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Once you’re done, you will receive an email that resembles the following in the case a channel is down however, please make sure you thoroughly test your Monitoring channel before deploying it:

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Considerations

• The previous monitoring example only works for local Iguana channels as the iguana.status() function only returns the status of local channels. One way to monitor external Iguana instances is by utilizing http calls to the /status API, it will returns the exact same data as the iguana.status() function.

• This snippet of code will monitor ALL the channels in the instance. In the case you only need to monitor a small group, you may need to implement some changes to only monitor certain channels. A relatively easy way to do this would be by hardcoding some channel names in a “target” table, and add a check next to the “off” check to see if a channel is off AND is in the target table or not on line 14.