Automated Web Server Uptime Monitoring with Real-time Alerts
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Proactively monitor your web servers for downtime. This workflow automatically checks server availability, logs status, and sends immediate email alerts when an issue is detected, ensuring minimal disruption to your services.
About This Workflow
Ensure your web servers are always accessible with this robust automated monitoring solution. The workflow triggers every minute to fetch your server list from Google Sheets. It then performs an HTTP GET request to each server, systematically checking its availability. Successful checks are logged for uptime tracking and reporting. Crucially, if a server fails to respond or returns an error, an immediate alert is sent via Gmail to your designated team, providing the server address and failure timestamp. Failed checks are also logged for detailed analysis and auditing. This comprehensive approach minimizes downtime and maximizes your service reliability.
Key Features
- Scheduled Monitoring: Automatically checks server status at a configurable interval (defaulting to every minute).
- Dynamic Server List: Easily manage your server list by updating a Google Sheet, eliminating the need to modify the workflow.
- Real-time Email Alerts: Receive instant notifications via Gmail upon detecting server downtime.
- Comprehensive Logging: Logs both successful and failed server checks to separate Google Sheets for historical analysis and reporting.
- Error Handling: Gracefully handles errors during HTTP requests to ensure continuous monitoring.
How To Use
- Schedule Trigger: Configure the 'Schedule Trigger' node to run your workflow at your desired frequency (e.g., every minute).
- Web Servers List (Google Sheets): Create a Google Sheet named 'Server-Monitor' with a sheet named 'Server_List'. Add a column named 'Server' containing the hostnames or IP addresses of the servers you want to monitor.
- Server Alive Check (HTTP): The 'HTTP Request' node is configured to test the availability of each server. Ensure your Google Sheet provides the server address to the 'Server' variable in the HTTP Request URL.
- Web Server Alive Log (Google Sheets): This node is configured to append the server's status ('Alive'), timestamp, and server address to the 'Server_Status_Alive' sheet within your 'Server-Monitor' Google Sheet when a server is reachable.
- Server Down Notification (Gmail): If the HTTP Request fails, this node will send an email alert via your configured Gmail account. Customize the email message and subject line with relevant server information.
- Web Server Down Log (Google Sheets): In case of a server failure, this node logs the server's status ('Down'), timestamp, and server address to the 'Server_Status_Down' sheet within your 'Server-Monitor' Google Sheet for record-keeping and analysis.
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Workflow JSON
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"id": "bf49f7e8-124e-4bdb-b23e-071211996ce9",
"name": "Automated Web Server Uptime Monitoring with Real-time Alerts",
"nodes": 8,
"category": "DevOps",
"status": "active",
"version": "1.0.0"
}Note: This is a sample preview. The full workflow JSON contains node configurations, credentials placeholders, and execution logic.
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