Usually network monitoring service providers have remote agents which are located in different places of the globe. Such agents work like usual browsers; they simulate users’ activity and use all possible services and protocols. Remote agents start monitoring of your network with the frequency that you have chosen. Due to such network monitoring services you can watch your entire website accessibility and performance, so you have an opportunity to minimize possible down-time and not to lose your customers.
There is a lot of different network monitoring service providers. But the most advanced include such network monitoring tool as: File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server monitoring, Video Streaming Monitoring, Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3) monitoring, SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), SMTP/POP3 monitoring Service, DNS Monitoring Service, DNS Blacklist monitoring, Ping/ICMP monitoring Service, Port Monitoring Service, Web Service SOAP/HTTP monitoring service, UDP Monitoring Service, temperature monitoring service, custom script monitoring service. Such set of tools and services gives you an opportunity no to be nervous about your network application performance.