Website monitoring is essential to ensure that a website is available to users, downtime is minimized, and performance can be optimized. This custom application utilizes multiple servers (nodes) in different geographic locations to determine if a Web server is available across continents over the Internet. The proprietary algorithm reduces the monitoring frequency interval below 1 minute (this is very important when company has multiple web servers across the globe).
When Amazon store went down in 2013, the outage theoretically cost Amazon over $66,000 per minute - or nearly $2 million. The e-commerce system simulation for Kaspersky Lab was build to emulate the user and system activities of a retail store website, to determine server performance, identify areas of improvement, and to avoid potential pitfalls.