Downtime Alerts

It is a standard requirement that you host a script, code, API, or similar on a server that you expect to be accessible at all times. However, what happens if the code stops working, or the script hangs at some point? This can result in your service being unavailable, which you may not realize until much later.

That’s why you need a solution that notifies you as soon as your service is no longer available. Of course, you can’t run this on your own server – because if it hangs up, it can no longer send you the notification.

And this is exactly where pyremto comes into play. With our downtime alerts, you will always know immediately if something is not working as planned. And you’ll get notified immediately with a push notification on your smartphone, so that you can react immediately.

How does that work?

You simply set up a downtime alert, and then add to your code that it pings our server at a certain interval (or as part of the execution of your script). You can specify a minimum interval at which you expect a ping. If our server does not receive any more pings from your server over this period, we assume that your server is down or has hung up and notify you immediately.

Pinging can be added to your script with very few lines of code. It looks something like this:

remote = RemoteControl(show_qr=True, min_ping_interval_minutes=1)
remote.ping()

You can find more information and an example implementation here.

Make sure your server is running

In addition to push notifications, you can also view the status of your server in our app at any time. So you can always make sure that everything is running as it should.