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Configure reports and notifications for availability check results

You can:

  • configure notifications for an individual check. Notifications can be received via email, phone, or HTTP requests. You can select the desired event — the check result that will trigger the notification, and specify the notification frequency;
  • configure a weekly summary report for all checks over the week. The report is sent by email every Monday and contains information about all checks performed over the last seven days.

You can also track the current status of checks on the public statistics page.

Add contact

You can receive notifications about checks via email, SMS, or HTTP requests. Email and HTTP notifications are free; for SMS notifications, you need to purchase an SMS package.

Email can also be used to receive the weekly report.

  1. In the control panel, in the top menu, click Products and select Availability check.

  2. Go to the Reports and mailings section → Contacts tab.

  3. Click Add contact.

  4. Enter a contact name; it will only be displayed in the control panel.

  5. Select the contact type — Email.

  6. Enter the email address.

  7. Optional: to receive mailings only at a specific time, select the Limit mailing time checkbox and specify the sending time in the desired time zone.

  8. Click Add.

  9. An email with a confirmation link will be sent to the specified address. To confirm the email address, open the link from the email in any browser.

Configure notifications for a check

  1. Make sure that you added contacts for which notifications need to be configured. The list of added contacts can be viewed in the control panel: in the top menu, click Products → Availability check → Reports and notifications.

  2. In the control panel, in the top menu, click Products and select Availability check.

  3. Open the Checks tab.

  4. Open the check page → tab Notifications.

  5. Select the contacts to which notifications should be sent. All notifications for the check will be sent to all selected contacts.

  6. Click New notification.

  7. Configure the notification settings:

    7.1. Select which event—the check request result—you want to monitor.

    7.2. Select when to be informed about the event (send a notification)—immediately or after several consecutive requests that return the same event.

    7.3. Select the notification frequency, for example, no more than one notification per minute.

  8. If you do not want to receive notifications when a check status changes to successful, uncheck the Notify about recovery checkbox. Recovery notifications are not sent at the moment of recovery, but at the notification frequency specified in step 7. For example, if the server recovered after one minute, but the notification frequency is set to once an hour, the recovery notification will arrive one hour after the failure notification.

  9. Click .

  10. If in step 5 you selected contacts with a phone number, make sure you have an SMS package: in the top menu, click Products → Availability check → Reports and notifications → in the upper-right corner, check the number of remaining SMS messages. To purchase additional SMS messages, click Order SMS, specify the quantity, and click Pay for service.

Configure a weekly report

By default, all checks are added to a free weekly report sent by email on Mondays. The report contains the results of all checks over the last seven days. You can exclude a check from the report when creating a check or remove the check from the report after it is created.

  1. In the control panel, in the top menu, click Products and select Availability check.
  2. Go to the Reports and notifications section.
  3. Open the Reports tab.
  4. In the Weekly report row, make sure the report is enabled.
  5. Select the email addresses where you want to send the report. If the desired address is not in the list, add it to contacts and repeat steps 1-4.