Tips & Tricks: bulk importing your website monitors
Few customers who previously used competitive solution asked us if we can help them migrate their web site monitors to AppBeat. We helped them of course and in this process we also created internal tool which speeds up this migration.
If you have too many websites to import them manually, please just contact us and we will gladly assist you. Why bother with manual work if we can do it automatically!
Schedule new probe
If you have less frequent monitoring and you want to check if your website or service still has errors (and you can’t wait until next scheduled run), you can click on “schedule new probe” link as shown below:
This will add your monitoring request to scheduler que, and it will be automatically retested as soon as possible (usually this is in less than 10 seconds, but please note that page auto refreshes every 60 seconds - you may also manually refresh page for quicker result).
Ensuring that correct production version of website is deployed
It is common for web developers to have local “debug” version of website and production version.
For example, in debug version you may have uncompressed, full version of JavaScript files for easier debugging and diagnostics, while in production environment you often deploy smaller and thus faster versions of same files.
To automatically detect situation where you mistakenly published debug version into production environment, you can use free AppBeat account to monitor your web page and alert you of such mistakes.