phpWatch Release Announcement

I am pleased to announce that I have released phpWatch v1.0.6 Beta and it is now available for download.

phpWatch is a general purpose service monitor that is able to send notifications of outages via e-mail or text-message (SMS). The purpose of this system is two-fold: it allows administrators to easily check the status of many different services running on any number of servers and also allows developers to interface with the query and notification APIs.

A demonstration of the administrator view is available at here. The AJAX based user-interface makes it simple to view, add, edit, and delete service monitors as well as notifications on a single page. The configuration page allows users to customize and format the notifications that are sent out during a service outage. Note that when a new version of phpWatch is released, the bottom of the page (where it shows the phpWatch version number) will be updated with a notification.

The developer documentation is available here. The API allows other PHP scripts to query the monitored services in real-time, gather statistics about services, and interact with the notification system to send SMS and e-mail alerts.

If you find any bugs or have a suggestion, please feel free to add them to the bug-tracker on Sourceforge or send an e-mail to me at aaron (at) aaron-rosenfeld (dot) com.

Demonstration Page
http://aaron-rosenfeld.com/phpWatch/demo

Developer Documentation
http://aaron-rosenfeld.com/phpWatch/demo/docs

Download Link
phpWatch v1.0.6 Beta - 56kb