suricat.eu allows you to monitor your website or online service (web service, FTP, etc.) from a decentralized platform, without installation on your server.
suricat.eu regularly checks that your website or web service is available, responds quickly enough, and that the response returned is the one expected.
The Suricat software, hosted on our platform or by one of the network members, is synchronized across the network and queries your online service at regular intervals. As soon as a malfunction occurs, an alert is sent to suricat.eu and you can be notified by email or SMS.
To join the Suricat network, simply register with an email address and password. Your email address will not be sold or used for any purpose other than urgent communications relating to your activity on the Suricat network. To monitor your web service, follow these steps:
- First, create an account on suricat.eu.
- After logging in with your credentials on the suricat.eu website, enter the URLs of the website(s) you want to monitor and choose the type of monitoring (HTTP status monitoring, response time monitoring, response by searching for a character string, etc.).
- You can then choose either
- use the Suricat network for free and download and install a suricat on your computer (personal or server, Windows or Linux)
- take out a subscription allowing you to monitor your website with the Suricat network
- You can view this data on the suricat.eu site console from your account.
- Whether you have a subscription or are using the Suricat network for free, the Suricat software attempts to connect to your web service at regular intervals. Performance data is transmitted securely to the suricat.eu site.
- In the event of a malfunction, you can be notified by SMS or email (optional).
Suricat also offers
- the ability to download monthly reports and
- view data online.
The Suricat network is based on solidarity among network users. It is the “free” users (those who do not subscribe to a paid service) who monitor the services of network members. When a Suricat program is shut down, the other programs in the network take over monitoring the network. This solidarity is similar to that which unites a group of meerkats.
These animals (Suricata suricatta) live in groups of around twenty individuals in the plains of southern Africa. They dig the ground to search for food and to build burrows. While most individuals search for insects and larvae in the ground, a few sentinels stand on their hind legs to watch the surroundings and warn the group of predators (such as birds of prey) with warning cries.
These animals are called “desert sentinels.”
The suricat.eu network offers a similar function:
- “Free” users of the network provide computing power and time to the suricate software. They earn monitoring tokens, which they can use to monitor their web services. If they need to shut down the suricate software, their web services are still monitored (as long as they still have monitoring tokens).
- Network subscribers (paying users) purchase monitoring tokens or subscriptions to the suricat.eu site. These monitoring tokens are used when monitoring their web services.
- The suricat.eu site synchronizes the suricat software, based on the number of users, ensuring that memory and CPU consumption and the number of requests are limited. The site allows you to view the performance of your web service, as well as any alerts. Monthly reports and historical data are also available.
Our job is to build a redundant, robust network capable of monitoring your services accessible on the Internet; every user of the network should find it beneficial.