News
Monitor your transition to IPv6 with WatchMouse (2009-10-14)
You've heard it before, and it's being announced more frequently and louder: The number of available addresses on the Internet is running out, and we all should move to the new addressing scheme, IPv6, as soon as possible.
The uptake has been rather slow in the past, but that seems to be changing now as companies, ISPs, and other organizations are taking their first steps on the road to the IPv6 world. For most of these companies, however, this is quite a big step, with many things to consider and many uncertainties.
External IPv6 monitoring
As of today, WatchMouse offers IPv6 monitoring for web sites and other external services of your company. The monitoring network will, just like visitors of your website that happen to be on an IPv6 connected network, connect to your site when an IPv6 record is available in the DNS of your domain.
Check your IPv6 connectivity right now? Just visit our Check Host tool or the Ping tool. And while you're at it, set up a rule in your account to monitor your site continuously from our world wide monitoring network.
Many changes
To fully enable IPv6 monitoring, we have upgraded several components of our infrastructure:
By offering IPv6 standard in all packages (including the free package and the 30-day trial) and in the tools on our site, we hope to facilitate a smoother transition to IPv6 in your organization.
Is your company interested in IPv6? Then do keep an eye on our IPv6 posts on WatchMouse labs.
BadBoy Software updates scripting recorder to improve WatchMouse's Functional testing service (2009-01-07)
The WatchMouse Functional testing service allows you to define multi-step tests through a website and replay them periodically from the WatchMouse monitoring stations. This goes beyond just monitoring site performance and uptime, it allows you to verify that your web applications and back end systems really work.
More information on this service can be found on the Transaction Monitoring & Web Application Testing page.
In a co-operation with BadBoy software, who provide a tailored version of their recoder software which allows you to upload the resulting script directly into your WatchMouse dashboard.
Feedback from our "Functional testing" customers has lead to several essential improvements to the BadBoy recorder. This improved version has now been released and we recommend all our customers to upgrade to this version.
The new - WatchMouse specific - version can be downloaded here:
http://www.badboy.com.au/versions/BadboyInstaller-2.0-latest_wm.exe
The most important changes are:
CHANGES IN BADBOY 2.0.7
#1097: Multipart Forms Incorrectly export Parameters to JMeter Encoded causing Double Encoding
#1087: Use Follow-Redirect Option in JMeter for More Reliable Export Playback
#1086: Export Referer and Other Default Headers to JMeter
#1085: Assertions placed as Children of Requests not Exported to JMeter
CHANGES IN BADBOY 2.0.6.1
#1075: Security Update (MS08-052 - Critical)
The full release notes can be found here:
http://badboy.com.au/versions/ReleaseNotes-2.0.7.txt
Improvements and new features in the WatchMouse checkpoints (2005-06-01)
Version 1.17 of the monitoring software was uploaded to our checkpoints, and the site was adapted accordingly.
New features include:
- Ability to POST form fields to a webserver (both in http and https rules).
- Matching on a word or regular expression in the http or https page.
- Limit the number of bytes read. Relevant for checking the first part of very large pages or streams.
Press releases
WatchMouse releases new Site Performance Monitoring Widget for Apple users (download widget) (2006-10-22)
WatchMouse releases 2.0 widget for dashboard, aimed at Internet site performance monitoring.
NETHERLANDS, 2006-10-23. By means of the widget Apple users can get direct insight into the performance of their own Internet site. The widget can be downloaded for free from the Apple website.
In 2002, WatchMouse (www.watchmouse.com) introduced a new concept for Internet site monitoring. By means of ongoing simulation of Internet visitors the performance of sites and servers is verified. If a site is not responding, an alert message is sent immediately through SMS, pager, Instant Messenger or e-mail. The sites are checked from over twenty monitoring stations worldwide. This is done 24 hours per day, seven days per week. The service is completely web based: customers don't have to install software, everything is 100% self-service, which keeps the costs low.
The three founders of WatchMouse, Niels Eijsbroek, Stan van de Burgt and Mark Pors are enormous Mac-fans with a total of twenty Macs in their possession. The monitoring widget is quite unique: it is a combination of a desktop and a hosted application. When the widgets detects a problem with the site it is checking, it alerts the user with a 'beep', followed by the launch of a web browser, which is directed to a web application on watchmouse.com. There the site is checked from over 20 different locations worldwide.
Worldwide monitoring
The new version (2.0.4) brings continuous performance monitoring, even when the Mac is not connected to the Internet, by connecting the widget to a WatchMouse account (free or paid). In October 2005, WatchMouse released the first version of this widget, which was downloaded over 10.000 times.
WatchMouse has made the widget available free of charge "because we have become addicted to it, ever since we started using the first beta version of the widget", says creative director Niels Eijsbroek. "We give the widget away for free mainly for the fun part. And of course it's also important to bring site performance monitoring to the attention of our fellow Apple-users."
The free WatchMouse site monitoring widget can be downloaded from the Apple website:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/networking_security/watchmousesitemonitor.html
About WatchMouse
Companies can easily monitor their own Internet sites using WatchMouse's monitoring service. WatchMouse has been monitoring Internet sites and e-commerce applications for companies throughout the world since 2002. WatchMouse has thousands of customers in more than 70 countries. The services supplied by WatchMouse are available in nine languages, and analysis are performed from various locations and over numerous networks, using a world-wide monitoring network.
