# What is a Monitor? What are the lists of Basic and Advanced monitors?



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- Posted at: almost 7 years ago
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## Comments
### Comment 1

Monitor, in this context refers to a Website, Web application, Server, FTP Server running on a specific host/port. Site24x7 checks these monitors to make sure your business applications are running well. For pricing, Site24x7 classifies these monitors as Basic and Advanced.

The different basic monitors that we provide are as given below:

Website (HTTP/HTTPS), DNS Server, Ping, FTP Server, SMTP Server, SSL/TLS Certificate, Domain Expiry Monitoring, SOAP Web Service, REST API, Port (Custom Protocol), POP Server, Windows/Linux/FreeBSD/OS X Servers (agent based), Microsoft IIS Monitoring, Windows Server Backup Monitoring, VMware ESX hosts, Cron/Heartbeat, VMware Datastore, Azure Monitoring, EC2 per instance, RDS per instance, DynamoDB per table, SNS per Topic, ELB per node (Classic, Application or Network), S3 bucket and S3 object endpoint (after free limits), CloudFront Distribution, SQS Queue, Kinesis Data Stream, Kinesis Firehose Delivery Stream, Kinesis Analytics Application or Kinesis Video Stream, Elastic Beanstalk Environment, Direct Connect connection, AWS Managed VPN, API Gateway Stage or API Gateway Resource, ECS Cluster or ECS Cluster Service, Redshift cluster or Redshift node, Elastic File System, Simple Email Service endpoint, Step Function state machine, Lambda function, ElastiCache Memcached cluster, ElastiCache Memcached node, or ElastiCache Redis node, WAF web ACL, Customer managed KMS CMK, CloudSearch Service Domain, Route 53 or 10 Hosted Zone records, Elasticsearch Service Domain

The various advanced monitors we provide are:

Web Transaction (Browser) Monitor (monitor multi-step web transactions in your service), Web Page Speed (Browser), Website Defacement, Mail Delivery monitoring (basic POP and SMTP port monitoring is a Basic monitor), FTP Transfer Monitoring, Each JVM, .NET or Ruby application instance in Site24x7 APM Insight (a.k.a Application Performance Monitoring), Advanced Windows Apps - Microsoft SharePoint, BizTalk, Active Directory, Failover Cluster, Hyper-V, SQL and Exchange Monitoring

##### Comment Metadata
- Posted at: almost 7 years ago
- Author title: Marketing Analyst at Site24x7




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[Website Monitoring](https://www.g2.com/categories/website-monitoring)

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