For whatever it’s worth, the app is currently listed for $5.00 in the US App Store.
There is: use the ‘Fnd’ search service. If you have DuckDuckGo as your default search engine, you can simply put !fnd search term in your browser’s address bar. If not, go to fnd.io. Here’s an example of the app detail page for Online Check. You can easily change which country’s store listing you’re looking at, too, if you want to see pricing in different locations.
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Can you tell us how to set that up? I’ve been looking at the V7 UI and documentation and can’t figure it out. Thanks!
I have a “home monitor” Mac, for running Indigo among other things.
I would like it to have log of downtime periods, because I also have intermittent fails.
I’ll write a simple bash script to check a couple of sites and record changes in a file.
I’ll probably have it launch every minute from corn.
When I’ve tested and polished it, I’ll post it here.
Hmmm, it I check the ping times, I could also track slloowwnneess.
Thanks for the!
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Here is a screenshot. I’ve opened the Alerts section; it’s the first rule, pointed at by the red arrow.
Thanks, very helpful! I just set it up.
I wonder why the app is no longer free? The developer’s FAQ (while answering a slightly different question) says “I make apps because I enjoy it. Your money is of no interest to me.”
I do use iStat Menus (great for a variety of reasons) and didn’t set up those notifications because of those provided by Ping. It occurred to me that I wasn’t really clear about why I was using Ping and in particular the commercial version. Ping doesn’t just monitor your connection, it monitors any connection.
I’ve been running a business that depends on customers connecting to multiple sites for information, to submit API calls, etc. Knowing when any of them were offline or slowing down significantly helped prevent a lot of customer complaints. I had six sites set up in Ping and if any one of them had a problem a notification would appear on my screen. It can also be set up to send SMS and/or emails under certain circumstances.
Since selling that business I no longer need that level of monitoring but it was a one-time license so I still use it to monitor apple.com, cloudflare.com and google.com just for fun. For $12 it’s a pretty good deal. I do have the iStat menus set up now, too, and appreciate @ddmiller pointing that out.
I wondered about that. But it seemed like I would find it useful, and the price also seems fair, so I got it. As long as it doesn’t do anything untoward in the background which is always my main concern.
I wonder if it was a typo or a glitch or something. I just visited the App Store page and it seems to be free now:
That’s a different app as the others were referring to the one in the first post:
As I mentioned earlier, there was a link to a download of a previous version but the link is gone now.
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