In today's digital age, websites, and web applications have
become an integral part of businesses and organizations
worldwide. These platforms require continuous monitoring to
ensure their smooth functioning and uptime.
MonSpark
is a web application monitoring product that helps users monitor
their website's uptime, functionality, and content changes.
In this article, we will discuss MonSpark's latest
feature, the Heartbeat Monitor, which provides a customizable
and comprehensive way to monitor the health of websites and web
applications.
Heartbeat Monitor is used to check if a cronjob is running
regularly.
After creating a heartbeat monitor,
MonSpark provides a unique URL to the user, and the user's
cronjob sends requests to this specific URL. If it misses a
beat (or is known as a request), MonSpark will create an alert
about it.
Users can also choose to get
notifications if the cronjob send requests out of it’s
schedule.
With MonSpark's Cronjob/Heartbeat Monitor, users can create
customized rules based on the request data using JSON paths. For
instance, if the "cpu_usage" property is a numeric value and the
it’s expected to be less than 80, MonSpark will flag this
monitor as an anomaly (or down based on the rule configuration)
and generate an alarm accordingly if the cpu_usage property is
more than 80.
This adaptable feature makes
MonSpark's Cronjob/Heartbeat Monitor a versatile solution for
monitoring various aspects of applications, such as daily
database backups, CPU usage, disk usage, and more.
The
possibilities for configuring rules on number, string, or
boolean fields are endless, limited only by the user's
imagination.
In conclusion, MonSpark's Heartbeat Monitor provides users with a customizable and comprehensive way to monitor the health of their scheduled jobs. Using MonSpark's Heartbeat Monitor, website owners, and administrators can take proactive steps to maintain their application's optimal performance and prevent potential downtime.
MonSpark's Heartbeat Monitor checks if a cronjob is running properly by sending requests to a unique URL provided by MonSpark. If it misses a beat, MonSpark will create an alert about it.
JSON path is a syntax used to extract data from JSON documents. In MonSpark's Heartbeat Monitor, users can create custom rules based on request data using JSON path to monitor various aspects of their websites or web applications.
Yes, MonSpark's Heartbeat Monitor is a versatile tool that can monitor various aspects of a website or web application, including daily database backups, CPU usage, disk usage, and more.
MonSpark informs users through their preferred notification channels, such as email, SMS, and even voice calls (refer to the complete list of integrations) if it detects any issues or anomalies.
Yes, MonSpark's Heartbeat Monitor is suitable for businesses of all sizes. It provides customizable monitoring solutions that can be tailored to meet the specific needs of any business or organization.
