Customer Self-Service Portal

Feature request - Dependency Monitors

I would really like to have an option for configuring dependencies for monitors. Consider this scenario: Lets imagine 50 (or whatever number of web applications) running at a given data center or server. If the network or server goes down, I would receive alerts/notifications for all of those web sites. It would be better if we can configure a network map (such as in Icinga) or on a simpler level, have an ability to define monitor dependencies. In my scenario described, those 50 web site monitors would be dependent upon the gateway device or server upon which those 50 sites are dependent.

Without this feature, there is potential with a catastrophic type of failure to 1) burn through all notification credits very quickly 2) overload on call folks with an unmanageable deluge of SMS and phone calls.

In my example, those 50 web sites might be dependent upon the server being reachable (ping), and that server might be dependent upon a gateway device (or switch). I am thinking this is going to be a pretty important feature for anyone monitoring more than a couple services at a single location.