If you care about the uptime status of your website or SaaS application, there are two really great pieces of content shared last month that you should look into. One is an article on continuous testing from Parasoft Corporation, featured on DZone. The other is a recorded presentation on Application Performance Monitoring (APM) by Expected Behavior, from the Full Stack Toronto conference.

Update:~Visualize Web Transactions end to end, with performance metrics of all components starting from URLs to SQL queries with Site24x7 APM Insight Application down-time can be nightmarish Consider you are the owner of an~e-business~portal and due to the slow response time of a search request, a customer decides to move to a competitor's website. That's certainly painful.