Velocity 2014 being held June 24—26 in Santa Clara, California.

“Mobile apps are now ubiquitous, so the mobile websites and REST APIs used by native iPhone and android apps absolutely must be monitored to ensure excellent end- user experience,” said Gibu K Mcathew, director of product management at Site24x7.

“The new mobile network monitoring capability in Site24x7 will help IT teams monitor status via popular 3G and 4G wireless networks. Additionally, you can monitor response times of APIs that are consumed by these mobile properties,” he added.

The Site24x7 Mobile Network Poller app keeps track of mobile websites, monitoring key metrics like availability, response time and downtime of websites. The app converts an Android mobile device into a monitoring location.

In addition to more than its 50-plus global monitoring locations, Site24x7 can use mobile devices running the Site24x7 Mobile Network Poller App as locations from which to monitor websites.

The breakout capability of the Site24x7 Mobile Network Poller App is the ability to monitor via 3G, 4G or Wi-Fi network or via any other connectivity mode present on the mobile device. Users can also set up multiple devices on different service providers to monitor mobile websites.

It can be downloaded in any office and can monitor website performance. This use case can also be extended to include other branch offices in global locations.

Along with mobile websites, users can choose to monitor the end-user experience of mobile apps by tracking the response times of custom APIs.