[dns-operations] Distributed Monitoring

[Dave Warren]

I've been using Constellix throughout their beta, it's decent, although 
a little quirky. I occasionally would get outage reports where their own 
"test" indicates success from the same point that tripped a failure, but 
the probe reported failures. It's gotten better since the early days of 
the beta, but it's still disconcerting because I wonder whether there is 
a real problem that I'm not seeing. It's been a little while since this 
happened, perhaps it's resolved?

In the beta phase their support often took several days to answer, which 
is reasonable for a beta product, but it made tracking it down very 
difficult (And again, I am NOT complaining about the speed of service, I 
don't expect a SLA on a beta product that is under active development)

All in all, I'd recommend them. You do need an active DNSMadeEasy 
account, but the cheapest DNSMadeEasy service will justify itself just 
for the Constellix service, even if you don't touch DNSMadeEasy. 
Conversely, I already use DNSMadeEasy, so adding Constellix was a 
no-brainer as long as it remains free with DNSMadeEasy.



On 2016-03-03 03:57, Mark Jeftovic wrote:
> I've been experimenting with Constellix and it's looking good.
>
> - mark
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Mar 3, 2016, at 4:16 AM, Brett <brettcarr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> For various reasons we are currently considering changing some of the
>> monitoring around our DNS platform. We are specifically looking at the
>> distributed monitoring of Anycast  Auth DNS servers (IE from multiple
>> end points). I was wondering what other people use for this type of
>> monitoring? Anything you would strongly recommend or strongly advise
>> against. Open source along with commercial and SAAS solutions would
>> all be considered, the most important things are reliability and cost.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> -- 
>> Brett
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