GlobalWatch Features: Widget

Widget Overview

Webmetrics GlobalWatch provides a simple and flexible reporting tool that allows customers to share performance information with key stakeholders – both internally and externally.

The Webmetrics Website Monitoring Widget constantly updates every 5 minutes showing the recent availability and performance of a monitored service (website, web application or web service).

For an example of a Widget, please see right, showing the recent performance of Amazon’s Elastic Cloud.

More detailed performance reports and statistics are available by clicking on the Widget. Additionally, viewers can add to this Widget to their own webpages, using the HTML code provided on the detailed performance report page.

Activate your Widget

To activate the Widget, customers should log into their Control Panel. Each service has its own 'Widget' tab. Click on this tab and follow the instructions on this page.

Get your own Widget!

The Webmetrics Widget is provided free of charge. If you are not yet a Webmetrics customer and you would like to get your Widget to share the performance of your website, web application or web service, please join our free 15-day trial.

Examples of Widgets

To view the performance of some well known services that we monitor, click here.

Examples of monitored services:

• Amazon AWS EC2
• Amazon AWS S3
• Amazon's E-commerce
• Google Maps

For a complete list, please see the Widget Examples.

Example of the Performance of an Ecosystem
To see a more sophisticated example of the performance of a fictitious Web Ecosystem, please click here.