How to set up free alerts about problems with your site
HostTracker provides the ability to receive alerts about the inaccessibility of your site via instant messaging services as an alternative to SMS. First, it's free, and second, reliability increases. About features of use - under a cat.
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Since today the vast majority of IT and business workers (namely, these people are usually users of monitoring systems) use smartphones both for personal needs and for work - it’s not a problem to set yourself a mobile client of a popular messenger. This will allow you to receive alerts about the status of checked sites for free and save some money, which may be especially important if there are quite a lot of sites and employees responsible for them. Or vice versa - if the minimum monitoring package is used (monitoring interval - every 30 minutes), which, together with free alerts, makes the service completely free.
Another point worth mentioning is reliability. Duplication of messages by different methods reduces the risk of accidentally skipping the alert, or prevents the situation when a critical alert will not be delivered due to some kind of technical failure. The only inconvenience is the need to permanently connect to the network, but such programs work even at low connection speeds, and being in a big city, you can not worry about this problem.
HostTracker currently offers two options - Skype and Hangouts (formerly GTalk). Setting them up does not take much time.
The only caveat is that before adding a contact, you must add the HostTrecker mail bot address to your contact list. He is listed on the contact form:
After creating a contact, you need to enter a confirmation code to make sure that the address is entered correctly and messages arrive.
In the near future we plan to develop mobile applications. Then there will be another push-notification, as an alert option. But this is a completely different story and this will be written in the corresponding article.
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What is it for?
Since today the vast majority of IT and business workers (namely, these people are usually users of monitoring systems) use smartphones both for personal needs and for work - it’s not a problem to set yourself a mobile client of a popular messenger. This will allow you to receive alerts about the status of checked sites for free and save some money, which may be especially important if there are quite a lot of sites and employees responsible for them. Or vice versa - if the minimum monitoring package is used (monitoring interval - every 30 minutes), which, together with free alerts, makes the service completely free.
Another point worth mentioning is reliability. Duplication of messages by different methods reduces the risk of accidentally skipping the alert, or prevents the situation when a critical alert will not be delivered due to some kind of technical failure. The only inconvenience is the need to permanently connect to the network, but such programs work even at low connection speeds, and being in a big city, you can not worry about this problem.
How to set up notifications?
HostTracker currently offers two options - Skype and Hangouts (formerly GTalk). Setting them up does not take much time.
The only caveat is that before adding a contact, you must add the HostTrecker mail bot address to your contact list. He is listed on the contact form:
After creating a contact, you need to enter a confirmation code to make sure that the address is entered correctly and messages arrive.
Future plans
In the near future we plan to develop mobile applications. Then there will be another push-notification, as an alert option. But this is a completely different story and this will be written in the corresponding article.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/251703/
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