We have published first version of our website speed test API, and to make it easier to use we also published simple command line interface tool which uses it. Source code for AppBeat CLI tool is written in C# on top of cross-platform .NET Core platform and is available on GitHub. Installation instructions are available on our Website Speed Test page. For example, if you would like to test page speed from Asia you would simply run following AppBeat CLI command:

Do you want reliable website monitoring but don’t want to spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars per year? You have come to right place! We have carefully analysed existing monitoring solutions and built AppBeat from scratch with three main goals in mind: reliability, efficiency and ease of use. We offer you multi-location monitoring, plenty of built-in check types, third party integrations with Slack and PagerDuty (available also in Free plan), industry-standard encryption of your check settings and other sensitive data, powerful rule customization, noise reduction to prevent false alarms, free public status page and much more!

Today we published new version of AppBeat with following changes: you can now disable outage notifications for built-in Admin contact by double-clicking it (Contacts / Users) paid users can now select continents for preferred test location: Asia, North America, Europe (Account / Check settings) browser tries to remember collapse state of “Individual check statuses” in “Live status” view added “Public status / Status Updates” - you can now add manual status updates for your visitors “Delay alerts” is temporary disabled and removed from user interface.

Today we published AppBeat 1.3.6 with following features: “Account / API Access” - possible to call first AppBeat REST method which returns status overview of your system. This allows you to create your own simple client. We will add more useful methods in future. security improvement: same application session can not be used from multiple IP addresses we are now displaying question dialog when new web client is available (you can also postpone version upgrade) –> this will be visible first time when next version arrives back-end upgraded to .

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.