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UptimeRobot Dashboard
This Uptime Robot dashboard gives an overview of monitoring configured using Uptime Robot’s website monitoring features. Uptime Robot is an uptime monitoring platform that provides a free tier to create up to 50 free monitors for Website, SSL, Port, and Ping, as well as heartbeats to monitor reoccurring jobs.
Challenge
Initially, this dashboard was created to give us outside-in monitoring of applications whose infrastructure is monitored by SCOM. SCOM currently has no way to monitor applications from outside the network without deploying agents as watcher nodes, which requires a fair amount of work and associated cost. This gave us a full view of our internal and external access from multiple locations with ease and minimal cost.
Solution
Using the WebAPI tile, we query Uptime Robot for information about our web tests, which we have summarized, and create a slick Uptime Robot dashboard in SquaredUp. This is an example of querying the web test data, though the other data sets are equally easy to pull in.
Dashboard walk-through
- Response Times – Bar: Displaying current response times for our web tests
- Status – Status Block: Showing health of tests, URL, and response time
- Configuration – Grid: Displaying configuration for the tests
How do I import and configure this dashboard
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Ensure you’re using Dashboard Server v5.4 or above.
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Create a Web API provider to connect with your Uptime Robot environment.
Use the following settings:
Type Simple auth Name UptimeRobot
Note: The name is case-sensitive and must be entered exactly like given here for the tiles to recognize the provider automatically. If you name it differently, you will need to select the provider manually for each tile on the dashboard.
URL Enter the base url for the UpTimeRobot API i.e. https://api.uptimerobot.com/v2/
How to create a Web API providerIn Dashboard Server navigate to the right-hand menu ☰ > system > Integrations
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Under Integrations click on Web API and choose either Simple, Basic Auth or OAuth depending on the API you are using.
About the different types of Integrations and Web API providersSimple No authentication, basic authentication (username and password in a header) or Windows authentication (configured automatically to use the application pool identity account).
Basic auth Basic authentication. Your specified username and password will be Base64 encoded automatically.
OAuth Token-based authentication according to the OAuth 2.0 standard. Many APIs use OAuth 2.0 for authorization, and will require an OAuth provider to include the additional information about how to authorize against the service.
Note: When adding an OAuth provider you may get an message that the provider is not authorized if some of the provider configuration is incorrect (for example the username, password, secret etc), or if you use a proxy it could be that the proxy is not configured. See How to configure Dashboard Server to use a proxy.
Complete the provider fields, using your API provider’s online documentation as a guide.
You are now ready to use this provider in a Web API tile (see How to use the Web API tile).
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Download and import this dashboard pack.
How to import a dashboard pack-
Download the dashboard pack zip file for the dashboard pack you wish to import.
There may be additional steps before or after the import to get the dashboard working in your environment.
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In SCOM Edition go to the top right hand menu ☰ > Import Dashboard Packs and drag the zip file into the Manual Import box.
The dashboard pack is imported and if the pack contains top-level dashboards, these will automatically appear in the navigation bar, usually in a folder called ‘Community Dashboards’ for dashboard packs from the SquaredUp Community.
If the dashboard pack also contains perspectives (see Working with perspectives), then you’ll see these when you drilldown to the relevant object. Carry out any additional steps required to make the dashboard work in your environment. These steps will be described on the download page for each dashboard. For example, you may need to create the correctly named Web API provider, create a PowerShell profile, or edit tile scopes.
Edit the imported dashboard as required.
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Add your Uptime Robot API key to the tiles.
For the tiles to work with your Uptime Robot environment, you need to add your API key to each tile.
Edit the tiles by clicking the Edit button.
Open the headers & data panel.
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Enter your Uptime Robot API key in the data field in the following format:
Name Value api_key Your Uptime Robot API key, see UptimeRobot Rest API documentation format json response_times 1
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Publish the dashboard.
How to publish a dashboardA newly created dashboard will not be visible to others until you publish it. If you made changes to an existing dashboard, the changes will only be visible to others after you published the dashboard again.
You can identify a dashboard that has not been published yet or has unpublished changes by the unpublished button at the top:
When you click on the unpublished button, you’ll have two options:
Publish will make the dashboard or changes visible to others.
Note: A newly created dashboard will appear on the menu where you created it. To move the dashboard to a different place on the navigation bar see How to edit the Navigation Bar.Discard will delete your draft dashboard if it has never been published or, if you made changes to an already published dashboard, discard the changes.
Publishing dashboards to different audiences
Find out how to publish dashboards to a subset of users using Team Folders or visible to anyone even unlicensed users with Open Access (Sharing Dashboards with anyone – Open Access).
How to create a Web API provider
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