# URL Monitor | URL Monitoring Software & Tool — ManageEngine OpManager ## URL monitoring Monitor and manage URL availability and uptime effectively with OpManager's website monitoring capabilities. [![URL Monitoring in OpManager: Video](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7tqQyQI15oI/hqdefault.jpg)](https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/7tqQyQI15oI?si=GyBw8ONc4L-jwQeO) In today's Internet economy, you cannot leave your website availability to chance, when your company is spending its marketing dollars on attracting prospective customers to your website. 24/7 monitoring of your website for availability and performance is critical to identify website problems proactively before they escalate into substantial downtime and lost revenue. ## URL monitoring: Challenges - Monitor both external & intranet applications. - Get notified when websites are compromised by hackers. - Ensure each server in a web farm is up and serving pages. - Monitor web pages that require an authenticated login. - Monitor all parts of a web application. ## OpManager's URL monitoring: Features ### URL monitoring: Monitor URLs, Virtual Hosts, and Intranet ![URL Monitoring in OpManager: Monitor URLs, Virtual Hosts, and Intranet](https://cdn.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/url-monitoring.jpg) OpManager checks URLs to ensure that they are reachable and serving pages which is a more reliable way of monitoring websites, instead of depending on ICMP pings or TCP port checks on port 80. You can monitor the availability and health of all your public websites as well as your web-based applications running in your Intranet. ### URL monitoring: Content Match - Restore compromised websites immediately Your website is always prone to attack from hackers and when it is compromised, simply relying on availability checks won't help you. OpManager allows you to monitor a URL and search for a specific text on the page. When the text is missing you can be immediately alerted and you will get to know in real time that your website has been compromised. ### URL monitoring - Monitoring a Web Server Farm ![URL Monitoring in OpManager: Monitoring a Web Server Farm](https://cdn.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/url-monitoring-2.jpg) When you are running a web server farm, you know that a global URL being available to end customers is not a real indicator of your website's health and availability. If a few servers in your web farm are down, customers may start to experience slower website response due to increased load on the remaining servers. OpManager gives you the ability to monitor the same website on several machines so that you can track and fix failures on individual servers even though the website itself is available to end-customers. ### URL monitoring: Monitoring web applications with parameters Some of your Web applications may require a login ID, Password, or some other type of form submission to access a webpage. OpManager allows you to specify the request parameters of the form (like login and password) and then check if the page login was successful. This helps you to monitor web applications that require authentication. ### URL monitoring: Know if parts of your web application are down A database failure on your public website can be quite an embarrassing failure. You can't have your users fill up a lot of details and click on "submit" only to receive a database error or exception. With OpManager's URL monitoring, you have to create a dynamic page that makes a database query and then prints a success message. By having OpManager monitor this page and do a content match for the success string, you can rest assured that your database is up and running along with your webpage. ### Integtrate with Applications Manager to get the URL performance breakup By integrating OpManager to the Applications Manage's URL monitoring, you can track the internet and intranet URL performance and ensure the site uptime. The URL monitoring capabilities of Applications Manager help you track the availability, health, page size, load speed, and response time of all the URLs within the sequence. You can also gain insights on the detailed performance breakup of each element in the page, thereby easily understanding which part of the page has latency issues and needs to be fixed in the event of downtime. This helps you provide a rich, uninterrupted user experience to the end-users and gain their trust. ## Discover more on URL monitoring ### Featured - [Packet loss monitoring](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/network-packet-loss-monitoring.html?url) - [Availability monitoring](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/availability-monitoring.html?url) - [Website uptime monitoring](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/uptime-monitoring.html?url) ### Quick links - [Blogs](https://blogs.manageengine.com?url) - [E-books](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/ebooks.html?url) - [Videos](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/videos.html?url) - [Case studies](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/customer-recommends.html?url) - [Awards and Recognitions](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/network-software-review.html?url) ### Additional Resources - **Blog**: [5 major website monitoring features](https://blogs.manageengine.com/application-performance-2/appmanager/2022/10/12/5-main-website-monitoring-features.html?url) - **Tech-topics**: [Troubleshooting network latency](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/tech-topics/troubleshooting-network-latency.html?url) - **Help**: [How to monitor URLs for availability](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/help/monitor-url.html?url) ## Related Products - [Network Monitoring](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/?relPrd) - [Bandwidth Monitoring & Traffic Analysis](https://www.manageengine.com/products/netflow/?relPrd) - [Network Configuration Management](https://www.manageengine.com/network-configuration-manager/?relPrd) - [Switch Port & IP Address Management](https://www.manageengine.com/products/oputils/?relPrd) - [Firewall Management](https://www.manageengine.com/products/firewall/?relPrd) - [Network Monitoring Software for MSPs](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring-msp/?relPrd) - [IT Operations Management](https://www.manageengine.com/it-operations-management/) - [Application Performance Monitoring](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/?relPrd)