In a previous post, I showed how to insert timers between steps in an http request to do some basic profiling. Peter Bengtsson contacted me with some enhancements to the original code. I took his enhancements and added some more of my own to create a neat little web monitoring utility.

It uses Python's httplib to send a GET requests at regular intervals to a URL and adds some timing instrumentation between each step of the request/response. Results are printed to the console.