In 2005, WatchMouse was voted a Deloitte Rising Star in the Netherlands, as part of the Fast 50 awards; the list of the 50 fastest growing technology companies.
Further information can be found at: www.watchmouse.com
WatchMouse develops monitoring widget for Apple users (download widget) (2005-10-21)
WatchMouse has developed a new widget for dashboard, aimed at Internet site monitoring.
NETHERLANDS, 2005-10-13. By means of the widget Apple users can get direct insight into the accessibility of their own Internet site. The widget can be downloaded for free from the Apple website.
Last month, WatchMouse was voted a Deloitte Rising Star in the Netherlands, as part of the Fast 50 awards; the list of the 50 fastest growing technology companies.
In 2002, WatchMouse (www.watchmouse.com) introduced a new concept for Internet site monitoring. By means of ongoing simulations of Internet traffic the accessibility of sites and servers is checked. If a site is not responding, an alert message is sent immediately through SMS, telephone, Instant Messenger or e-mail. The sites are checked from sixteen monitoring stations worldwide. This is done 24 hours per day, seven days per week. The service is completely web based: customers don't have to install software, everything is 100% self-service, which keeps the costs low.
The three founders of WatchMouse, Niels Eijsbroek, Stan van de Burgt and Mark Pors are enormous Mac-fans with a total of fifteen Macs in their possession.
The monitoring widget is quite unique: it is a combination of a desktop and a hosted application. When the widgets detects a problem with the site it is checking, it alerts the user with a 'beep', followed by the launch of a web browser, which is directed to a web application on watchmouse.com. There the site is checked from 16 different locations worldwide.
Every five minutes
Every five minutes the dashboard widget checks one or more sites from the users own computer. Also, the availability of the site during the last 72 hours is registered. A problem is followed by an alert, which is then verified by all WatchMouse control stations.
WatchMouse has made the widget available free of charge "because we have become addicted to it, ever since we started using the first beta version of the widget", says CCO Niels Eijsbroek. "We give the widget away for free mainly for the fun part. And of course it's also important to bring site monitoring to the attention of our fellow Apple-users."
The free WatchMouse site monitoring widget can be downloaded from the Apple website:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/networking_security/watchmousesitemonitor.html
About WatchMouse
Companies can easily monitor their own Internet sites using WatchMouse's monitoring service. WatchMouse has been monitoring Internet sites and e-commerce applications for companies throughout the world since 2002. WatchMouse has thousands of customers in more than 70 countries. The services supplied by WatchMouse are available in eight languages, and analysis are performed from various locations and over numerous networks, using a world-wide monitoring network.
Further information can be found at: www.watchmouse.com
WatchMouse and Badboy Software announce partnership (2008-04-03)
Partnership brings easy website transaction monitoring
WatchMouse is pleased to announce a partnership with Australia's Badboy Software. The partnership combines the immensely popular Badboy scripting tool with WatchMouse's market leading website performance monitoring, enabling customers to record complex transaction scripts and run them using a global infrastructure.
Owner and founder of Badboy Software, Simon Sadedin says, "With Badboy Software's in-depth experience in functional testing and WatchMouse's extensive infrastructure, technology and know-how for running enterprise grade monitoring solutions, we have a unique opportunity for collaboration."
The powerful Badboy scripting tool enables customers to professionally record all the actions involved in a web transaction. Designed to aid in the testing and development of complex dynamic applications, the Badboy tool contains dozens of features including a simple yet comprehensive capture/replay interface, load testing support, detailed reports, graphs etc.
WatchMouse CTO, Mark Pors explains, "Having integrated with Badboy, our customers can now upload their Badboy scripts directly into their WatchMouse console. Scripts can then be automatically and periodically run from WatchMouse's global infrastructure of 25+ checkpoints. This new functionality enables our customers to monitor their web applications 24/7 and know how their site behaves when customers access it from locations all around the world."
As a global leader in website performance monitoring, WatchMouse provides many of the world's largest companies with independent verifications of their website performance. With immediate results, automated alerting, simple set up and flexible subscriptions, WatchMouse offers the features, control and quality of service essential for today's online business.
The partnership between WatchMouse and Badboy Software provides customers with a market first: global, easy, powerful, web application testing.
To find out more about this new functionality and sign up for a free trial visit:
http://www.watchmouse.com/scripting.php
Mark Pors
CTO
WatchMouse
http://www.watchmouse.com/
Security news
Linksys WVC54GCA Wireless-G Multiple Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities (2009-04-28)
Linksys WVC54GCA Wireless-G Internet Home Monitoring Camera is prone to multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities because the software fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data.
An attacker may leverage these issues to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and to launch other attacks.
Linksys WVC54GCA Wireless-G Internet Home Monitoring Camera firmware 1.00R22 and 1.00R24 are affected; other versions may also be vulnerable.
Blog
New features: POSTing forms and Read limit (2005-03-28)
Today, we released the new monitoring software to our checkpoints.
New features:
- Post form fields to a webserver (both in http and match rules)
- Limit the number of bytes read. Relevant for checking very large pages or streams
The site will be updated within days. Look at the settings page after logging in.
