Website monitoring

I think Netpath is as close as you will get without purchasing SAM. But you're still just seeing up/down and latency/packet loss on a host via specified port and not truly seeing the status of a website.

Check out the Web Performance Monitor (WPM) Web Performance Monitor (WPM) - Updated May 5, 2017

You could also just add the website's dns name as an ICMP only node as well if all you are doing is testing for ping response.  Anything more detailed than that requires SAM or WPM, or could be done with Pingdom if you prefer cloud tools.

Thank you all for the suggestions, just went with Netpath for now...at this point didn't need much in the way of detail, just the knowledge it's up or down.

Don