Docs
The product, the telephony references, the guides, the comparisons and the tools, each page with one line on what it answers.
Product
- How Monitor by 2N5 works: fully managed
Send your circuits in one form; 2N5 verifies each one, calls them day and night, and alerts you first. Nothing to install on your PBX.
- SIP trunk monitoring with real calls
Know when a SIP trunk stops completing calls before your customers do. The SIP code as proof, retries before any alert, and escalation until someone owns it.
- 24/7 0800 and IVR monitoring
We call your 0800 toll-free number and your IVR the way a customer does, confirm the message, and alert the right team when something fails, with proof.
- Measured voice quality (MOS-LQO)
We measure the audio quality of every test call against the expected recording, not by estimating from network stats. Learn what MOS-LQO is and the thresholds.
- Alerts that escalate until owned
Alerts only for confirmed failures, by email and SMS, tier by tier, until someone acknowledges with one tap. Maintenance windows silence alerts while you work.
- Yearly and monthly telephony SLA reports
Availability of every voice circuit over the year and the month, the way Brazilian contracts are measured, in reports sent every month in English or Portuguese.
- Internet link monitoring
An agent 2N5 installs on site measures latency, packet loss, jitter, and speed of each branch's internet link, and alerts you when the link goes down.
- Security and LGPD at Monitor by 2N5
What data Monitor processes and for how long, the call audio rule, encryption, separation between customers, and how to exercise your rights under the LGPD.
- How to buy Monitor by 2N5
Pricing per monitored circuit and service, with onboarding done by 2N5. See what is included and book a demo on your own numbers to receive a proposal.
Industries, platforms and carriers
- Brazil's SAC Decree by industry: 0800 and IVR uptime
How Brazil's SAC decree reaches each regulated industry, what is verified, what to check in the regulator's rules, and how to monitor your 0800 and IVR.
- 0800 and IVR monitoring for banks in Brazil
What Brazil's SAC decree asks of a bank's phone service, what to confirm with legal counsel, and how to document that the 0800 and IVR stayed up.
- 0800 monitoring for contact centers and BPO
Running SAC for a regulated client means following that client's rules. How to document that every 0800 and IVR in the operation stayed up, client by client.
- 0800 monitoring for health insurers in Brazil
What ANS rule RN 623/2024 and Brazil's SAC decree ask of phone service, and how a health insurer documents that its 0800 and IVR stayed up around the clock.
- Call monitoring by telephony platform
Asterisk, 3CX, Intelbras, Grandstream, Cisco, Teams, Genesys Cloud, Avaya and Amazon Connect: where each one fails silently and what a real call proves.
- 3CX SIP trunk monitoring with real calls
Why a SIP trunk on 3CX stops completing calls while the dashboard stays green, where to look in 3CX for each symptom, and what a real test call proves.
- Amazon Connect number monitoring with real calls
Why a service number on Amazon Connect stops connecting or answers with an error, where to look, and what a real test call placed from the outside proves.
- Asterisk, Issabel and FreePBX trunk monitoring
Why a trunk on Asterisk, Issabel or FreePBX stops completing calls without an alarm, where to look on each one, and what a real test call catches.
- Avaya SIP and E1 trunk monitoring
Why a SIP or E1 trunk in an Avaya environment stops completing calls without an alarm, where to look at each layer, and what a real test call proves.
- Cisco trunk monitoring: CUBE, CUCM and Webex
Silent SIP trunk failures on Cisco CUBE, CUCM and Webex Calling, where to look on each one, and what a real test call placed from the outside proves.
- Genesys Cloud number monitoring with real calls
Why an 0800 or service number on Genesys Cloud stops connecting or lands in the wrong flow, where to look, and what a real test call proves from the outside.
- Intelbras and Grandstream IP PBX: silent trunk failures
Why the SIP trunk on an Intelbras or Grandstream IP PBX stops completing calls without an alarm, where to look, and what a real test call proves.
- Microsoft Teams Phone: Direct Routing and SBC
Why Teams Phone numbers stop completing calls: SBC certificate, SIP OPTIONS, codecs, Operator Connect. Where to look and what a real test call proves.
- SIP and E1 trunks by carrier: outage diagnosis
How to tell whether your carrier's SIP or E1 trunk went down, read the SIP code and Q.850 cause of each failure, and open a ticket with evidence it can investigate.
- Claro SIP trunk and E1 trunk: outage diagnosis
How to confirm a Claro SIP or E1 trunk stopped, what each SIP code and Q.850 cause points to, and how to build a ticket with the evidence the carrier looks for.
- Embratel SIP trunk and E1 trunk: when the route fails
How to tell that an Embratel SIP or E1 trunk stopped completing calls, read the SIP code and Q.850 cause of each failure, and take the proof to the ticket.
