We’re delighted to announce the immediate availability of some exciting new – and much requested – features. The highlights include:

HTTP POST requests.
This enables monitoring of all kinds of interactions including login pages, registration forms, web services & APIs among many others.

Custom request headers.
You can now override any HTTP request header sent by our monitoring system. For example, you might override the Host: header in order to monitor a content distribution network / proxy. Or you might like to set the Referer: header to monitor a search optimized landing page.

Extended content match.
Allows you to match wanted and unwanted content strings in HTTP response headers. For example, you might monitor the correct functioning of a Location: […] redirect by verifying that the correct response headers were sent by your application.

In addition to our HTTP sensor enhancements, we’ve added support for encrypted SSL and TLS connections for monitoring SMTP and IMAP servers, and have also enabled encryption for generic TCP Request sensors.

This will enable you to monitor a whole range of secured TCP services that we were not previously able to establish a connection with.

All of these new features are visible when you add new sensors or modify existing sensors. Naturally no extra costs apply to these features.

We’ve also rolled out a number of usability and performance improvements, with particular focus on the monitoring sensor creation and management process. We hope you’ll find using these new features a breeze!

Naturally we’d love to hear your feedback on these features – and indeed all aspects of our service. Drop us a line via the support desk and let us know how we’re doing.

Keep your eye out for loads more new functionality in the new year!

It’s been in private beta for quite a while now, so we’re very pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Wormly Developer API. Or ‘WAPI’ for everyone who loves an acronym.

Head over to:

http://www.wormly.com/developers

And check it out. Or just click the “Developer API” link that you will now find at the bottom of every page.

We’re still in the early stages of WAPI’s development, and consequently the API coverage of Wormly’s functionality is by no means complete. With your feedback and suggestions, though, we will be increasing API coverage as quickly as possible.

So drop us a line if we’re missing something crucial to you!

We’re very pleased to announce the immediate availability of our server health monitoring alert system; a feature which has been at the top of our most-requested list for some time now.

A simple screenshot explains it nicely:

Naturally you can also read about the feature in more detail.

For existing users, simply click on your hosts’ Health Monitoring tab and follow the instructions to start using this new feature.

Feature Deployed @ 2008-11-14 09:00 GMT