Recently, some customers approached us asking whether Iguana can alert when a production Iguana channels is down/off. The answer is yes you can! You can use Iguana Monitoring and the Translator to achieve that goal.
How to use Translator to alert Iguana Monitoring
The main idea is utilize a polling channel to get the status of the channels using the iguana.status() or /status APIs every x amount of time. To set up a polling channel, do the following:
From the dashboard, click on Add Channel. For the source select “From Translator” and for the Destination select “To Channel” and click Start Configuring.
Add a channel name (for the sake of this example, we’ll choose “Channel Monitor”) and a description that will help you identify the channel later.
Under source, input a polling time (how often is the script called - in other words, let’s say you start the channel at 3:00 PM and set the polling time to 1800000 ms which is 30 minutes, you the channel will check at 3:30 PM then again at 4:00 PM and so on… You will receive an email at most every 30 minutes or every x amount of time depending on how long you set the polling at).
1000 ms is 1 s.
How to Setup Email Notification in Iguana Monitoring
Considerations
Security: encrypt password/ don’t use password