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My client uses a 3rd party to stream their radio station. Recently then have complaints about service outage in different global locations.

Does anyone know of a service I can use to monitor the remote audio stream coming from the streaming server?

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You could use something like Nagios or Zabbix to periodically (every minute or two) connect to the port the streaming services uses. Connection ok = good result. Connection refused or timed out = bad result and you can throw an error with whatever action... email, text message, or just logging it.

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I only have a URL like this, subdomain.example.com/jw.php?channel=mymusic - can I use this... or is there a way to tell what port is being used? – Owen Oct 7 '10 at 15:45
When the URL is up does it return a 200 OK, and when it's down does it report a 500, or something other than 200? If yes then you can absolutely use it. – Dave Holland Oct 8 '10 at 4:57
Thanks - sounds good. I might give one of those a go... although they look rather complex. I just found a php script that will retrieve headers for a remote file. If I stick it on cron I think that might do the trick. I found the script at bit.ly/9oDhX0 if anyone is looking for something similar. – Owen Oct 8 '10 at 20:45
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You can use AlertFox for monitorig a website from a real browser (Firefox, IE, etc). One of the tasks we use it for is to monitor the start of a video in a Flash player.

I would assume you can do the same for audio. Have the AlertFox script click "play" on an embedded audio player and see if/when the replay starts.

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Thanks - not seen AlertFox before - looks quite good. – Owen Oct 8 '10 at 20:48
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