monitoring

Google now provides users of its suite of hosted applications with a way to quickly check the status of Google Apps services. The new Google Apps Status Dashboard tells you whether a given Apps service is down for everyone, or just for you. A very timely launch by Google, after a couple of hours of Gmail outage nearly caused an online panic yesterday.

Akamai Technologies, the well known web content and application delivery company, now provides a service, which visualizes traffic, conditions, and threats on the internet. The data is presented via Flash applications, available from Akamai's website, for free.