Dec 21, 2022
Leave your website monitoring to NEO Sense while you enjoy the holiday season
The end of the year 2022 is coming. It’s that time of the year when you want to reunite with your families again for Christmas and New Year. Now you may be looking forward to spending time with your family and friends, but it’s natural to worry about leaving your website unattended. Don’t let that worry ruin your holiday cheer!
With NEO Sense on the job, you can rest assured that your website will be monitored and protected while you’re away. NEO Sense will keep an eye on your website and alert you to potential issues, so you can relax and enjoy your holiday without stress.
Meet NEO Sense: The web application version of Monika. It simplifies the use of Monika through an easy-to-use dashboard interface. It provides a graphical user interface for you to create probes, set alerts and notifications, and check the validity of your TLS certificates.
Using NEO Sense, you can probe your websites and endpoints from multiple locations. Below is the list of available locations currently:
- Jakarta, Indonesia
- Banten, Indonesia
- West Java, Indonesia
- Singapore, Singapore
- Tokyo, Japan
- New Jersey, United States
If you have used Monika before, you can easily import your existing Monika configuration to NEO Sense. Additionally, you can also import a HAR file, a sitemap file, or even Insomnia and Postman collection file.
Plus, you can configure NEO Sense to send notifications of incidents through your preferred communication tools, such as Discord, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, DingTalk, and many more.
You can start using NEO Sense now by navigating to https://neosense.bgnlab.id and creating an account. You will receive an email to confirm your account.
After you confirm your email, log in to the website, and you will be redirected to Create Organization page. Fill out the organization details and click Create.
You will be redirected to the Create Project page. Set your first project name, and select your time zone. By default, it will automatically use your current time zone. Click Continue to go to the dashboard.
In the dashboard, click Add New Probe button. Then, fill out the probe details such as probe protocol (HTTP/TCP), name, URL, and description. Then, save the probe by clicking the Add New Probe button.
You will be redirected to the probe configuration page. Here you can set the request method, body, and timeout. Also, you can add more requests to be chained if you want to.
You need to assign a location for the request to be run by NEO Sense. Click the Locations tab and select locations where you want to run the probe.
Once we assign locations to our probe, click the Performance Metrics. Wait for 3–5 minutes until the data show up.
You have set up your first probe! Now you will be notified if there are any incidents or recoveries through your email. You can also configure your notifications channels or alerts by clicking the Configurations button.
Closing
Let’s face it: Most of the time when holidays are coming, you have to be prepared to face incidents while you are having quality time with your families. Using NEO Sense, you can go fix it straight away if there are any incidents.
If you have questions or find issues while using NEO Sense, don’t hesitate to create an issue on Monika’s Github Issue Page. If you like this article, don’t forget to clap and share this article with your friends!
Now pack your belongings, and enjoy your holidays. This will be our last article this year, so see you in 2023!
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