Coming soon: multi expression rules for better monitoring experience
Very soon we will add multi expression support for Warning and Error notification rules. Syntax will be as following:
[trigger_rule: YOUR_RULE_NAME_1] EXPRESSION(S)_1
[trigger_rule: YOUR_RULE_NAME_2] EXPRESSION(S)_2
[trigger_rule: YOUR_RULE_NAME_N] EXPRESSION(S)_N
On user interface this will look something like this:
This example rule then triggers “Warning” notification which is sent to you and it is also visible in monitor log:
How to integrate AppBeat website monitor with PagerDuty?
Please follow this simple integration guide: https://www.pagerduty.com/docs/guides/appbeat-integration-guide/
How to periodically run SSH commands and trigger AppBeat alert
In AppBeat 1.4.5 we introduced support for running SSH commands where you can trigger monitoring alert by checking result of:
command exit status code (for example you can simply trigger error if exit status code is not 0) checking specific text in standard output (stdout) by running regex expression checking specific text in standard error (stderr) by running regex expression You can add new SSH monitor by clicking “Add new periodic monitor”, enter monitor name and from “Agent type” select “Run Secure Shell (SSH) command”:
How to detect if Azure SQL database is in primary or secondary role?
If you want to have highly available Azure SQL Database it is highly recommended that you configure Active Geo-Replication (this feature is available for all databases in all service tiers).
Active Geo-Replication consists of two (or more) databases in different regions, where one database is primary (read + write operations) and all other databases are secondaries (allowed only read operations). Secondary databases are automatically synced with changes in your primary database.
How to send service outage alerts to your Slack channel?
Want to integrate your website monitoring notifications with Slack? Please follow these instructions.
Step 1 From AppBeat dashboard, click on Account in the left navigation and then choose Integrations from tab menu.
Step 2 Press the Slack button which opens Add notification channel dialog. Enter arbitrary name for this channel and your Slack webhook URL.
To make sure that everything works please click Test button which should send test notification to your Slack channel.