- Vivo SIP trunk and E1 trunk: how to know it went down
How to tell whether a Vivo SIP or E1 trunk stopped completing calls, the SIP codes and Q.850 causes of each failure, and what evidence to put in the ticket.
References
- SIP codes
Every SIP response code in the IANA registry, from 100 to 608, with what each one means and how a real test call reads each response.
- Q.850 causes
The 72 ITU-T Q.850 release causes, what each one means, and the RFC 3398 map between Q.850 causes and SIP response codes in both directions.
- Glossary
Short definitions and examples of telephony and voice over IP terms: MOS, MOS-LQO, jitter, SIP ALG, IVR, DID, 0800, SIP trunk, SLA and more.
Guides
- Guides
Practical guides on SIP trunks, 0800 numbers and IVRs, voice quality, telephony SLAs and error codes, written by the people who build the monitoring.
- 0800 not connecting? How to monitor 0800 and IVR
Why an 0800 line goes down without anyone noticing, how to test the 0800 and IVR from outside, what Brazil's SAC rules require and what to do when it stops.
- SAC decree and RGC: how to prove your 0800 was up
What Decree 11,034/2022 and Anatel's RGC (Resolution 765) require of phone support in Brazil, and how to document that your 0800 and IVR stayed up.
- Silent calls and one-way audio in VoIP
Why a VoIP call connects with no audio or one-way audio: NAT, SIP ALG, RTP ports, the external IP in the SDP, codecs and SRTP. How to find the cause and fix it.
- SIP trunk, 0800 and IVR monitoring: a guide
How to monitor SIP trunks, 0800 numbers and IVRs: ping, SIP OPTIONS, passive capture or a real test call, the retry ladder and the evidence that holds up.
- Telephony SLA: yearly and monthly calculation
How to calculate the availability SLA for SIP trunks and 0800 numbers, by year and by month: the formula, what 99.9% allows, maintenance and what counts as down.
- Voice quality: MOS, MOS-LQO and ViSQOL in practice
What MOS means in VoIP, how measured MOS-LQO differs from the E-model's estimate, how much jitter, loss and delay voice can take, and what to do about a low score.
- Why an 0800 number won't connect from a mobile phone
Your 0800 works from a landline but not from a mobile? The common causes, from origin blocking to routing, and how to test each one before you open a ticket.
Comparisons
- Comparisons
Honest comparisons between Monitor by 2N5 and PRTG, Zabbix, VoIPmonitor, Sipfront and the alternatives to Cyara, with sources and where each one is better.
- Cyara Alternatives for 0800 and IVR Testing
Cyara (now including Spearline), Klearcom, VistaCX and Monitor by 2N5 compared: what each one does, what it publishes, and where 2N5's managed service fits.
- Monitor by 2N5 vs PRTG: An Honest Comparison
PRTG watches networks and servers and estimates MOS from the network; Monitor really calls SIP trunks and 0800 numbers and measures the voice. When to use each.
- Monitor by 2N5 vs Sipfront: An Honest Comparison
Both place test calls and use ViSQOL. Sipfront is self-service with public pricing; Monitor is a managed service run by 2N5, with alerts by email and SMS.
- Monitor by 2N5 vs VoIPmonitor: An Honest Comparison
VoIPmonitor passively listens to the calls on your network; Monitor places real test calls and measures the voice that arrives. Here is when to use each one.
- Monitor by 2N5 vs Zabbix for Asterisk: Comparison
The Zabbix template for Asterisk reads the PBX's own status; Monitor really calls every circuit. Also compared: a home-grown test-call script on Asterisk.
Tools
- SLA calculator
Turn an availability target into the downtime it allows per year, month, week and day, or work out the SLA you actually had. With maintenance windows.
- SIP code lookup
Type a SIP response code, such as 503 or 486, and see its official name, what it means, and the page with causes, diagnosis and what to send the carrier.
Company
- About Monitor by 2N5
Monitor is 2N5's managed service that monitors voice circuits with real calls. Who we are, who writes this website, and how to get in touch with 2N5.
- Fayaz Noor, engineer at Monitor by 2N5
Fayaz Noor builds Monitor for 2N5, from the test call engine to voice quality measurement and the reports. He is the author of the guides on this website.
- Privacy Policy
How 2N5 handles personal data in Monitor: what is collected, why, for how long, who it is shared with, and your rights over it.
- Terms of Use
The terms of use of Monitor, 2N5's managed service that tests voice circuits with real calls: what it includes and what each side commits to.
- LGPD
How to use your LGPD rights over the data Monitor keeps: access, correction and deletion, and how to reach 2N5's data protection officer.
See it on your own circuits
2N5 prepares the demo with the numbers you choose. Three questions, about a minute.