How do you get notified that something is down?

My servers are setup to let me know when something fails and another part of the server takes over, or when something fails over to a different server entirely... but the other day I had a network failure and didnt find out until my cloud based wireless management solution notified me that it could no longer communicate with our APs. I tried to remote access anything on the network and couldnt.
What can I use to remotely monitor my infrastructure so this doesnt happen again? What does everyone else use? I have a couple linux vps I use to code/test things on and could setup something simple like if unreachable send email... would that work? I guess I'm unclear on what possible solutions there are.  
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