Allgood.systems

I was recently asked if it’s possible to post a message to a Slack channel whenever the state of a monitor on allgood.systems changes (for example, a web server goes down, a job starts failing, etc.). The answer is “yes”, and it’s quite easy to set this up once you have a Slack app configured. All you need to do on allgood’s side is to add a web hook to your notification group, enter the URL you get from Slack, and define what message you want to send. ...

Since the launch of allgood.systems you were able to monitor if your background jobs, scheduled tasks, cron jobs, etc. were running whenever you expected them to be running. This was accomplished by defining an interval on allgood and then sending a request to a check-in URL at the end of your script. If the request didn’t arrive at the end of the specified interval, you would get a notification that your job is down. ...

In this tutorial I want to describe how you can setup immediate notifications whenever your scheduled FileMaker scripts stop running – for example due to a crashed FileMaker scripting engine, an error in your script or just general server downtime. I will be using allgood.systems, a monitoring platform I recently built. Creating a new Job Monitor Once you have registered on allgood.systems you can navigate to the “Job Monitors” tab to create a new monitor for the FileMaker script you would like to get notifications for. ...

TL;DR Want to monitor your websites or get notified when your cron jobs or scheduled tasks are not running when they are supposed to run? Check out https://allgood.systems. For quite some time I was planning to build some piece of software that notifies me when a web app goes down, returns unexpected results, or changes content. In addition – since it’s often hard to keep track of all the background jobs that are running – I needed and wanted something that informs me when my services stop (!) doing what they are supposed to do in regular intervals (which is often detected much later and in turns makes recovery/clean-up much harder). ...