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General

• Notifications

  Receive notifications via email, SMS, in-app messages, voice call, WebHooks, Slack, PagerDuty, Microsoft Teams/Office 365 and Pushover.

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  Multi-user

  Share your account with multiple other users and assign notifications on a per-website/server basis.

• In the cloud

  No complex or time-consuming server software installation required: RapidSpike runs entirely in the cloud.

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  Slack integration

  Integrate with Slack to get uptime alerts in your Slack channels.

• PagerDuty integration

  Integrate with PagerDuty to raise incidents from our uptime alerts.

• WebHooks

  Build you own integrations with WebHooks from our uptime alerts.

• Notes

  Log any planned maintenance, updates and issues against a website, display your notes on Public Status Pages.

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  Widget-based dashboards

  Configure your main dashboards to display whatever you need with a wide variety of usual metrics, graphs and stats in widget form.

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  Public Status pages

  Display live monitors from your account on a custom-branded public status page.

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  Global server network

  Utilise monitoring locations across the world.

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  Internal app-messaging

  All system messages are recorded in the in-app messaging center.

• Multi-format

  The RapidSpike dashboards are designed to work on all types of devices and screen sizes.

• Maintenance Windows

  Pause your monitoring at scheduled or one-off periods to avoid unneccessary alerts.

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  Backgrounds

  Keep calm during unexpected downtime - choose from a variety of beautiful scenic backgrounds!

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  Crisis escalation

  Use rules to escalate server issues to different team members based on length of down-time.

• Data period

  Configure dashboards to show data from 24h, 7 days, 30 days, 90 days and over 2 years.

Synthetic User Journeys

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  Multi-region

  Run journeys from any continent/country to test your application from all around the world.

• Critical process monitor

  Monitor essential processes - such as logins, shopping carts, baskets, contact forms etc.

• Real browser simulation

  The monitor uses a real browser to access your app/website, giving realistic results.

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  Geo-mapping IP Addresses

  See your site/app resources in a global view, with highlights for slow loading elements.

• Performance thresholds

  Set load time thresholds per journey, per region, to get dynamic alerts based on performance.

• Error detection

  Receive notifications for both journey failures and errors caused by any on-page element.

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  App ecosystem

  Detect the failure of add-ons and external 3rd-party plugins.

• Basic Auth

  Access authenticated parts of your platform by sending a username and password.

• Benchmarking

  Use RapidSpike to benchmark and understand key processes of your application.

• Self-Service

  Write your own Journey scripts using our simple JSON-format instructions, which is then converted into a live Journey.

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  Visualise key processes

  We auto-generate screenshots during each key step of your user journey.

• Complex scripts

  The Selenium-powered testing platform allows for sophisticated and complex page interactions.

• Blacklisting

  Blacklist known files from your Journey results - e.g. prevent tracking scripts like Google Analytics from measuring your Journey traffic.

• Managed service

  Enlist our technical account managers to help write and maintain your scripts and translate the results.

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  Resource waterfall view

  View full details of all page elements, including load times, request and response headers.

Real User Monitoring

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  Live data

  Monitor live data from real users, just moments after it has been recorded.

• Per-page traffic analysis

  Receive in-depth stats for every page on your app/site visited by users.

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  Audience geography

  Monitor the location and load time of users across the globe, allowing you to benchmark page speed by region.

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  Conversion funnels

  Build your own multi-page funnels and measure traffic drop-off.

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  Revenue stats

  Add average order values to your checkout funnel to view potential revenue drops between pages.

• Browser & device detection

  Help your dev team to improve performance by tracking load times across browser and device.

Security

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  Vunerability Scanning

  Perform Network and Web App Vulnerability Scans on-demand and scheduled per day, week, month etc. Detect out-of-date software, configuration issues and vulnerabilities, view reports and remediation.

• SSL Cipher monitor

  Track your SSL Cipher, get alerted on any issues and receive a grade for the cryptographic connection strength.

• Data Breach Monitoring

  Track hosted and third-party scripts on your website for data breaches.

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  Google Safe Browsing monitor

  Tracks the Google Safe Browsing list, which monitors sites for malware, social engineering, phishing, and so on.

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  CMS Scanning

  Vulnerability Scans optimised to look for vulnerabilities in major Content Management Systems. Including: WordPress, Drupal, SilverStripe, Joomla and Magento.

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  Port Scanning

  Scan your network perimeter and detect open and closed ports, along with the software and version being run.

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  Malicious User Detection

  Analyse your traffic for malicious IP addresses, receive alerts and view traffic demographics.

Availability

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  Website scanner

  When adding a website we will perform a scan to look for a HTTPS certificate and to confirm your canonical domain name.

• Uptime sensitivity

  Set intervals as low as 1 minute and up to 1 hour.

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  Response Timeout

  Set a timeout for your monitors after which we will mark them as failing.

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  Status Badges

  Advertise your uptime with an "Assured by RapidSpike" badge, availabile in a variety of theme colours.

• Basic Auth

  Add a username and password and access pages behind basic authentication.

• Page detection

  RapidSpike searches your navigation and suggests pages to monitor automatically.

• API monitoring

  API monitor that enables endpoint uptime and response checking via PUT, POST and DELETE.

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  Live dashboards

  Use our TV Mode to view your monitors live and catch problems as soon as they happen.

• Content Checking

  Check your pages for specific content, and alert if it appears (or does not appear).

• Recommended monitors

  Not sure what to monitor? RapidSpike will suggest important ports & web page monitors for you.

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  In-depth data

  View logs of incidents and response times graphs on a granular per-monitor basis.

• Organisation

  Organise your monitors by website or by server - and reorder by different metrics, including monitor count, uptime and status.

Assurance & SEO

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  SSL monitor

  Independently monitor your SSL Certificate and receive notifications of your upcoming expiry.

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  Google Analytics

  Link your Google Analytics account and track session data over time.

• Redirect monitor

  Ensure your HTTP to HTTPS domain redirect is correctly configured.

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  Domain name monitor

  Monitor your website domain name WHOIS and get notified of any changes and your upcoming expiry.

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  Alexa monitor

  Tracks your Alexa Global Traffic Rank automatically so you can monitor improvements over time.

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  SEO statistics

  Track your ongoing SEO scores on a number of metrics, including page links and domain MozRank.

Reports

• Filters

  Comprehensive filters allow you to compare specific websites or servers.

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  Graphical reports

  Attractive, graphical reports ideal for presentations provide a full breakdown of your uptime monitors by server/website.

• Date compare

  Compare different servers or websites over specific time periods.

• Executive Reports

  Custom reports designed specifically for management, with top-level metrics and other useful data.

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  League tables

  Organise your websites or servers into a monthly league table report.

• Scheduled reports

  Configure your own regular reports delivered to addresses of your choice.

• Printer friendly

  Reports are designed to use a printer friendly layout.

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  Monthly summary

  We send a monthly summary of all your monitors straight to your inbox.

• Raw data

  Download full data logs in CSV format.