How to Monitor the Website’s Up-time with the help of Google Docs
If we have a website or a blog and want to receive instant alerts as soon as the site goes down/ becomes inaccessible to the users and like to receive the downtime alerts as email text messages on mobile phone.
Most of the website owners will use “freemium” website monitoring services to track the downtime and uptime of the sites.These services will have free plans but you are often required to upgrade the premium version for unlimited email/ SMS alerts. if we want to monitor large number of websites.
Build your own Website Uptime Monitor
We can also use Google Spreadsheets to monitor the status of the Website unlike the commercial services, Google does not impose the restrictions. We can track any number of websites and it will send to the email /text alerts.The website monitor is written with Google Scripts and is absolutely free.
How to configure Google Docs quickly to monitor the uptime /downtime of website. This is done just once and the spreadsheet will continuously monitor all the sites in the background. Some points are
1. First Sign-in to Google account and then copy the Google sheet into Google Drive. we can use Gmail/ Google Apps account to sign-in.
2. Then put site URLs in cell B2 and your email address in cell B3. If we want to receive text by message alerts, put Yes in cell B4.
3. Then we will find new Website and Monitor menu in Google Sheets toolbar. Click the Initialize and you will get a pop-up asking for authorization. Grant the necessary access.
4. Finally go to the Website Monitor menu again and to begin the monitoring process choose “Start Website Monitor”.Then Close the Google Sheet.
Finally the Google sheet will monitor the website in the background and send alerts whenever it has trouble in accessing the website. If the issue is resolved, you will get another notification saying “all’s well.”
The up/down times get logged in the same Google Spreadsheet so we can use that data to analyze the performance of your web hosting company.
How to Monitor Website works with Google Docs
There’s a simple Google Script attached to the Google Sheet Internally that does the monitoring.
The script will trigger every 5 minutes and tries to fetch your website using URLFetchApp.fetch, a Google service similar to wget /curl. If the HTTP response code is other than 200, it indicates that there is an issue with the website and an email alert is sent.
Sending SMS Alerts via Google Docs
Google Apps Script send email messages but the script employs workaround for sending text messages.
It will create an event in Google Calendar but with an SMS reminder the event is set to expire in 30 seconds and we get an instant text alert on mobile. If you are not getting text alerts on phone, ensure that phone number is associated with Google Calendar.
If we have a website or a blog and want to receive instant alerts as soon as the site goes down/ becomes inaccessible to the users and like to receive the downtime alerts as email text messages on mobile phone.
Most of the website owners will use “freemium” website monitoring services to track the downtime and uptime of the sites.These services will have free plans but you are often required to upgrade the premium version for unlimited email/ SMS alerts. if we want to monitor large number of websites.
Build your own Website Uptime Monitor
We can also use Google Spreadsheets to monitor the status of the Website unlike the commercial services, Google does not impose the restrictions. We can track any number of websites and it will send to the email /text alerts.The website monitor is written with Google Scripts and is absolutely free.
How to configure Google Docs quickly to monitor the uptime /downtime of website. This is done just once and the spreadsheet will continuously monitor all the sites in the background. Some points are
1. First Sign-in to Google account and then copy the Google sheet into Google Drive. we can use Gmail/ Google Apps account to sign-in.
2. Then put site URLs in cell B2 and your email address in cell B3. If we want to receive text by message alerts, put Yes in cell B4.
3. Then we will find new Website and Monitor menu in Google Sheets toolbar. Click the Initialize and you will get a pop-up asking for authorization. Grant the necessary access.
4. Finally go to the Website Monitor menu again and to begin the monitoring process choose “Start Website Monitor”.Then Close the Google Sheet.
Finally the Google sheet will monitor the website in the background and send alerts whenever it has trouble in accessing the website. If the issue is resolved, you will get another notification saying “all’s well.”
The up/down times get logged in the same Google Spreadsheet so we can use that data to analyze the performance of your web hosting company.
How to Monitor Website works with Google Docs
There’s a simple Google Script attached to the Google Sheet Internally that does the monitoring.
The script will trigger every 5 minutes and tries to fetch your website using URLFetchApp.fetch, a Google service similar to wget /curl. If the HTTP response code is other than 200, it indicates that there is an issue with the website and an email alert is sent.
Sending SMS Alerts via Google Docs
Google Apps Script send email messages but the script employs workaround for sending text messages.
It will create an event in Google Calendar but with an SMS reminder the event is set to expire in 30 seconds and we get an instant text alert on mobile. If you are not getting text alerts on phone, ensure that phone number is associated with Google Calendar.
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